Dr. Dambisa strikes fear in the heart of the host - fear that she is exposing the reality that the King is naked and no longer viewed as wearing beautiful robes sewn by the wealth of others!
THE SHOW IS CALLED HARD TALK. The M.O. of the show is to hit people (usually those with polarizing or controversial ideas) with difficult, questions, often from a devil's advocate's perspective, as a classic debate form. I am a big fan of Dambisa Moyo and her work/ideals. I was not offended at all by the line of questioning. Watch the show, and you'll see that this is a very common temperature for interviews on Hard Talk.
@anyfekinnamewilldo You are right, I am not sure about her yet, I like what she says, yet, I am also listening for what she doesn't say... that is the key to whether you are hearing truth or just a peace of truth. Right now, she is pointing out a peice of truth but she isn't really getting to the heart of the issues, such as central banking, fractional reserve banking, inflationary spending, the gold standard/silver, as well as government intervention that hinders progress, i.e. NAFTA.
The standard BBC interview technique is that of "Devil's Advocate" and intentionally seeks to take the opposing view from that of the interviewee. And yes, it's a particularly pushy technique that leads to the interviewer intervening wherever an inconsistency is perceived in the interviewee's line of argument. Some BBC journalists have drawn criticism for the number of interventions made in an interview and not allowing the argument to be developed.
@sudsierchamp yes the book. We should spend more time reading and reflecting than expecting immediate answers from television programmes.READ. It is clear most interviewers rarely read anything but have been successful at creating the illusion of intelligence.Dont be afraid.........it is always good to read to learn after we have learnt to read.
@shumga clearly you haven't seen sackur's interviews... he does this to everyone... it's a very confrontational style and it would be nice to see more interviewers challenge their guests head on like he does, to see how well their arguments really stand under intense pressure...
I like Dambisa, but she doesn't mentioned central banking, fraction reserve banking, fiat money or the consequences of interest rates being set centrally.
Angelina Jolie isn't putting forward earth-shattering ideas. THE SHOW IS CALLED HARD TALK. The M.O. of the show is to hit people (usually those with polarizing or controversial ideas) with difficult, questions, often from a devil's advocate's perspective, as a classic debate form.
I'm disappointed in Dambisa on this one. The reason that footballers and entertainers are pain 100k per week is because of the enormous amount of money advertisers are willing to pay them, it's not a 'misallocation of resources.' (Also, these footballers don't just stuff their earnings into a mattress, they probably invest it.) When hundreds of thousands of people want to watch you play football, advertisers are willing to pay a lot of money to get a slice of your audience's attention. If millions of people didn't enjoy watching Messi play football, he wouldn't be getting paid so much. Simples.
+bell191991 Irrespective of the rationale behind the footballers' valuation, it's still a misallocation of resources. I'm fairly certain that very little of the footballers' wealth is invested in small companies, start-ups or infrastructure spending. I'd go so far as to say that most is "invested" in Monaco and the Cayman islands, and that which is traditionally invested, is invested in typical blue chip portfolios who already have burgeoning balance sheets.
footballers do nothing but kick a ball doctors lawyers (such as myself) actually contribute to society how does someone who kicks a ball is worth more then say a person who teaches someone
Roman Soiko Life's not fair in that regard. People value entertainment enough for entertainers to be worth more than doctors lawyers teachers etc. In that regard the OP is correct.
She goes into this in her book more; her argument is that high salaries change the behavior of people entering the job market, causing a 'lottery effect'. Someone who sees a sports star making millions naturally wants to be a sports star, and begins training the relevant skills. But only a small fraction of those people succeed, and the skills that they learn are much less transferable than in other careers. Someone who pursues a career as a doctor can become a nurse or a laboratory technician if they fail. Someone who fails at a sports career only has so many options in a productive economy (coach, phys ed teacher), and there are so many people trying (because the salary at the top is such an attractive award, not to mention the adulation) that there is bound to be a whole heap of 'leftovers' who are not well suited to fill the skilled labor slots that a productive society needs to be filled. Society invests enormous resources in educating its workforce in order to make them productive; if an outsized amount of them are falling flat on their face with little useful skills to show for it then society is wasting the resources that it spent on educating them. You don't even necessarily have to curtail athlete salaries; just give people less choice in education, steer more people into trade schools, and force them to learn the skills necessary to fulfill a productive role in society. Less 'follow your dreams' and 'shoot for the moon' when it comes to careers like 'athlete' and 'movie star'. The fact that athletes are paid so much is more reflective of cultural malaise that is outside Dr. Moyo's area of expertize.
Very eloquent but not smart and inhumane... For someone who was well fed and well educated, you never know what its like to see someone died due to lack of medicine or ignorant due to lack of education... The idea of "teaching them how to fish" is good as long as there are teachers to teach them and they are alive. Aid is not a bad thing especially if it cost human lives. Aid can also keep an economy growing. US debt is 21 trillion dollars... Those are aids/ loans from the global community to keep their economy growing... What the private sector and the governments are giving are just coins...
In much of the 3rd World, peer pressure plays a role in pressuring people into producing kids and using them. If the world were simply taught about the harm caused by such peer pressure; many children could be spared from suffering and benefactors would be more willing to help.
"peer pressure plays a role in pressuring people into producing kids and using them." This is pure nonsense. People in the poor countries produce large families as they feel the families survival hinges upon it. This happen in the west at one point as well but education and engineering changed this.
CHILD SLAVERY IS A MAJOR CAUSE OF FAMINE. Slavery means involuntary servitude. Some people don't like to work, so make a lot of kids to do their work.The fact that mainstream media reports this slavery in a manner which is sympathetic to the parents, worsens the problem. It happens in the West too. Some welfare recipients make more babies to get more welfare.
***** I do not know in which country in Africa you teach. But Please bear in mind the 54 different countries with distinct governments and economies, cultures, legal, health systems etc.. Many people make the mistake of saying Africa and getting the wrong message across. Example, Namibia and Zimbabwe are 2 different African countries and therefore separate, economies, etc.
+Michael Heery that's the most ignorant comment ever! i'm not sure which african country you are referring to because africa is a continent but your statements are completely incorrect and out order
Sackur is spot on at 09:42. Despite the purported decline of the West, Western countries still top the innovation and welfare tables. Western countries are still the most innovative and best places to live. True, China is 'catching up' in terms of innovation, but they are nowhere compared to the U.S.
She made a great point. As a society, we have misplaced our priorities. How will you advocate for society or humans to pursue areas of innovation or discovery of you are willing to pay entertainers (they equally give us fund and great pleasure) more than those that create what they use to entertain us like engineers, doctors and environmentalist.
Go to Accra at latitude 109 turn left, hypotenus 129, keep going apply Pythagoras theorem, at an angle of 45 degrees maintain ur angles. Now apply pie radios square ur location is next. If u don't see the book store, call ur further mathematics teacher.
She TOTALLY disregards the black propensity for corruption, that's like talking about the drug runners in Mexico without pointing a finger at the addicts in the U.S.. Blame, blame, blame...
+doceigen "Black propensity for corruption" Man, where do you people come from? Do you know any 'black people'? You are on a computer so you must have some intelligence (I'm being generous). You really need a library card - if you live in poverty you may be excused but I doubt it. I really feel sorry for you; to enter into maturity with such simple ideas about your fellow man. I hope you are in no position to make decisions that affect other people regardless of colour.
Anogoya Dagaati Hi, I just read your comment, and it proves YOU are so stupid, that even though you had a link to my profiles on this site, you didn't read through them. So you have NO IDEA who you're even addressing. That, is an example of a 'propensity', in this case a 'propensity for stupidity', where even with easy access to a route, which will derive an optimum solution, you don't avail yourself of it. I of course being highly educated and having a 'propensity for exploration and learning', watched your two videos (especially the one about fixing a lamp fixture), looked at your pages, and read what I could of your opinions BEFORE! addressing you with this comment. Now you see the difference, that two diametrically opposed 'propensities' have, on people's behaviors. Yes, blacks have a propensity for corruption, that is why some of the most evil men on Earth, have been black leaders, and in fact... still are. But that in itself is not PROOF, what is proof is that black Africans 'praise these men' and 'keep them in power', while they suck your economies dry and steal their billions of dollars right out in front of you!! THAT PROVES the CORRUPTIBILITY of black Africans.
Man, this could go on forever.the internet is replete with people like you. Some one gave you a piece of paper that gave you pride, robbed you of your humanity and utterly destroyed your hopes for true maturity. My friend; you don't tell a mans intelligence from reading their bio -especially on the internet. This is so fundamental that its unproductive to keep going. Frankly I wish you well; I didn't question your intelligence from malice. You are wrong about 'black people' - there are no 'black people' that you can interview or study and discover their 'propensity' for anything; its unforgivable at your age and experience. It breaks my heart to imagine someone like you; clean on the outside going about your business like a normal person and yet extrapolating from a sample space utterly insignificant for confidence - they teach this even in African colleges. Some time in this lifetime you may find out; there's hope for us all. Kyrie eleison!
Anogoya Dagaati "and yet extrapolating from a sample space utterly insignificant for confidence" Really? And how large a sample size are the studies I've read, based on? I mean you seem to know, so tell me. You told me I can't tell your intelligence from reading your bio, and I never read a bio, in fact... just exactly WHERE should I have found a bio? You told me there are no black people that can be interviewed or studied to discover a 'propensity' from, because... because... ok, why exactly are black people immune from modern statistical science?? Wait a second, does this have to do with some kind of voodoo spell?