Poverty—this is not a new word for us, in fact, it is has been part of our lives even before. Every country is experiencing it thus, until now no solution has been acted upon this phenomenon crisis. The documentary entitled "End of poverty" does not only enlighten us about how people suffers and seek for jobs for their own necessities yet it also enlighten us how they seek for justice because of the corrupted people who gets their land.
The first portion of the documentary talked about how poverty and colonialism effected poverty today simultaneously. I've witnessed how people fight for their land when someone wants to take it. Slavery has been an unending issue in our society because of the discrimination that these people are getting. I've
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In the short documentary it was mentioned as the third problem of poverty, although it seems as if it is the root of all evil. The two other problems, trade and debt, may generally be referred to as causes of it from a certain perspective. It may be an endless debate as to which exactly started what, but we all know Colonialism has caused the rich in resources to be the richest in debt. From watching, I realized that monopoly is the result of nothing but greed; the desire to be the most powerful; and the act of stepping on those you can, especially since the cost of one’s new colony is the debt of the ever-struggling country. Colonizers only cared about themselves and how they can eat more land, people and resources. An example of this would be the Spanish Conquistadors who confiscated land from countries in Asia and Africa and enriched themselves through taxes and religion. And so unfortunately until now, people in Kenya, Brazil and many other affected areas are paying for the debt they never had to have. This has spiraled into viscous cycle