E298. Erick Brimen Has A Plan To End Poverty
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🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Entrepreneur and CEO of Prospera, Erick Brimen, sits down with Bridget to discuss his plan for ending poverty. They discuss what makes a country wealthy vs. poor, the role of government, the difference between government and governance, the conditions which are necessary for human beings to flourish, creating the conditions for prosperity, and how the creation of wealth and prosperity is the only solution to ending poverty because you can’t simply eradicate a negative. He lays out how the specialized economic zones he’s creating work, how the cities operate, how to regulate without stifling growth, the major criticisms that have been leveled at the project, the 100 to 200 trillion dollars of wealth that goes unrealized every year due to poor governance, and what we can do better worldwide in creating the conditions where people can flourish.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, I'm with Eric Brimman, everybody. |
| 0:02.1 | Welcome to Walkins. |
| 0:03.2 | Welcome. |
| 0:04.2 | Thank you for being here with me. |
| 0:05.6 | My pleasure. |
| 0:06.3 | So I wanted to talk to you about what you're doing right now, |
| 0:10.4 | because it seems so, you know, this podcast is about just resilience and grit and |
| 0:16.2 | innovation and and overcoming obstacles and I feel like what you're doing in your work life is so far outside of the box for most of us to kind of even get our minds around. |
| 0:30.0 | So can you kind of just briefly explain to me what you're up to sure happy to |
| 0:36.8 | I was born in Venezuela. And I grew up in a country that should be rich by any account but it's actually one of the poorest countries in the region. |
| 0:44.0 | Dad led me down a rabbit hole of trying to figure out why certain countries are prosperous and others are not. |
| 0:51.0 | What makes society wealthy versus poor. |
| 0:57.0 | And during my student years at high school and university, |
| 1:01.0 | the answer... |
| 1:02.0 | And where were those sorry? |
| 1:03.0 | I was at Hargarth Military Academy for high school. |
| 1:06.3 | Okay. |
| 1:07.3 | And then Bapsin College for undergrad. |
| 1:10.3 | Okay. |
| 1:11.3 | Okay. |
| 1:12.3 | What became apparent, obvious, is that governments have a very important role to play in society |
| 1:22.0 | when it comes to establishing the conditions for an economy to flourish |
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