Saturday, July 27, 2019

"Nobody wants to be a beggar for life"

Just finished watching a documentary called "Poverty, Inc." which could be called "the road to ruin is paved with good intentions."  I really didn't know much about this movie when I put it in my Netflix queue but it's a libertarian's dream.  In heartbreaking detail, it shows how "compassion" puts poor countries into a dependency trap.  After all, why buy a pair of shoes from your local cobbler when Tom's is handing them out for free?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's not on Netflix, but is on Amazon Prime Video.

Eric said...

Oh, sorry, I forgot to specify: it's on Netflix DVD. I think I'm their last subscriber.

Anonymous said...

That's right - I forgot about their DVDs! It's now on my Amazon queue.