Poverty in Europe | "Poor Europe" - Documentary on European unemployed and social exclusion (2017)

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  • Why 119 million people in Europe live under the breadline today. How could this happen? The reality of deprived children, unemployed young adults, and indigent workers spreads all around the Union. What does Europe do for them? Visiting young unemployed people in Ireland, Italy and Portugal, this film investigates beyond the social and economic aspects and outlines how this situation impacts the politics.
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    In Europe you’re considered poor if you have less than 60% of the average national income to live. That’s 119 million people. Is there a European Master plan to change their lives for better - or have they simply been left behind? Do we have to accept the structural phenomenon of unemployed young people, poor children and the new working poor? What is the political prize Europe will ultimately have to pay?
    Poor children, unemployed young adults and the working poor are the three groups with the highest risk of poverty. The EU tries to counter their situation with the program “Europe 2020“ - a huge offensive meant to bring 25 Million Europeans out of poverty. The film investigates if “Europe 2020“ actually works.
    In the EU, 26 million children live with the threat of poverty and social exclusion. When comparing European policies, you realize that child poverty is best fought with free childcare and schools open to everyone - like in Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands. But in South and Eastern Europe it all looks pretty different. Even in Ireland every third child is menaced by poverty.
    Even though the European economy is recovering from the recession, 20% of all young people who want to work don’t find a job. The young generations still suffers most from the current economic crisis.
    Some of the main reasons for poverty are Europe’s increasingly precarious working conditions. Relentless competition, new technologies and the transformation of the service industry are some of the reasons for this development. It is not only that minimum wages are being lowered, but layoffs are made much easier, which contributes to this social decline.
    We dig deeper, asking the Economic and Social Committee in Brussels, the representatives of concerned countries and the council what their strategy is. We visit poor children in Ireland, the working poor in Portugal and unemployed young people in Sicily in order to unfold the inner workings of their poverty. An investigative film that is ready to push in its search for answers.
    © 2017, A Docdays Production
    Licensed by First Hand Films

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  • @alexsteven.m6414
    @alexsteven.m6414 Před rokem +666

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    • @bernisejedeon5888
      @bernisejedeon5888 Před rokem +1

      Government policy has thrown the future under the bus for decades. The day of judgment is near. I predict an 80% drop in the stock market. Investors will abandon stocks in favor of real estate. There will be no money in banks... You must devise a strategy for survival.

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      @yolanderiche7476 Před rokem +1

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  • @jainepal4844
    @jainepal4844 Před 3 lety +442

    Lots of folks missing the main points here,, "portugal spent more on interest paymentz than on healthcare system", poverty is not accidental, it is part of a process that keeps labour costs low and hands control of government to an unelected group of technocrats and bankers.

    • @cakeisyummy5755
      @cakeisyummy5755 Před 3 lety +13

      Portugal does have a lot of Debt.

    • @kekessalman
      @kekessalman Před 3 lety +17

      What's that got to do with unemployment? Would Portugese gov't employ millions of youth with that money if they wouldn't pay their debts?
      The main point is governments and people have been irresponsible. Current social security costs and pensions aren't sustainable.

    • @jainepal4844
      @jainepal4844 Před 3 lety +33

      @@kekessalman you have such a naive perspective, the very same financiers that provided bailouts were the same who manipulate market forces that cause negative growth and recession and thus the need for bailouts, the same then swoop to purchase state controlled enterprise at minimal cost, just look to venuzuala to see what happens when you refuse the terms dictated, look to the UK economy after 2 decades of austerity, national grown year on year since, wages worth 20%less in real terms,, maybe you prefer the south asian model, strong economic growth, especially for the lucky 5 per cent, the rest carry on scraping by in poverty.

    • @kekessalman
      @kekessalman Před 3 lety +7

      ​@@jainepal4844 That's Portugese government's irresponsibility and populism.
      The financiers don't have an incentive in putting a country in recession, in fact it's the opposite. It's the people, entrepreneurs and businessman (not government) that will create jobs and growth.
      Nobody gives a shit about state controlled water distribution in Venezuela or telecoms operator in Portugal etc, these are not profitable to anyone, those days were 30 years ago. There's no conspiracy, it's not the lenders' fault if governments and people live beyond their means.
      Of course if your competition is prepared to scrape in poverty you'll have to do the same. Or just reject the free trade and exclude yourself from world economy, see how it goes..

    • @jainepal4844
      @jainepal4844 Před 3 lety +13

      @@kekessalman your a fool, whose sells the unaffordable credit, who markets unrealistic aspirations, how many people control the media, in fact how many control a huge percentage of wealth and assets, oh that all the entrepreneurs, in reality who creates the systems and conditions for employment, the government, the ones controlled by lobbyists paid by financiers etc,, For sure the supply of water, power etc, nessessary infrastructure was never suppoed to make profit, was never created to then be sold as part of asset sale to be controlled by unelected technocrats to benefit the offshore tax dodging scum aka global finance.

  • @jambrenn7843
    @jambrenn7843 Před 3 lety +172

    Italy's Careless management of EU funds actually means a lot of the monies intended for Youth were used to line personal bank accounts of Italy's bureaucrats.

    • @helenaquin1797
      @helenaquin1797 Před 3 lety +3

      And tecall the mafia being mentioned..

    • @jan22150
      @jan22150 Před 2 lety +15

      Corruption is rampant in these southern parts of Italy, seems to me they have not changed a bit.

    • @evan7743
      @evan7743 Před 2 lety +9

      No country can dig itself out of poverty - no matter how much outside money is thrown at it - unless it reigns in corruption to levels where enough trust in the functionality of the system is built to attract, maintain, and grow investors and businesses. Germany was smart to tie funds to real results. Compare how Italy used/abused their EU funds with how Ireland used it. Italy was short-sighted (and corrupt) in going for short-term gain (by diverting funds from its intended use) at the cost of long-term growth through investing in education and job growth of its youth. Culture plays a large role in a country’s development.

    • @plinyelder8156
      @plinyelder8156 Před 2 lety +3

      _Monies_ isn’t a word. Money is already a mass noun.

    • @jan22150
      @jan22150 Před 2 lety +7

      @@evan7743 and we're not even talking about African countries, South American countries or Asian countries.
      Most countries are so poor because of the greed and corruption of their leaders.

  • @urbanhooligan3787
    @urbanhooligan3787 Před 3 lety +128

    word of advise: If you're not working--don't have children. It's not fair to the kid, the person that has to help support you and your kid.

    • @sebas8225
      @sebas8225 Před 3 lety +7

      Pretty much, and start thinking on Van life.

    • @joedias7946
      @joedias7946 Před 3 lety +15

      Very good advice.I wish your
      Papa thought of that.

    • @conniekabasharira7084
      @conniekabasharira7084 Před 3 lety +10

      @@joedias7946 perhaps his papa and mama were working

    • @thomasb8658
      @thomasb8658 Před 3 lety +10

      So you think because someone is poor he/she is not allowed to have children?

    • @urbanhooligan3787
      @urbanhooligan3787 Před 3 lety +12

      @@thomasb8658 not true I grew up poor and I have a brother and 2 sisters. It really sucked growing up, and it is a great disadvantage, but you can overcome it in a country like America. Not so much in other poorer countries. You'll end up subjecting your child to undue punishment like child labor and in many places they even make the kids take up arms.

  • @radiohill
    @radiohill Před 3 lety +736

    It can't be all tech. They need to teach trades in schools. Old school tailoring, shoemaking, printmaking, decor, etc. So many countries need to bring back industry to their countries or this won't turn around. Don't wait for the government or the corporations to do it.

    • @selg3032
      @selg3032 Před 3 lety +82

      Well said. When I tell people about the olden days they laugh and its the same people that are starving now . All professional with business. Covid bankrupted them. Oh shame. At least I can survive with old methods. Sewing my own clothes and painting my own house and growing my own veggies. All I learnt in the good old days . God bless

    • @TrollinOn22s
      @TrollinOn22s Před 3 lety +7

      Well it takes tech to run drones which will deliver stuff and AI.

    • @marilynryan7822
      @marilynryan7822 Před 3 lety +6

      So right you are RADIO HILL!

    • @angelaberni8873
      @angelaberni8873 Před 3 lety +49

      People need to understand and believe that there is an "agenda" that intends to make people poorer WORLDWIDE !!! This is to better control us. It's been happening for a long time but people believe all that they hear on mainstream media. It's more than time that they wake up,keep TV off and start doing their own indipendant research on Internet. It's all there in black and white !!!

    • @havanaroad2750
      @havanaroad2750 Před 3 lety +16

      It is tech, media colonialism and brainwashing, we forgot our roots. A circle of wanting money and not be autosuficient, soon they will departure to Mars and leaves her with climate change, no job ND as a farm

  • @denisdimitrov5051
    @denisdimitrov5051 Před 3 lety +400

    Hello from Bulgaria. I wish to you all, to prosper, be succesfull, work what you love and be better at it each day. Fight corruption as hard as you can with each day. Crime is also a problem. Work an honest living with honest ways, be good to clients and society. This is the only way. Not only for EU , but for the world, to be peacefull and decent for living in it. Be healthy and strong!

    • @os2841
      @os2841 Před 3 lety +11

      Corruption is the cause and crime is the result. Think about things before you write them. Everything is clear.

    • @denisdimitrov5051
      @denisdimitrov5051 Před 3 lety +18

      @@os2841 English is my 4th language, sorry. I hope you understood what I mean.

    • @higreentj
      @higreentj Před 3 lety +5

      The US idea of giving everyone of voting age 100 dollars (160nB Bulgarian lev) to be spent on the political candidate of their choice is a good idea as it would stop or reduce corporate interests influencing politics. Bulgaria has a proportional representation voting system which is the best voting system to produce a strong democracy, but Bulgaria would still benefit from democracy vouchers as America, Canada, India, and the UK would benefit from switching to the Bulgarian voting system.

    • @artistaprimus7080
      @artistaprimus7080 Před 3 lety +5

      A true and simple message that many wont accept as the answer. They want an easy fix, quick money with minimal work.

    • @camillesubida5029
      @camillesubida5029 Před 3 lety +1

      I agree

  • @dmixdup
    @dmixdup Před 3 lety +63

    When the definition of poverty is simply a mathematical formula that includes a certain percentage of people, there will always be poor people. How about defining by standard of living?

    • @dinsel9691
      @dinsel9691 Před 3 lety +2

      Or just aim to keep inequality in check so everyone benefits... including those less fortunate, who may have been born with low iq or other disabilities

    • @JosedeJezeus
      @JosedeJezeus Před 2 lety +2

      Ignorance is the greatest poverty!

    • @freedomordeath89
      @freedomordeath89 Před 2 lety

      good luck defining the standard of living without a mathematical formula, genius.

    • @freedomordeath89
      @freedomordeath89 Před 2 lety +1

      @@dinsel9691 keeping inequality in check doesnt work. They tried it, it was called socialism. it didnt make everyone happy, the contrary, it made everyone miserable. Keep everyone down is not a solution. We need to RAISE everyone up. Equality of OPPORTUNITY not outcome. I want WORK, I dont want state's handouts.

    • @dmixdup
      @dmixdup Před 2 lety

      @@freedomordeath89 You didn't read the rest of the comment. Try again.

  • @SelfMakeover
    @SelfMakeover Před 3 lety +307

    And then 2020 came, and with it the pandemic. I hope to see a follow-up documentary!

    • @apricotcomputers3943
      @apricotcomputers3943 Před 3 lety +28

      I think we all know what that documentary will be..
      It would be very depressing!

    • @antpoo
      @antpoo Před 3 lety +4

      You mean ‘pandemic’

    • @mariethompson6198
      @mariethompson6198 Před 3 lety

      @Urban Lady do u know,how it is, since Covid-19?

    • @jettramel
      @jettramel Před 3 lety +4

      I thought this was the follow up, thought it was 2021? Damn.

    • @augustt8282
      @augustt8282 Před 3 lety +4

      @@jettramel this filmed before 2020

  • @heatherfeather9951
    @heatherfeather9951 Před 3 lety +127

    What is happening in Italy is starting to happen here in the US.

    • @erickaholman1371
      @erickaholman1371 Před 3 lety +60

      It has been happening for a long time, since the 1950s, when children stopped being taught real skills, cooking, sewing, carpentry, cleaning, and so much more, all children know how to do is watch tv and play games and if they graduate from college they have a degree in English or sociology meanwhile the Chinese and Hindu are engineers, doctors, and high tech professions.

    • @abbyarnold4477
      @abbyarnold4477 Před 3 lety +21

      Tech industry is destroying many livelihoods.

    • @ndukulusudikucho_
      @ndukulusudikucho_ Před 3 lety +8

      @@erickaholman1371 same to Canada

    • @shawnaweesner3759
      @shawnaweesner3759 Před 3 lety

      @@erickaholman1371 👍🇺🇸

    • @wontbefooledagain9400
      @wontbefooledagain9400 Před 3 lety +8

      @@erickaholman1371 that’s just not true.

  • @stephenhamer1702
    @stephenhamer1702 Před 3 lety +406

    When you outsource manufacturing to China and other asian countries the jobs are lost.

    • @grahamt5924
      @grahamt5924 Před 3 lety +50

      Its pretty obvious but we have all enjoyed cheap imports.

    • @higreentj
      @higreentj Před 3 lety +16

      China now has an unemployment problem because of automation.

    • @jonathanharper9991
      @jonathanharper9991 Před 3 lety +41

      It's all about profits they don't care about their own country anymore

    • @shawnaweesner3759
      @shawnaweesner3759 Před 3 lety +4

      @@jonathanharper9991 👍🇺🇸

    • @BillyP13
      @BillyP13 Před 3 lety +29

      Get the youth to work harder than the Asians , rather than expecting social security to pay for you .

  • @thenesslife
    @thenesslife Před 2 lety +23

    Coming from Africa I never consider the poverty in Europe. In most Africans mind Europe is a financial safe haven so this is a very mind opening doc.

    • @calicojungle4983
      @calicojungle4983 Před 2 lety +1

      We, that is... the world can't continue down this path for too much longer. It's the collective breath we all hold waiting for the inevitable, as the rich urinate into the universal wind. Taunting the pendulum. Here in the US.

    • @29DPT
      @29DPT Před rokem +1

      Same here and I was born in Europe but live in USA and I hate USA I want to move to Europe Europe is rich

    • @29DPT
      @29DPT Před rokem +1

      Or it was

  • @33Jenesis
    @33Jenesis Před 3 lety +74

    Most factory and craft jobs can’t sustain a living in first world if they havent been outsourced to 3rd world contries. Not all young people are born with STEM aptitude. The non stem types become relegated to service or retail jobs that still don’t sustain a standard of living.

    • @Shmidtk
      @Shmidtk Před 3 lety +8

      Can you apply same logic to times of first industrial revolution, that not all people have machinery aptitude and people in agriculture have less and less pay? Then majority transformed into industrial workers somehow.

    • @Navy35
      @Navy35 Před 3 lety +17

      Then the native population has to compete with 3rd world immigrants for those low paying jobs. To add insult to injury, the ruling class will blame the victims for their circumstances

    • @mela6046
      @mela6046 Před 3 lety +1

      Jen 33 is missing 1 crucial item of our elders=" cohesiveness"...family...town...country...& feeling of doing good according to God for our immediate neighbors in need ...neighborliness...Our elders took care of their immediate needs...Try that formula today!... ppL that "need help" will STILL have their HANDS OUT for begging instead to the Govmint ...& the Govmint will say," our office is ONLY open Mon to Fri ...U will need a social worker slip...& there is a 45 day waiting period ...to "EVALUATE YOUR CURRENT POVERTY/ SITUATION" ..."NEXT ! number 10,772"..take a number please...to get help? ...No! silly to just wait it in line !...Take a number ... :))

    • @higreentj
      @higreentj Před 2 lety +3

      The EU is considering the introduction of a universal basic income. I do not see any other way of distributing the wealth machines are creating.

    • @abcdef-kx2qt
      @abcdef-kx2qt Před 2 lety

      @@Shmidtk :
      plow boi !!!!

  • @lechtwardowski7520
    @lechtwardowski7520 Před 3 lety +67

    Hello there. I live in Poland. There was huge unemployment in Poland ten to twenty years ago, reaching about 20%. Now unemployment in Poland practically doesn't exist, our economy consumed over 1 million ukrainian employees and wants more.

    • @zbigniewsiarkiewicz438
      @zbigniewsiarkiewicz438 Před 3 lety +2

      Podziekuj to Jaroslawowi Kaczynskiemu bo za PO i PSLu to dzieci chodzily glodne do szkoly .. Poz z Kanady ....

    • @lechtwardowski7520
      @lechtwardowski7520 Před 3 lety +7

      @@zbigniewsiarkiewicz438 Drogi panie, jako były wyborca PiS zapewniam, że podziękowania za to co mamy należy składać milionom Polaków ciężko pracujących na ten sukces, a nie Kaczyńskiemu, który grzebie w ich kieszeniach coraz głębiej, żeby tylko zapewnić sobie wygraną w następnych wyborach.

    • @adamedwardsnj3800
      @adamedwardsnj3800 Před 3 lety +2

      @@zbigniewsiarkiewicz438 jak jest tak dobrze to czemu nie wracasz do kraju??

    • @ho-wy4lh
      @ho-wy4lh Před 3 lety +11

      btw, many polish leaves Poland for working outside

    • @ho-wy4lh
      @ho-wy4lh Před 3 lety +17

      @@123litera4 that is true, Ukrainian is not in EU, btw, it gives side effect for Ukrainian, bad for their economy.
      EU is failed to distribution the welfare of her members, they just move poverty from one country to another one country.
      I believe the real reason why rich countries like Germany and Scandinavian supported to expand EU into the east just to give them cheap labor

  • @Sofi00
    @Sofi00 Před 3 lety +159

    the minimum pay in my country is 3eur/h. That's what workers in supermarkets, retail stores and other low entry level occupations earn. No wonder people can't survive, especially if the cost of living is higher than what they can earn...

    • @sirojadesign6561
      @sirojadesign6561 Před 3 lety +33

      Everywhere, in Holland, you earn 7, but the costs and taxes are more than three-quarters of you're income. Holland has the highest taxes of all Europe and small incomes, age discrimination. At 40 you hardly get a job, and the income you can only pay the cost. We have food banks, but not everyone is allowed to go there. And more people who are getting homeless, no houses. The EU and governments are telling lies to immigrations people, they should fall for it. It is helping nobody.

    • @Sofi00
      @Sofi00 Před 3 lety +21

      @@sirojadesign6561 7€ minimum is only when you’re 18, it goes up to 10€ by 21, but of course the system is not the best, however, it’s much better than in some other EU countries..

    • @ralphemerson497
      @ralphemerson497 Před 3 lety +5

      Minimum wage is not meant to be a sustainable wage. It’s entry level. Out of school. Transitioning from one job to another. People no longer have the drive to attain higher wages because it requires hard work and determination. It’s safer and easier to try to make a living from minimum wage and spend time bitching about it.

    • @ho-wy4lh
      @ho-wy4lh Před 3 lety

      @Sofia G where are you from

    • @Sofi00
      @Sofi00 Před 3 lety +32

      @@ralphemerson497 then, if everyone will fight to attain higher wages, who will work for the service industry, construction, transportation, etc? And what about marginalized people who do not have the means to attain higher education? Minimum wage needs to be sustainable otherwise you’ll either have people living in poverty or no one who will do the “dirty” jobs.

  • @anderslarsen4912
    @anderslarsen4912 Před 3 lety +46

    I am working poor. Have been since the start of my working life. I have two university degrees which is no guarantee for not being poor. The undermining of the bargaining power of unions have going on for years. I expect this to continue since politicians are part of the problem, not the solution. Soon everybody will be a "supplier" to their current employer, making out invoices. This is where we are heading.

    • @turboredcart
      @turboredcart Před 2 lety +2

      So the university enabled you to be poor

    • @lunafringe10
      @lunafringe10 Před 2 lety +4

      the EU promised a lot, kept very little. That was to be expected.

    • @royharper2003
      @royharper2003 Před 2 lety

      degrees in what and where do you live?

    • @solamano7239
      @solamano7239 Před 2 lety +6

      If you want to pursue a university degree in a specific subject, they should tell you upon application what the prospects of finding a job in that field are. Too many graduates are wandering around unemployed because they studied hard and got a degree that doesn't fit in modern society. I like the German model of apprenticeships, this is practical and realistic.

    • @royharper2003
      @royharper2003 Před 2 lety +2

      @@solamano7239 people need to do their own research

  • @tshandy1
    @tshandy1 Před 3 lety +184

    What worries me when I hear big central planners (EU, "experts," etc.) talk about poverty is that they almost always want to solve this problem with horrible solutions: higher taxes and regulations which don't make poor people wealthy, but such costs certainly get heaped on the backs of the average working man and woman.

    • @plottwist1733
      @plottwist1733 Před 3 lety +6

      If you've watched any of the World Economic Forum's videos, you will know their solution to it will be to bring in an era of neo-feudalism where we all live in pods and live off bugs.

    • @vilvianamentor646
      @vilvianamentor646 Před 2 lety +9

      WELL PORTUGAL WENT TO POVERTY since they entered in europe union,

    • @oskar6607
      @oskar6607 Před 2 lety +9

      Indeed! Poverty is the result of economic backwardness and lack of economic growth. That’s why poverty is worst in the EU states which are poorest, have the most highly regulated labor markets and lowest growth (Italy, Portugal, Greece, etc). Having bureaucrats in Brussels starting ever more ’projects’ and ’initiatives’ isn’t going to solve anything, maybe nly make them worse.

    • @oskar6607
      @oskar6607 Před 2 lety +6

      @@vilvianamentor646 no, Portugal became richer after joining the EU. However, it should not have joined the Euro.

    • @moetocafe
      @moetocafe Před 2 lety +1

      exactly - adding more governance to the process is adding more poison... it ends in a big fail

  • @alexfraser81
    @alexfraser81 Před 3 lety +138

    The reason why in lots of middle class people’s in many countries is falling back because cost of living is too high and what we made is not enough to maintain our welfare. The problem is the government’s policy help the people’s or the just help big corporations and themselves. We the people are misled by this system and was giving a fake hope that if we work hard or get higher education we’ll get a better opportunity but sad enough that not the case.

    • @jettramel
      @jettramel Před 3 lety +6

      Feel for you & get it, the US will not be far behind.

    • @sebas8225
      @sebas8225 Před 3 lety +5

      The truth is in State abuse of Land, Speculators for politicians and Lawyers amongst the issues of Inflation, Hiperinflation and the Self-centered Boomers having their way are ruining things, the generation has caught up, we wont be Flexing our lives for scammers, the Boomers need to go out of politics, law.

    • @MattBiden
      @MattBiden Před 3 lety +2

      Sounds like a peasant based mentality where the state must provide for you. Are you European by any chance?

    • @donpeace894
      @donpeace894 Před 3 lety +1

      @@jettramel really ? There is a job surplus just lazy youth

    • @Whatever_dude
      @Whatever_dude Před 3 lety +1

      @@sebas8225 no not boomers fault just lazy millennials

  • @nicolegonzalezmarrero629
    @nicolegonzalezmarrero629 Před 3 lety +265

    So we’re just not going to talk about the role central banks played in all of this?

    • @peterbacke
      @peterbacke Před 3 lety +8

      banks only think on money they don't want lose money they borrow out because they make money on poor people when economy run bad bank want money back even when its bad time they can help people if they want but again they don't want lose money they want always go plus sad thing money its always the problem

    • @JMGEntertainmentify
      @JMGEntertainmentify Před 3 lety +19

      @@peterbacke Its more than that. Its not money, its control of human existence.

    • @higreentj
      @higreentj Před 3 lety +5

      The fiat currency system allows money supply to increase through debt. If we had this monetary system one hundred years ago there would of been no great depression and second world war.

    • @williamkern7931
      @williamkern7931 Před 3 lety +7

      Good to see these comments coming up more and more.
      Guess we'll be joined on the front lines when the time comes.

    • @sebas8225
      @sebas8225 Před 3 lety +8

      The fault lies in the politicians, who sold out the population to speculate on their banker friends.

  • @carsonchan5102
    @carsonchan5102 Před rokem +9

    The deterioration of family and neighborly relationships perhaps is one of the largest factor of poverty.
    Modern media emphasizes individuality and consumerism because those ideas are profitable.
    Folks really need to pool in their resources to buy land. Cooperate and coordinate efforts to maximize synergy.
    Trust and have faith in one another. Unity is strength.
    There will never be enough resources for everyone to live a lavish life. Its best we accept our fate and start living like our ancestors.
    Village common folk. Grow potatoes, raise some chickens, talk gossip with the other villagers. Keep it simple.

  • @ricardo6606
    @ricardo6606 Před 3 lety +3

    Excellent and enlightening video!

  • @rbrooks2007
    @rbrooks2007 Před 2 lety +20

    I wonder how far the E.C. has got with combatting the one trillion euros that disappears each year through corporate and political fraud in the upper echelons? That would be useful for many poor people.

  • @dennisroland5654
    @dennisroland5654 Před 3 lety +3

    Very well done. Thank you.

  • @frozenbbfan
    @frozenbbfan Před 2 lety +47

    The Irish banks paid back the bailout money years ago, a fact you conveniently omitted. In fact, nearly all banks that were bailed out as part of the 2008 crisis paid back their bailout plus interest. Its one of the few times a government investment actually made money.

  • @shelleyphilcox4743
    @shelleyphilcox4743 Před 2 lety +12

    The difficulty with agricultural work is that it is seasonal, but your living costs are not. Farmers also recruit professional teams who are prepared to essentially keep moving from country to country, and are paid low cash wages and live on site, but at a cash amount that is still a decent living in the lower living cost country the team comes from. It means that people spend huge amounts of time away from family and friends instead of being able to work in the industry at home, and in higher living cost countries noone can sensibly afford to work to this model.

  • @TheYuri64
    @TheYuri64 Před rokem +10

    If we go to the root of the problem we will find that it's the lack of morality that brings poverty to a nation.

  • @spearmint1569
    @spearmint1569 Před 2 lety +24

    The Italian family, just the mom has a job, but her daughter doesn't work, and she gets pregnant, I thought that happened just in latin america.
    Irresponsible young adults.

    • @leonhenry4861
      @leonhenry4861 Před 2 lety +1

      @Jorge Garcia it shouldn’t bother you what other people choose to do in their spare time.

    • @luciefahy9989
      @luciefahy9989 Před 2 lety +1

      Happens everywhere ! I’m in Cyprus and I see it ! It’s the 21 century

    • @leonhenry4861
      @leonhenry4861 Před 2 lety +1

      @@luciefahy9989 Exactly, if everybody got on with there own lives and not bothered what others are up to unless they're harming somebody what does it matter if she has kids and not married, she's not breaking the law

    • @karllarsen8797
      @karllarsen8797 Před 2 lety +2

      @Jorge Garcia
      Well, I am pleased to learn that it is no longer a MAJOR scandal in Sicily to have a child out of wedlock. This new nonchalance of Sicilians can only mean that the homosexual Catholic Church is finally losing its grips on the moral compass of the average Sicilian. True morality has everything to do with one's integrity and honesty, and has nothing to do with one's sexual organ.

    • @jonathanandrew2909
      @jonathanandrew2909 Před 2 lety

      You can’t deny lovers the opportunity to manifest their love in the form of a child! Especially when it’s a full moon.

  • @Plmora
    @Plmora Před 2 lety +28

    I'm from Kenya in East Africa, the topic of poverty isn't new especially having been brought up in such environment. I have studied the trend of poverty, it doesn't matter the Nation or continent where you are.
    Our generation (the youths) I think we have missed a point, hoping to be rich overnight and thinking technology is the only way...we have ignored the main industries that built the current nations we have. I think the systems of education and mentorship must change, let young people go traditional, into agricultural and farming.
    We can't wait government to tackle this alone. However, the government must also move faster to facilitate and create enablers for this generation. Poverty is becoming an endemic, it doesn't choose a country nowadays.

    • @gabriela3174
      @gabriela3174 Před rokem

      Morgenthau plan

    • @29DPT
      @29DPT Před rokem +1

      You are right it’s everywhere Europe Asia Canada USA

    • @Plmora
      @Plmora Před rokem

      @@29DPT Hi Marissa, it's very true. I think it's a culture or believe that a certain region is only affected. Leaders should wake up and accept the reality, like relook their regions with honesty

    • @OmmerSyssel
      @OmmerSyssel Před rokem

      Start using something called condoms!

    • @nfvjgrofgjvoldlkgvlo
      @nfvjgrofgjvoldlkgvlo Před rokem +1

      @Luis everything will be

  • @flightmode7655
    @flightmode7655 Před 2 lety +8

    it's very simple. cut the funding of every single politician by 1/3 and you will be surprised how much money is actually left for the people.

  • @nuzy1601
    @nuzy1601 Před 2 lety +14

    wow this open my mind😯I thought all Europe is rich since they outsource all their manufacture in Asia but the youth suffer the most with no job

    • @OmmerSyssel
      @OmmerSyssel Před rokem

      Don't confuse the situation among inefficient Latinos with Northern EU...

  • @fluentpiffle
    @fluentpiffle Před rokem +8

    If we ever want such a thing as a genuine ‘civility’ or ‘society’ to occur, we must, absolutely, concede that it is only genuine people who will ever be capable of such a phenomenon.
    The pretentious ‘society’ that greed creates simply does not develop the capacity for genuine civility..

  • @marleneflourentzou680
    @marleneflourentzou680 Před 3 lety +63

    Some of the main culprits are importing low quality shoes, clothes, food, etc etc from China and Asia, not supporting higher quality but more expensive local producers and purchasing goods online from other countries
    I remember being in Athens many years ago being able to purchase the most wonderful handmade leather bags and other local products, now these shops gave mostly been replaced by Fast Fashion stores

    • @happyface96
      @happyface96 Před 3 lety +9

      What's the point of luxury items if prices are increasing while income is stagnating? Middle income families will have no choice but be penny pinchers bc expenses are going up. Cheap goods keep coming bc there is an ever growing demand for it. Don't out of touch?

    • @jito29
      @jito29 Před 2 lety +3

      China products today is not low quality anymore but more cheaper. China will kill the world soon.

    • @ehm2943
      @ehm2943 Před 2 lety +1

      @@jito29 yah. They catch up fast and complain less. I think the language barrier is holding them down. Also I am not crazy with that dictator for life thing. It’s like having a king or pope. What if u have bad king or bad pope life fake Francis. The suffering will be long assuming there is still a country or church left.

    • @bellad.1274
      @bellad.1274 Před 2 lety +2

      Yes, i agree! Same in Canada. There is no more manufacturing- it is serviced based employment.

    • @evan7743
      @evan7743 Před 2 lety +2

      Globalization is a dirty word for many, but it does not have to be. A country can leverage its niche strength to command a higher price in the global market, then use its profits to circulate the money internally, thus supporting its local economy and raising the local’s economic buying power. As previously poor countries grow wealthier, new economic classes grow that can now afford to buy these high quality products. Countries like Greece and Italy have built a strong reputation on the quality of their products that they should protect and market. Don’t trade it for short-term gain of inferior cheap products just to make profit in the moment. It will cost them their reputation and in the long run, customers such as Marlene Flourentzou. Greece was indeed well known for its high quality leather goods, excellent olive oil, olives, and more. Same for Italy, whose high quality, exquisite artistic sensibility and craftsmanship can be seen in its architecture, fashion, cinema, and food. Market and sell your niche strengths to a global consumer base. But you also need to reduce internal corruption and aspects of your culture that promotes and accepts it.

  • @annieteo7169
    @annieteo7169 Před 2 lety +15

    In Singapore, we have Insitute of Technical.Education.(ITE), training young students in hairdressing, car mechanic, nursing, and many trades.

    • @rrajan5476
      @rrajan5476 Před 2 lety +1

      Such a freaking small nation. Like a boutique

    • @thinklogically4316
      @thinklogically4316 Před 2 lety +2

      Your country is doing great. But, your comparison is not correct.

    • @Tonyx.yt.
      @Tonyx.yt. Před 2 lety

      every nation in europe has such schools but most of students are lets says "leftovers" because every good student is pushed to join a more "prestigious" but almost useless for work, high school

    • @29DPT
      @29DPT Před rokem

      Does Europe have this

  • @mikenijboer1292
    @mikenijboer1292 Před 3 lety +35

    I thought the corona funds were meant to help people in these situations? What is the use to get in so much debt if it won't help the people who need it the most? I'm dutch, I gladly pay for supporting these people. Where is all the money going? You fight corona, if you give people enough income to survive staying home.

    • @renatowarrens5552
      @renatowarrens5552 Před 3 lety

      IFR is 0,3% mikey dus 99% geneest gegarandeerd. WHO cijfers zwart op wit.
      En idd 99% heeft dus ook 0 baad bij een of ander vaccine dat Oficieel enkel als nood plan is goedgekeurd door een paar elitaire geld 💰pakkers.
      De middenklasse is wereldwijd vernaait
      De elite is sterker en rijker geworden.
      En half de wereld draait knetter van de paranoia, niet onderbouwde maatregelen.
      Die nota bene indirect 500 miljoen mensen wereldwijd in de miserie en een levenskwaliteit bieden gelijk aan de dood.
      Europa heeft op 16 maanden schulden gemaakt voor de komende 100j
      En dat voor een griepvirus
      Waanzin en het einde is nooit meer in zicht.
      Het plebs is al lang verloren door hun eigen naïviteit en blind vertrouwen van hogerop.
      Dat hogerop in geen 2000j aan onze gezondheid heeft gedacht is bijzaak.
      Nu plots wel 😂🤘🏻
      Fuck Europa ik verkoop toch alles voor 2025 en ben ciao naar de Caraïben
      Lekker op Curaçao chillen jongeuh
      Weg van dit verdronken continent

    • @sebas8225
      @sebas8225 Před 3 lety +5

      The funds fell into the Swamp, you have to drain the Swamp first, then give the funds.

    • @francescapowell1538
      @francescapowell1538 Před 3 lety +2

      Wasn’t this filmed before the Coronavirus Pandemic?
      Therefore any funds provided from the fall out of the pandemic wouldn’t have existed yet.
      Moreover don’t think those funds are going to help that much especially not in the long run once things really start getting back to normal.

  • @jackpaul51
    @jackpaul51 Před 3 lety +106

    Honestly, the formation of the EU is for countries like Germany and France to get cheap labours from the less developed regions. How can countries like Greece, Portugal or Italy compete with Germany and France? What does these countries have? Research and development basicially don't exist. Hoping money to rain from the sky is not a smart option. When the time is good, countries like Portugal gets more share of the profit, but now time is bad, and it just make countries like Germany and France more likely to exploit thiis system.

    • @once_upon_a_time__
      @once_upon_a_time__ Před 3 lety +5

      Good point

    • @jacqueline8559
      @jacqueline8559 Před 3 lety +26

      France has more unemployed people, people relying on food banks than they ever gave. They are not rich and thriving. I know, I live here. In our town the factory, the main employer of this town, surrounded by countryside and hours away from the nearest cities, closed, putting the majority of workers into poverty. No other jobs are around here. Food banks thrive, and get more demand since Covid, but people cannot afford to donate, so food given out is scarce. My husband volunteered there. It was mostly desserts, and out-of-date vegetables and fruit. Only good for soups and juices. So now learn more facts about France being powerful

    • @jackpaul51
      @jackpaul51 Před 3 lety +7

      @@jacqueline8559
      First of all, I respect your husband's courage and kindness for volunteering there at the food bank.
      I understand things there are not good up there. At times like these, the only countries that do well are those resource-rich countries like Australia or Canada. France is not resource-rich. Europe is not resource-rich in general. So it will take a blow.
      From an outsider's point of view, in general, the life quality in France is still better than in many other European countries though?

    • @ergolibersum
      @ergolibersum Před 3 lety +10

      What are you even talking about? The EU is trying to save them for a decade. If Greece, Italy, and Portugal were not in Eurozone, do you think they'd had their GDP per capita increased this much? I'm from Turkey. We're not in the EU but our minds leave the country for Germany and France as well. You don't need to be in the EU for that. It starts by asking "What do the Germans do so well that they don't depend on other countries to save them?"

    • @jackpaul51
      @jackpaul51 Před 3 lety +7

      @@ergolibersum Well, relative to Turkey, they are doing well. If I were born in India or central africa republic I would think of Turkey as a heaven.

  • @Aussie_Truth
    @Aussie_Truth Před rokem +7

    Very informative documentary - I had no idea it was this bad in Europe.

    • @OmmerSyssel
      @OmmerSyssel Před rokem

      Chaos in corrupt southern Europe isn't representative for entire EU!

    • @dezafinado
      @dezafinado Před rokem +2

      It's been bad for decades. The Italian-American community in the US came mostly from southern Italy. There has been a constant flow of Portuguese workers to northern Europe since the end of WW2. Not discussed in this doc but Greece is also another dysfunctional nation. So far, Ireland is doing better due to:
      1. Expats return to invest in their homeland.
      2. Hub for tech sector (low tax).

  • @akisapostolidis5997
    @akisapostolidis5997 Před 2 lety +8

    How can you make a documentary about poverty and unemployment in EU without mentioning Greece?

    • @user-sf9mc4ok3m
      @user-sf9mc4ok3m Před 2 lety +1

      Πες τα ρε Άκη, και εγω αυτό σκεφτηκα πρώτα-πρώτα. Εσκεμμένο, κι αυτό;

    • @paulgitau6055
      @paulgitau6055 Před 2 lety +1

      But that's true Greece is fucking poor totally poor.

    • @venumames6921
      @venumames6921 Před 2 lety

      Αυτό κι αν είναι! Το πρώτο που σκέφτηκα! Πλάκα μας κάνουν;

  • @R_McGeddon117
    @R_McGeddon117 Před 2 lety +11

    In the UK an illegal immigrant gets three times more money off the State than a pensioner gets and they wonder why there's bloody poverty

    • @marknewton6984
      @marknewton6984 Před rokem +1

      Fight back!

    • @R_McGeddon117
      @R_McGeddon117 Před rokem

      @@descendanttravels7639 £64,000 per year per criminal. Governments own figures. Dimwit

  • @MelissaR784
    @MelissaR784 Před 2 lety +39

    The more we hear about "Sustainable Development Goals" of eliminating poverty (which is impossible) the more people around the world are slipping into poverty. The homelessness in America is growing by leaps and bounds.
    This can't be a coincidence.

    • @reggie69.
      @reggie69. Před 2 lety +3

      People are talking about it more because theirs more poverty and wealth inequality day by day

    • @MelissaR784
      @MelissaR784 Před 2 lety +1

      @@reggie69. And how long have we've heard Socialist politicians talk a leveling the playing field? While, not only does their policies NOT close the gap between the have and have not, but makes it wider?
      I'll take Trumps economy of producing enough of our own oil/energy so the low income can afford $2 a gal gas and feed their families with meat prices as low as they were 15 years ago, any day.
      This same inflation happened under Obama. It hurt the low income the most.

    • @reggie69.
      @reggie69. Před 2 lety +4

      @@MelissaR784 your example is literally the most American problem ever as a European I don't think poor people are going to be hurt by fuel prices because we actually have good cheap transport

    • @MelissaR784
      @MelissaR784 Před 2 lety +1

      @@reggie69. Anyone living within a budget gets hurt with higher prices. Not just the poor even when they have to eat too. This happened under Obama too.

    • @starvictory7079
      @starvictory7079 Před 2 lety +1

      @@MelissaR784 Obama was president of the US, not Europe (and long since gone).
      He is not relevant to the subject.

  • @hmhhmh5127
    @hmhhmh5127 Před rokem

    I am glad to hear that. 😊

  • @Luminousplayer
    @Luminousplayer Před 2 lety +10

    any country that "fixes" a shortage with emergency credit without addressing the core problem, is dooming the population.

  • @johdo9953
    @johdo9953 Před 2 lety +11

    If internship doesn't work, then government should promote self employment. Provide a combination of grant and loan to fund small businesses. Forget about minimum wage. You need to remove all barriers to start a business, the biggest barrier is cost - rent and labor costs. You can have many food trucks driving around the city or station near the universities. You can have one hot dogs stand, one selling fries and burgers, one selling snacks, cookies and muffins, and other selling coffees or specialty drinks. You can build infrastructure to promote inner travelers or tourism within and across cities. Or other businesses to perform easy and cheap paint jobs, or small repairs. Once everyone has a job, big or small, then the economy will start rolling. It's like China, labor costs are low, everyone has a job even though some living in poor condition. It's only a stepping stone. If everyone willing to spend $5-10 to your business, there's opportunities for growth. If unemployment is at 38% and no jobs out there then there's simply no chance to begin.

    • @katbeatriz1362
      @katbeatriz1362 Před 7 měsíci

      Italy has an oppressive tax system, socialist government that overburdens productive adults to fund their overgenerous pension system, stringent business laws, insane hiring restrictions, unions and professional organizations create barriers to new graduates seeking jobs, add that to a shrinking population and a government that has a habit of misappropriating the budget and raising taxes… let me know your solution given the real life conditions in Italy

  • @SunnyRayFAmit
    @SunnyRayFAmit Před 2 lety +15

    For as long as companies (manufacturing, particularly) keep on looking for lower labor market from other countries like those in South East Asia, there will be no work opportunities for the younger generation of Europe. The politicians cannot do anything about this business trend.

    • @AOMVideoProductions
      @AOMVideoProductions Před 2 lety +3

      As manufacturing went over seas in order drive down the cost of products, businesses forgot to ask themselves the most important questions. How many TVs does the working person want? How many things does the working person want? When is enough? Then when they have huge inventories in warehouses full, they can't move products because people no longer can afford them or they just don't need those luxury goods.

    • @freedomordeath89
      @freedomordeath89 Před 2 lety +2

      Manifacturing is mechanzied. They are leaving asia too. The problem is deeper. We dont NEED as many low skilled workers as before. We never will, you can't change history. The problem is: what do we do with millions of low skilled workers who can't be trained for various reasons. This is a huge historical problem. And I dont have a solution. No one has.

    • @AOMVideoProductions
      @AOMVideoProductions Před 2 lety

      @@freedomordeath89 I understand that certain aspects of manufacturing are mechanized and I'm well aware about how society perceives low skilled workers. I see homeless Americans around my city and videos about the homeless situations across the country and around the world. It's also terrifying how one moment you could be in a middle class job and then have it disappear on you. UBI may be a method to help people out but its such a controversial subject that mentioning it gets people suspecting you. I have no solution as well with how to help people not just in this country but others around the world. Great insight btw.

    • @freedomordeath89
      @freedomordeath89 Před 2 lety

      @@AOMVideoProductions This is not about homeless, or pity parties. homeless are mostly drug addicts, that's another issue. We are talking about the working poor. millions of people working full time and not earning enough to live decently.
      It's a global problem for unskilled workers
      No UBI is a silly idea that will never work, all the people who claim UBI will save us, actually never did the MATH. Even the smallest UBI's will cost MORE THAN THE CURRENT US BUDGET. How is the US gonna spaend that much? Where are thye going to find that money? No UBI guru-snake oil seller will ever tell you that with precise numbers.
      Just do the math.
      12.000/year for 210 million adult citizens=3 trillions=90% of the current US budget.
      And 12k a year is not even ENOUGH to survive well in the US.

    • @yt_nh9347
      @yt_nh9347 Před 2 lety +2

      There is no future in manufacturing as things get more automated, except of course in skilled roles like mechanical or electrical engineering. The point is to not try to find opening in dead end fields but to build valuable skill sets in preparation for future and current world, i.e. Engineering, medicine, legal.

  • @johnstibal2131
    @johnstibal2131 Před 3 lety +26

    Lol, if these governments haven't figured out how to solve some of these "problems" by now, then I would posit, that they never will. However, it does create a great environment for the political class to maintain their bureaucracy and power.

    • @sebas8225
      @sebas8225 Před 3 lety

      They never will until the Sword of Damocles lays on top of them.

  • @wildthing3455
    @wildthing3455 Před 3 lety +33

    I dont believe in growth. I believe in maintenance.

    • @frederickmuhlbauer9477
      @frederickmuhlbauer9477 Před 3 lety +3

      Growth is a deception It’s actually inflation and currency devaluation

    • @frederickmuhlbauer9477
      @frederickmuhlbauer9477 Před 3 lety

      @Abc Def Read my comment and use your brain kid

    • @sebas8225
      @sebas8225 Před 3 lety +3

      Exactly! Maintenance is far more important than Growth, who cares if you grow up to be 10 mettres tall if you die in the next year or get crippled?

    • @ianmiles2505
      @ianmiles2505 Před 3 lety +1

      Very true.

  • @syedadeelhussain2691
    @syedadeelhussain2691 Před 2 lety +13

    If it was so difficult to create jobs in the first world, imagine how arduous it might be to do the same in third world countries.

    • @12gmkk29
      @12gmkk29 Před 2 lety

      Russia and Eastern Europe are not third world countries
      They are second world countries

    • @syedadeelhussain2691
      @syedadeelhussain2691 Před 2 lety +2

      @@12gmkk29 When did I mention these countries by name?

    • @MK-lm6hb
      @MK-lm6hb Před 2 lety

      @@12gmkk29 ... with certain Third World characteristics. Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan are oligarchic, militaristic and dictatorial kleptocracies. The standard of living is lower than suggested by official GDP (PPP) statistics because the money there is either stolen, wasted or spent on the police and the army.

    • @solamano7239
      @solamano7239 Před 2 lety +1

      I think that colonialism has certainly helped. Education, training and paying a pittance. An upper class always arises, copying business models and exploiting the less fortunate.

    • @thatundeadlegacy2985
      @thatundeadlegacy2985 Před rokem

      Well its far easier, because they havent exploited all their resources for 1000 years they have some left

  • @francescogiordano5544
    @francescogiordano5544 Před 3 lety +26

    I never seen all this poverty and unemployent in italy, but in this last15/ 20 years things got worst year by the year

    • @unconventionalideas5683
      @unconventionalideas5683 Před 2 lety +1

      Maybe you live in the North of Italy? They said it was much worse in the South of Italy.

    • @solamano7239
      @solamano7239 Před 2 lety

      @@unconventionalideas5683 - Everywhere in rural areas and not only in Italy, the youth are fleeing to the cities. Old folk are left struggling in crumbling houses trying to produce fruits, crops and it's a dying situation.

  • @chillyman7340
    @chillyman7340 Před 3 lety +30

    As a unemployed adolescent myself who is struggling in 3rd world country. I know that the government won't fix my problems and the thing I hate most is that the people in power who complain about us the youth not having jobs is that they themselves do nothing. I know that there is not future in a job but a career, which if I am talented or skilled at something there are no funds from the government to help me create wealth for myself or to create jobs for the unemployed ,the government doesn't do anything lol.

    • @prepperjonpnw6482
      @prepperjonpnw6482 Před 2 lety +9

      Its not the job of government to create jobs or provide money for people to create jobs. It’s up to each person to either get a job working for someone else or to start your own business. If you need money to start a business then you create a business plan that details what you intend to do and how much money it should make etc. Then you take that to a bank or a venture capital firm and get a loan to start your business. That’s how its done because if you wait for the government to do anything for you then you will be waiting for the rest of your life. I’m not going to say America is perfect but I will say that the reason America in the past was so good is because it was full of people that came here with nothing but dreams and they did whatever they had to do to make it come true. People came from all over the world and carved out a life for themselves. I know people who came here from Vietnam in the 70’s and 80’s with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Today they have a business and own their home and put their children through college.
      The role of government is to stay out of the way and simply protect peoples rights that’s all.

    • @chillyman7340
      @chillyman7340 Před 2 lety +7

      @@prepperjonpnw6482 I 100% agree with you this why I am doing my own thing, this why I started a youtube channel and doing lost of other stuff on the side. I am struggle at the moment lol so progress is very slow lol, thanks for replying to my comment :)

    • @frenchustube
      @frenchustube Před rokem +2

      @@prepperjonpnw6482 when you come from a developed country like the US with a lot of opportunities I agree with you. But when you live in a Third World country, it’s a total different ballgame. You don’t have access to the same resources that you do in the US.

    • @OmmerSyssel
      @OmmerSyssel Před rokem +8

      @@prepperjonpnw6482 not true, some of the most successful and societal most important businesses here in Denmark were subventioned by the government and later turned into healthy independent business.
      There is often more than one solution to reach a goal..

    • @monikamichaelis-iw3to
      @monikamichaelis-iw3to Před rokem

      Dont put blame on government. It is you that has to work to get some where. Dont expect to get a high paying job if you have no education.

  • @alexcarter8807
    @alexcarter8807 Před 3 lety +22

    Poor in Italy looks like Heaven compared to poor in the US.

    • @onengkusumah2905
      @onengkusumah2905 Před 3 lety +6

      so? , both looks like heaven compared to poor in south east asian countries.

    • @tshandy1
      @tshandy1 Před 3 lety +5

      Yet the standard of living is higher overall in the U.S. than in Italy.

    • @junephillips1174
      @junephillips1174 Před 3 lety +3

      Same here in South Africa this is because of poor governs

    • @justinamusyoka4986
      @justinamusyoka4986 Před 3 lety +2

      Do not forget the poor in Africa...🤭

    • @frederickmuhlbauer9477
      @frederickmuhlbauer9477 Před 3 lety

      Take a look at Slab City in the desert of California 50 degrees Celsius with no utilities or water

  • @blazinhot6873
    @blazinhot6873 Před 2 lety +6

    So what you're saying is that the Union of European nations enriched the wealthier countries and increased the disenfranchisement of the poorer nations. Im shocked....

  • @kopynd1
    @kopynd1 Před 3 lety +4

    we were all poor years ago, no telephone car clothes handed down , poverty is brought on yourself, i want everything, live a simple life, if you dont have the cash, dont borrow to buy its easy

  • @RuiConstantino
    @RuiConstantino Před rokem +2

    I've seen the big family concept being destroyed. We used to live in houses with grandparents and others. Sharing our home with family. This was destroyed. We were separated with the concept that we desperately need to be divided - make our own life ... more like make our own debts. And now a lot of people is forced to live and share houses and even rooms with complete strangers.
    The housing problem in Europe is one of the biggest issues.
    In my country, Portugal ... the main issue is the toxic dependence on tourism and the selling out of everything to outsider rich people who end up inflating the housing market to the roof. There are ruins being sold in the 1 million margin. In a country where the minimum wage is not even 800.

  • @aniksamiurrahman6365
    @aniksamiurrahman6365 Před rokem +2

    1 out of 4 and that's 2 years ago! What's the situation now?

  • @ivst3655
    @ivst3655 Před 3 lety +61

    Corruption and selfishness are the reasons for poverty everywhere.

    • @thatundeadlegacy2985
      @thatundeadlegacy2985 Před rokem

      thats just stupid, there are so many homeless in california because its more profitable.
      they get paid to be homeless and make a killing on begging.

    • @ivst3655
      @ivst3655 Před rokem

      @@thatundeadlegacy2985 really? If you think it is so great - feel free to join them.

    • @thatundeadlegacy2985
      @thatundeadlegacy2985 Před rokem

      @@ivst3655 Wish i could but America isn't the world.

    • @svennielsen633
      @svennielsen633 Před rokem

      Put a name on it: the root cause of problems is the EU! It is the corrupt commissars with there extreme high salaries that press every drop of blood out of the rest of the continent. They pay more for one cup of coffee in Brussels, Luxemburg and Strasburg than I use for food in an entire week! In stead of paying to the EU Commission and other institutions the money should be invested at home. In Italy they would be able to finish those bridge projects shown if they did not have to pay the money to the parasites in the EU.

    • @jamesbrown99991
      @jamesbrown99991 Před rokem +2

      Corruption destroyed family businesses. It was once the role of the family to support its members, not the government and corporations.

  • @rachelweston3306
    @rachelweston3306 Před 3 lety +55

    This Italian bureaucracy is ridiculously incompetent. I often complain about my own government but Italy takes it to a whole new level lol

    • @paolorocchi7151
      @paolorocchi7151 Před 2 lety +8

      Millions of Italian agree with you

    • @anon8428
      @anon8428 Před 2 lety +5

      @@paolorocchi7151 Millions of Argentines agree with you

    • @plinyelder8156
      @plinyelder8156 Před 2 lety +1

      But why? They have everything they need to succeed. Why do they fail?

    • @casanova8762
      @casanova8762 Před 2 lety

      @@plinyelder8156 🤣🤣

    • @goldsteinist
      @goldsteinist Před 2 lety +3

      @@plinyelder8156 corruption and maffia. the perfect destructive combo. Also applies to hungary, romania, poland not only Italy.

  • @SuperPAC130
    @SuperPAC130 Před 2 lety +6

    As an Asian, whenever I buy a pack of Balconi, I think about that one Italian factory worker that I financed €0.001 of his/her salary to keep him employed. My best wishes to you friend whom I will never meet.

  • @whoknows6776
    @whoknows6776 Před 2 lety +7

    Unemployment of young people in particular is the greatest economical crisis of the 21st century.

    • @PersonOfBook
      @PersonOfBook Před rokem

      A lot of jobs are outsourced to 3rd world countries to reduce cost, leaving fewer jobs.

  • @MrHellweasel
    @MrHellweasel Před 3 lety +35

    Value added tax is one of the greatest scams in Europe. You are effectively being taxed on money that was already subjected to income tax. The problem is not that there is not enough money. The problem is that it is mismanaged.

  • @chickendogful
    @chickendogful Před 3 lety +12

    One thing that I noticed in this video, is that in spite of the hard times, Italians do not seem to be losing any weight, so in spite of all the problems at least they are still eating well

    • @JessicaMiller-pc4dj
      @JessicaMiller-pc4dj Před 3 lety +10

      Carb heavy meals are usually the most filling as well as being the least expensive and are also the most calorific. I know you were probably just being snarky, but you must try harder 😉.

    • @khankrum1
      @khankrum1 Před 2 lety +2

      @@JessicaMiller-pc4dj Bigots are barely noted for their brains Justine.

    • @leoaksil4085
      @leoaksil4085 Před 2 lety

      Macaroni is not eating well.

    • @jonathanandrew2909
      @jonathanandrew2909 Před 2 lety +1

      Stress hormone (cortisol) also causes fat accumulation.

  • @chrisalugbuo467
    @chrisalugbuo467 Před rokem +1

    8:30 the baby feeding himself so heartwarming.

  • @btakesa
    @btakesa Před 3 lety +13

    Too many social workers, too many people want government jobs, over education so people will not take lower jobs and to high welfare. Take what ever job is offered to help put bread on table, do not wait for your dream job with all the entitlements you expect through your education.

  • @ralphemerson497
    @ralphemerson497 Před 3 lety +16

    I find it fascinating that those in poverty or going thru rough financial hardships continue to have children.

    • @ashuu3
      @ashuu3 Před 3 lety +1

      This is what poverty get more children, look to Africa. Mother and father often disregard the life of infant for their enjoyment. Look for these things before popping out namely education, housing, good healthy food, decent quality living, good home environment so children find study and hard work natural to them, . Future generation struggle because they have no one nearby to aspire to, they take mobile, iPad tv because nobody study or reading books in their home. Parents need to study themselves before popping out innocents. A good home environment is the key to success which I have not got ".........poverty is the future whose parents don’t think before doing. It should be crime to bring children to poverty.

    • @tchirn
      @tchirn Před 3 lety +4

      Your bigotry displays your ignorance, for instance in the case with Italy, it has the lowest birth rate in Europe! So much for your bigotry!

    • @ralphemerson497
      @ralphemerson497 Před 3 lety

      @@tchirn Maybe, but what is Italy’s acceptance rate with immigrants and how many of those unemployed, unskilled, low educated are spitting out children?

    • @dickielarue1451
      @dickielarue1451 Před 3 lety

      But...It felt sooooo good didn't it Verona...🤣😅😂🥳

  • @personofearth5076
    @personofearth5076 Před 3 lety +49

    All the money has gone to immigration and for anyone who kept welcoming and insisting on immigration, well, it's your fault and you have no right to complain. Of course no one will see it that way and go into complete denial. Our countries were not like this before mass immigration.

    • @onlycorner5565
      @onlycorner5565 Před 3 lety +4

      its a shame you believe in your brain
      the univers is an growing organism ,why would it invent life on land and in the sea in unseen numbers if it cant reproduce its energy requirements
      trees live 7000 years on the energy of the sun and we with our stupid brain make people feel worthless because an number isnt matching up when they want to eat

    • @sirojadesign6561
      @sirojadesign6561 Před 3 lety +11

      That is right, because the more people looking for one job, The fewer hours you can make, to earn some income. It's like sharing a cake, the more people need a piece the smaller the pieces get until crumbs are the only ones left and then zero. The citizens of a country know that. European Union doesn't care as long as they can earn money on each head, which comes in the EU. Take Afrika, Middle east, very big countries, take Italy or Holland, very small even tiny. And the infrastructure of the countries can't handle so many people, it has to stop.

    • @liteney
      @liteney Před 3 lety +7

      @@WindofChange2023 No, Europe does not need africans and middle easterners to work labour jobs, we have machines to work the labour jobs, and entrepreneurship has never been discouraged. Are you an idiot?

    • @liteney
      @liteney Před 3 lety +5

      @@WindofChange2023 Triggered? Just stating facts. And we lived under islamic colonization before for 8 centuries from the year 711 to 1492. We did not fall to islam than and we will not do now.

    • @abdueltio8512
      @abdueltio8512 Před 2 lety

      @@liteney you didnt fall because of islamic kindness and european leaders are apperantly think that they need the midlle eastern youth otherwise they would block them. do you really think that even the most leftist of european leaders want any outsiders if they had any other choice and no tech doesnt solve everything it is being used to its fullest atm

  • @Sumie141
    @Sumie141 Před 2 lety +1

    Italian abroad here... It hurts hearing those words... We left because we couldn't find a job in Italy! I studied in Uni, I speak 3 languages...In Italy?
    I couldn't find any jobs.... Is this correct? Mr. Minister or whoever you are SHAME ON YOU!

  • @wonderingstar29
    @wonderingstar29 Před 3 lety

    yes you right it will come back as the situation of moisture being trapped is there...but you can see when it begins and start with treatment which will last upto 4 to 6mths

  • @kiturselassie813
    @kiturselassie813 Před 3 lety +7

    This world is a very sad an dark place

  • @marvwatkins7029
    @marvwatkins7029 Před 2 lety +7

    The producers don't seem to know when adolescence ends.

  • @suzuranyakuza
    @suzuranyakuza Před 3 lety +8

    its 2021 now with covid.... unbearable to imagine the situation now

  • @maily8388
    @maily8388 Před 3 lety +8

    I have been In Lisbon, Bellam tower in Lisbon and the Columbus monument which was tourist regions so it’s not bad. And the Castle. 38% unemployment in Italy is extremely high, no wonder Romans in Rome was so very aggressive, restaurants could double charged customers and Jack up the price higher that the menu prices. Small town in Italy was better than Rome.

  • @bstr-ey6wl
    @bstr-ey6wl Před 2 lety +9

    Italy :Apprentice business in France is unpaid slavery for up to 2 years. For jobs technique you can learn in less than 2 weeks, like salesman, kitchen aid, hotel reception, housekeeper. At least for these jobs, apprentice business SHOULD BENOUTLAWED. it may work in Germany and Switzerland, but not in France. Portugal : what about the chinese loans? How many Western European countries have debts with China? Haïti copy and past soon to be...

    • @lunafringe10
      @lunafringe10 Před 2 lety

      why didnt you wave apprenticeship and did everything in 2 weeks then? you made me laugh, sorry. Bill Gates dumped college and developed PCs. Sold computer programs he ordered some place else

  • @chloewaller1589
    @chloewaller1589 Před 3 lety +13

    I live in Europe, in Tuscany, this country is broke!

    • @davesbainrps6909
      @davesbainrps6909 Před 3 lety

      Communist banks

    • @simonrafia4519
      @simonrafia4519 Před 3 lety

      Better than others countries..

    • @tchirn
      @tchirn Před 3 lety

      Then get out!

    • @brunopimenta8204
      @brunopimenta8204 Před 2 lety

      I'm Portuguese and i would love if you could tell us what has been happening with industry in Tuscany, i recently watched a video proclaiming that as China flooded the european market with cheap products the portuguese, spanish and italian industries suffered the most because we were competing in the same price tag products and profit margins decreased so much that economic growth almost disappeared, i'm inclined to believe that what southern europe is facing is mostly due to economic reasons like lack of competitiveness towards chinese highly subsidized state companies, for example where i live in northern Portugal there is an insane amount of huge factories that closed during the 70s and 80s is that the same in Tuscany.

  • @sunlite9759
    @sunlite9759 Před 3 lety +43

    Rule one; If you are in a hole stop digging. Keep the borders open= bigger hole. Politicians can't understand that.

    • @shawnaweesner3759
      @shawnaweesner3759 Před 3 lety +2

      👍🇺🇸

    • @justinamusyoka4986
      @justinamusyoka4986 Před 3 lety +1

      Confusion inside the hole.

    • @pedrolopes3542
      @pedrolopes3542 Před 3 lety +7

      LOL you do realize that both Southern Italy, and in Portugal immigration is not a problem, because it is not high, actually in Portugal immigration has served the purpose of keeping the low tech companies from shutting down in the north of the country (where there is still lots of industries) and in the Alentejo region is the Nepalese immigrants do the seasonal fruit-picking, a job that pays too little so is not worth it for any Portuguese person.

    • @frederickmuhlbauer9477
      @frederickmuhlbauer9477 Před 3 lety

      Exactly

    • @sebas8225
      @sebas8225 Před 3 lety

      @@pedrolopes3542 Portugal is Special.

  • @GoldenOldiesMusicCollector

    It’s now July 27, 2021. I couldn’t imagine entire family in Portugal no money at all. What’s happening to them now since the Pandemic?

  • @pinkshoes388
    @pinkshoes388 Před 3 lety +15

    And that's why it always drives me crazy when I hear people complaining about the weather and the food in Germany, Netherlands or in any of the other northern / central European countries. Yes, the southern countries have good weather and food but SO WHAT? The Sun doesn't pay the bills. These countries need to change their tax payer system for business owners and make sure they start paying decent salaries for their cost of living. Otherwise emigration is the only way out. No pun intended.

    • @AlternateHistory
      @AlternateHistory Před 2 lety +2

      You know that Northern Europe may have better salaries, but the prices are insane. Real estate in Luxembourg? Good luck! You can rent a room (not a studio or 0bd appartment, but a room!!!) for 1000 Euros minimum.

    • @pinkshoes388
      @pinkshoes388 Před 2 lety

      @@AlternateHistory yes but Luxembourg pays decent matching salaries for the cost of living. It is literally one of the richest countries in EU. Check out the cost of living prices in cities like Lisbon, Barcelona or Rome. They’re outrageous compared to the salaries people get.

    • @AlternateHistory
      @AlternateHistory Před 2 lety

      @@pinkshoes388 but in the countryside you can live cheaply, in Luxembourg the countryside is almost as expensive as the capital. Moreover in these countries it is easier to find stuff you need without relying on a car. In Luxembourg you will totally rely on your car, which brings additional costs. Luxembourg is just for the rich. Good luck living there as a normal average Joe.

    • @AlternateHistory
      @AlternateHistory Před 2 lety

      @@pinkshoes388 and matching the salaries goes only so long. Once the salaries are matched, the consumption prices increase too.

    • @pinkshoes388
      @pinkshoes388 Před 2 lety +1

      @@AlternateHistory That's not true. I live in Europe, been to Luxembourg twice, you can do a lot without a car. And majority of people who live there have above average lives compared to other EU countries. People I know all have university degrees myself inc. that's just the norm over here, we're not average joes but not splurging either.

  • @taniagudka1966
    @taniagudka1966 Před 2 lety +4

    Unfortunately the job market has changed, and since automation, it has caused mass redundancies and unemployment. The trades mentioned e.g. shoemaker, decorator, farming have all gone. We live in a throw-away society, where it’s cheaper to buy a mass produced dress from H&M or Primark, rather than sew and make your own one-off dress. I sew and quilt, when people see the quilts I’ve made they ask how much it would cost. If I calculate the cost of fabric and supplies, then my time, it would be extortionate, because of the time spent on it. They can buy a quilt for £20, which has been made in a factory in China. The jobs available in the future will not be the same as what we have in the job market today. We need to prepare our children with the skills and education, so that they can be employable when they enter the job market when they’re working age. Another factor is that the population is growing and the job market is shrinking. Our youth are our economy of the future.

  • @mrsmerily
    @mrsmerily Před 3 lety +2

    Weird is that we have heard other type of documentaries. That young people in south just dont want to leave from home and from their mama as it is much simple. There are lot of articles and i think even documentaries about that. There was case in Spain where 26 yo child sued their parents, because parents said enough is enough.

  • @jacobrocks7
    @jacobrocks7 Před 2 lety +1

    Same everywhere. Rich get richer while rest go nowhere. Nothing has changed in thousands of years and nothing will change in next thousand years

  • @biulaimh3097
    @biulaimh3097 Před 3 lety +35

    Ireland will default on it`s debt when the next recession comes. Most of the debt is external to the Irish economy which is not good and per head of population, Ireland`s debt is one of the highest in the world. Everything depends on the foreign multinationals based here, without them Ireland would not be able to recover from a severe economic downturn. The question is, will the multinationals stay or go in the event of an economic depression. The socialists in this documentary are funny. That Dublin woman who said social programs will work as long as there is the funding seems to think money grows on trees.

    • @donfalcon1495
      @donfalcon1495 Před 3 lety +4

      I don’t think you understand economics! In fact Ireland needs to increase it’s debt as it can borrow cheaper than pretty much any country in the world. When Ireland didn’t default on it’s debt in 2008 but bailed out the German banks it’s won’t be defaulting on any debt any time soon.
      You need look up MMT.
      As for the multinationals they are going no place. They are as dependent on Ireland as Ireland is on them. There are now skill sets in Ireland that are just not in competitor countries. Also the MNCs have resulted in numerous indigenous offshoots.
      The only threat to Ireland is a Sinn Fein Government who will do their best to ensure the MMCs leave the country!
      Also Ireland has possibly the most generous social supports for unemployed people in the EU. You’d never know it from this documentary! I know we have a lot of cloudy days in Ireland but could they manage to make Ireland look more gloomy!

    • @biulaimh3097
      @biulaimh3097 Před 3 lety +3

      @@donfalcon1495 We need to increase our debt because we can borrow cheaply! Listen to yourself!

    • @donfalcon1495
      @donfalcon1495 Před 3 lety

      @@biulaimh3097 so that’s your answer “listen to yourself”. Maybe you’re unaware but debt is what makes capitalism work! Did you look up MMT?
      Come back to me when you’ve gained a basic understanding of economics!

    • @biulaimh3097
      @biulaimh3097 Před 3 lety +2

      @@donfalcon1495 In a fiat currency system yes but the currency supply is supposed to play catch up with work fueled economic growth. Fueling growth with money printing is inflationary. It is not sustainable.

    • @donfalcon1495
      @donfalcon1495 Před 3 lety

      @@biulaimh3097 it is absolutely sustainable if this money is put to good work! Based on the amount of money printed in the last 18 months inflation should be at least 15% for the foreseeable future! This is not happening, why?

  • @reklawazag
    @reklawazag Před 3 lety +9

    One of the conditions for loans to Portugal “raise taxes” .? It is simply impossible to tax your way to prosperity. Countries where taxation is minimal are some of the most prosperous in the world.

    • @charliebrandt2263
      @charliebrandt2263 Před 3 lety +1

      Depends who you are taxing!!! The rich and corporations pay virtually no tax!!!!!!

    • @nickduke6909
      @nickduke6909 Před 3 lety

      that s not true .check the balance sheets and financial reports .rich and corporations pay a lot of tax

  • @MrWise23
    @MrWise23 Před 3 lety +6

    Country’s in Europe are to different to place them in one box. Some country’s have better safety nets than others

    • @katjasaha8396
      @katjasaha8396 Před 2 lety +1

      exactly! and rich countries have to pay and take care of the poor countries. Good example is Greece. We have send them millions with no return :(

  • @VinayTruth
    @VinayTruth Před 2 lety +2

    If EU stops meat consumption or production, if EU stops growing water intensive crops, If EU also takes 1 child policy, then everyone will have food and good living

  • @maxjakcker3273
    @maxjakcker3273 Před 3 lety +11

    I missed Germany here. 16 Millions are working there at minimum wage.

    • @steelrat1733
      @steelrat1733 Před 3 lety

      Which is 1500 Eur+ vs the neighbouring states like Poland 610 EUR or Czech Republic 574 EUR. And prices are the same. This is probably why Gemany wasn't presented.

    • @ho-wy4lh
      @ho-wy4lh Před 3 lety +5

      @@steelrat1733 I think, Price in Poland is cheaper than in Germany, with that 610 EUR in Poland you can buy the same quantity like 1500EUR in germany

    • @steelrat1733
      @steelrat1733 Před 3 lety

      @@ho-wy4lh It is, but it is not triple cheaper :D To be honest - prices for food and for example chemistry are in Germany about 5-10% higher than in Poland. I live in large city near the border - at the Polish side. A few years ago there was a lot of Germans shopping. Nowadays - virtually none. Why? Because the prices went up so much that they don't see the profit in this anymore. And that's groceries. Because housing is cheaper in Germany than in Poland - 4000m2 of land for house building costs around 35k EUR in Loecknitz area - while in neighbouring Police powiat - it would cost around 50k EUR.

    • @ho-wy4lh
      @ho-wy4lh Před 3 lety

      @@steelrat1733 I see,thank for the info, it added my knowledge.

    • @frederickmuhlbauer9477
      @frederickmuhlbauer9477 Před 3 lety

      @@steelrat1733 No prices are NOT the same Rural Poland is much less expensive then Germany

  • @andrewsweeney1869
    @andrewsweeney1869 Před 3 lety +41

    And people wonder why the UK voted for Brexit

    • @ltsjustchris
      @ltsjustchris Před 3 lety +3

      Spot on!

    • @jacqueline8559
      @jacqueline8559 Před 3 lety +2

      Yes, cos UK is rich hey. 😂🇬🇧

    • @khankrum1
      @khankrum1 Před 3 lety

      @@jacqueline8559 Not for the majority!

    • @aamaravel2493
      @aamaravel2493 Před 3 lety +2

      why don't you english people give scotland their independence

    • @andrewsweeney1869
      @andrewsweeney1869 Před 3 lety +2

      @@aamaravel2493 Because the Scots dont want independence-they voted against it a few years ago.Sturgeon is a megalomaniac who will throw Scotland into the Abyss for her own ego.

  • @abw48
    @abw48 Před 3 lety +4

    The EU does nothing to stop unskilled, young fit men, all of them muslims, from Asia and Africa, from entering Europe illegally, and these people even get better housing and treatment by the EU Nations as they fear somebody from Africa will call them a racist....Such madness, charity begins at home.

  • @juliataylor2623
    @juliataylor2623 Před 2 lety +2

    none are poor all are clothed and fed, its the superficial nature of work and its lack of engagement and fulfilment that is the problem, out sourcing our manufacturing has caused this.

  • @ronaldmitchell3665
    @ronaldmitchell3665 Před 3 lety +26

    The key to survival is a technical skill developed over time: i make lots of money with CNC machines....and i notice that employees dont want to develop or persevere. This is the real problem to me.....

    • @havanaroad2750
      @havanaroad2750 Před 3 lety +2

      The key is to break through the system, they want you to keep going into the krypto, into the tech system that will destroy this planet

    • @Paul22192
      @Paul22192 Před 3 lety +6

      CNC sheet metal bending - low paied job. 700-800 euros after taxes , you need to have your own car &gasoline to drive to work and home 36km. This is scam to lure men into school to learn CNC to find themselves after school low paying job.

    • @ronniescopeline7486
      @ronniescopeline7486 Před 3 lety +5

      I used to do machine operator positions.
      Long hours standing, regimented breaks and low pay and bacterial infections from the coolant. While a few reap the financial rewards. Wasted my life in machine shops, being soaked in coolant. Quit your crying

    • @frederickmuhlbauer9477
      @frederickmuhlbauer9477 Před 3 lety +1

      @Thomas Hellberg No they can’t That just devalues the currency Doesn’t solve anything

    • @freedomordeath89
      @freedomordeath89 Před 2 lety +1

      It's human nature, most people are not smart enough or mentally capable enough to be a skilled worker. I'm like them. What should I do? I tried specilizing, acquiring skills, I always fail. What do I do? Hang myself? No thanks, I'm unskilled. I work were I can, but you can't pretend to transform me in some super-skiller robot technician...I simply dont have the skills for that.

  • @Fizmoo
    @Fizmoo Před 3 lety +14

    That's the consequence of globalization. Plenty of cheap labour available worldwide which puts downward pressure on the relatively higher wages and salaries in Europe. And certainly on the low skilled jobs in Europe which can easily be replaced in Vietnam or Pakistan for 1/10th of the cost. At the same time the monetary policy of the ECB causes intrest rates to fall and asset prices (houses etc...) to raise. What can be done about it? Not much. I don't think you can stop globalization and the ECB's main focus is on price stabilization and I don't think we will see intrest rates like 10 or 20 years ago anymore. All these politicians are just trying to prove the usefulness of their jobs and are trying to protect their highly paid job, nothing more. They can't do anything about it.

    • @anja4790
      @anja4790 Před 2 lety +2

      Greed is the source of all evil.

    • @Vic-on5ic
      @Vic-on5ic Před 2 lety +1

      @@anja4790 Yes, greed and envy.

    • @cnfuzz
      @cnfuzz Před 2 lety +2

      and elections are not the answer anymore , they just remain in power even as they lose elections , this is one of the factors for civil war along with the cost of migration and utopian green economy

  • @skinnypigeonlegs403
    @skinnypigeonlegs403 Před 3 lety +2

    Lots of girls not only in Europe but all over the world are turning to web cam... It's very sad.

  • @marvwatkins7029
    @marvwatkins7029 Před 2 lety +1

    How old is his doc? All stats seem to be from 2016 yet it was released early in 2021?

  • @darylmccormick
    @darylmccormick Před 3 lety +26

    The EUs fundamental problem is too much regulation and a lack of entrepreneurship. Who cares if you have a bunch degrees for jobs that don't exist? Most of what they have comes from America or China. You got lots of educated people over there why cant they get together to create something? I met a women in America who got a masters in forensic psychology who was tending bar. She said she wanted to join the fbi or state police. Both have a height requirement of 5'7" or 170.18 cm for any euros reading this. She was 5'2" or 157.48 cm way below the height requirement. She didn't bother researching this information and no guidance counselor bothering to tell her she was burying herself under a $70,000 mountain debt so she could tend bar the rest of her life. People need to aquire skills that can be used for a job or for a business they start themselves or they are dooming themselves to a life of poverty.😢

    • @Shazzyhtown
      @Shazzyhtown Před 3 lety +2

      Why wouldn't she research something like that? The height thing😑

    • @patrickbateman529
      @patrickbateman529 Před 3 lety +2

      Agreed, Switzerland and the UK are the best European countries to start a business in.

    • @dinsel9691
      @dinsel9691 Před 3 lety +1

      Invariably in all of these videos... there is always someone who comes along and gives some ridiculous solution..
      If only Europe had "entrepreneurs" and "no regulation"... then poor would be fed "entrepreneurs" and be kept warm in "freedom".

    • @patrickbateman529
      @patrickbateman529 Před 3 lety +1

      @@dinsel9691 What are you trying to say? There's a lot of entrepreneurs in Europe.

    • @timofte566
      @timofte566 Před 3 lety

      She like MILLIONS like her will pay ENTIRE life her debit.

  • @khankrum1
    @khankrum1 Před 3 lety +20

    How many migrants have you allowed into Euripe since this was made?

    • @Itsaboutthewaterlife
      @Itsaboutthewaterlife Před 3 lety +5

      Shhhhhh. Not supposed to talk about that.

    • @khankrum1
      @khankrum1 Před 3 lety +3

      @@Itsaboutthewaterlife better jaw jaw than the war war that is becoming inevitable

    • @peachpink123
      @peachpink123 Před 3 lety

      @@Itsaboutthewaterlife Why not? I thought it's rights to talk?

    • @gat2mad40
      @gat2mad40 Před 3 lety

      @@peachpink123 Not on youtube

    • @peachpink123
      @peachpink123 Před 3 lety

      @@gat2mad40 No freedom of speech?

  • @rossellainglese5734
    @rossellainglese5734 Před 2 lety +1

    From February 1st in Italy all people without super green pass will loose their salaries. The use of pubblic transport will be forbidden. We will have no access to shops, services or any form of entertainment.
    I kindly ask the precious help from all of you to stop and cancel this crazy regulations. This is simply discrimination. We are hopeless.

  • @jonathansadalla7352
    @jonathansadalla7352 Před 3 lety +9

    Wish them the best in finding lasting solutions to their problems let's hope there competent people to offer a way forward who are firm to deal with predatory capitalist firms and politicians it's to sickening to see poverty in Europe

  • @1112viggo
    @1112viggo Před 3 lety +6

    Iv always found it strange that we have more empty buildings than homeless, more open jobs than unemployed and more food than hunger. So why can´t we make it work?

    • @SR-vw3ls
      @SR-vw3ls Před 2 lety

      Jeremiah 10:23

    • @freedomordeath89
      @freedomordeath89 Před 2 lety

      BEcause who's going to mantain the building/pay bills, transport the food,d istribute it, check all the documents etc? You live in a fantasy world. Think practical. Try setting up something similar in small scale. Its impossible.

    • @1112viggo
      @1112viggo Před 2 lety

      @@freedomordeath89 Buildings requires maintenance whether someone lives in them or not. You don´t need to rent it for free either, just give them enough of a discount that they can actually afford it. So what if the rich owner only get 100$ for a 1000$ apartment. If its empty anyway its still better than nothing. What is so unpractical about that?
      As for food supermarkets throw out enough to feed the world, just transport it to a homeless shelter rather than the dump. 30-40% of all food in the US ends up as garbage.
      Seems perfectly reasonable to me not to waste living space or resources. It might not be easy to organize, but certainly its possible to do better than we are doing now. Its got to be a lack of will, not money or possibilities.

    • @freedomordeath89
      @freedomordeath89 Před 2 lety

      @@1112viggo Wrong, you clearly dont know much about managing a building if you think it doesnt cost more to have someone living in it.
      "discount" why should a private owner be forced to give charity? Are YOU forced to give charity' Why don't YOU gift your money to the poor?
      If it's empty there's a REASON you dummy. It means it would cost MORE to rent it. You have no idea how renting works.
      "supermarkets" WHO is going to take the expiring food from supermarkets to people FOR FREE? Are YOU going to do it? How are you going to RENT a truck to do it? SPOILER ALERT KID: a truck costs thousands of euros every day if you rent it
      And what about possible incidents/food poisoning? WHo's going to COVER that? What if you get a lawsuit by someone you gifted food from? THINK before writing.
      "wasting living space and resources" wow you quoting the Mein Kempf now? hahaha

    • @1112viggo
      @1112viggo Před 2 lety

      @@freedomordeath89 I didn´t say it didn´t cost more, i just said buildings requires maintenance either way. Its no charity... If the buildings are empty the owner gets no money, if homeless can live there cheap, they get some money.
      If someone is able and willing to pay full price for the apartment, then they get it, and if the former homeless dude gets a job and is able to pay full rent or move somewhere else, then he should do that to the benefit of the owner. is that charity?
      Expiring food gets thrown out either way. Instead of paying a truck to drive it to the dump you pay him to drive it to a soup kitchen type place that dives it up and hands it out to the homeless and poor by the same volunteers already working there. Where is the cost there? The supermarket can attract more costumers by letting them know they are doing "charity" even though it costs them nothing. People love that and it will end up increasing their profits, its already been done small scale if you bothered looking into it...
      Of course you don´t hand out food that will make people sick, come on dude, really? Most of what supermarkets throw away is "expired" to the point where it doesn't taste or look all that great but pose no risk to your health.

  • @VishalPatel-mx6th
    @VishalPatel-mx6th Před rokem +3

    Still better than being poor in poor countries.

  • @ybergik
    @ybergik Před 3 lety +11

    No doubt there's a lot of poor management and embezzlement of public funds going on in the southern countries of europe, but the youngsters aren't without blame either; they all want top paying jobs in tech and refuse any job requiring some degree of physical labour.

    • @issecret1
      @issecret1 Před 3 lety

      I would have taken that kind of job instead of tech if there were schools to teach me or apprenticeships that didn't look like slavery with extra steps. Between the easy path and the seemingly impossible one, complex math was the easier

    • @freedomordeath89
      @freedomordeath89 Před 2 lety +3

      I'm from Italy. i got laid off 3 times in 3 years in warehouses jobs. COmpanies hire you with temp contracts, exploit the 1st year tax reduction, then they lay you off to get a new person and save on taxes. There's no jobs. It's not tre that we dont want to work. There's no one HIRING full time. And when you need to choose between getting exploited with a temp contract for 1000 eur/month OR stay at home unemployed and get 800/month + side hustles...guess what most people choose?

    • @freedomordeath89
      @freedomordeath89 Před 2 lety +1

      @@issecret1 Sadly that's the state of things. A suggestion: if you are still young/studying, do an apprenticeship part time while studying.
      Once you get too old you are f***ed otherwise.

    • @solamano7239
      @solamano7239 Před 2 lety

      @@freedomordeath89 - Very true.

  • @francescogiordano5544
    @francescogiordano5544 Před 3 lety +9

    The worst of the worst for Italy was to sign a treaty (Mastricht) that was very incovenient for my Nation, plus a strong currency (Euro) for a country that found its economy on exportations, so this things called european union/Euro works only for Germany and its satellite cuontries, the german governament on febraury 7th 1992 did an excellent job for the germans

    • @capassoluigi7387
      @capassoluigi7387 Před 3 lety

      And what about birthcontrol?

    • @francescogiordano5544
      @francescogiordano5544 Před 3 lety

      @@capassoluigi7387 Caro Luigi ci sono due vincoli che entrambi pesano come macigni su l'italia uno principalmente Euro/commissione eu, e l'altro e' l'inverno demografico, questi 2 fattori determinano la crescita in termini di pil e di potenza come fattore geopolitico

    • @gabrielferrer3205
      @gabrielferrer3205 Před 3 lety +5

      If Britain can Brexit, Italy can Italexit

    • @frederickmuhlbauer9477
      @frederickmuhlbauer9477 Před 3 lety +2

      Why didn’t Italy retain the Lira

    • @francescogiordano5544
      @francescogiordano5544 Před 3 lety +2

      @@frederickmuhlbauer9477 Political reasons, meaning whoever was at the governament around that period(1992 in particular) they were willing to do so, of course big part of the elite played a big role behind the curtains, oligarchies always get their way at some point

  • @SecretStepDaddy
    @SecretStepDaddy Před 3 lety +17

    9:53 The German guy has a very insightful comment about German worker training system

  • @relaxationstation7374
    @relaxationstation7374 Před 3 lety +2

    In reality, this situation is Millennia old and intensely it is at the very least Centuries old!

  • @robertenglish3921
    @robertenglish3921 Před rokem

    I hope this crises is averted somehow..
    Hope the people in poverty are aided

  • @dickielarue1451
    @dickielarue1451 Před 3 lety +51

    I have lived in Portugal for the past 4 plus year's...Even with the boom in Tourism...The wages in Portugal are still dismal and the cost of goods and service's, high, throw in Covid-19, and you get the picture...This video is from 2017, and nothing has changed for the majority, while the few have become richer...Throwing money at corrupt Politicians in various countries is like having sex with a condom on full of holes, expecting that little Giuseppe, won't be around 9 month's later...People know what the problems are and refuse to fix them, it's a choice...Bread and Circuses...😉

    • @kathleankeesler1639
      @kathleankeesler1639 Před 3 lety +2

      Thank you for your comment. This documentary is old 2017. Poverty in America today 2021, looks akin to the Great Depression. Olympia Washington USA

    • @joedias7946
      @joedias7946 Před 3 lety

      How do get you get out of a
      Economic crisis. Are you saying sex is the cause.

    • @8ofwands300
      @8ofwands300 Před 3 lety +1

      @@kathleankeesler1639 What? No it doesn't. 😳

    • @jan22150
      @jan22150 Před 2 lety

      @@kathleankeesler1639 poverty in America is because of the ineptitude of the current demented president. Under Mr, Trump we had the lowest unemployment rate even under the black and latino population. Now we have a democratic administration the unemployment rate shot up, the crime rate skyrocketed, the influx of illegal aliens skyrocketed. We can all blame it on that uncompetent Joe biden.

    • @kathleankeesler1639
      @kathleankeesler1639 Před 2 lety

      @@jan22150 Thank you Charles.