There is No Technical Solution to Poverty - My interview on the Prosper Podcast
My interview on the upcoming documentary, Poverty Trap, work, personalism + books including Quo Vadis and Eric Varden, and people doing amazing things across the US
Here is a link to my interview on the Prosper Podcast with Andreas Widmer and Rebecca Teti. We discuss a wide range of things including
Rethinking our approaches to social and material poverty
A different way of thinking about dependency
The role of work
The importance of relationships
We discuss various themes and stories from new film I am directing called POVERTY TRAP: How Big Plans to Solve Poverty Broke the American Dream. The film highlights how large-scale, expert-led, distant, technocratic planning ended up weakening the natural communities that enable people to flourish — and how community leaders are finding local solutions to generate opportunity and foster social flourishing.
We also discuss various books including, Quo Vadis Chastity and the Shattering of Loneliness and Chastity by Bishop Eric Varden, Dreamland by Sam Quinones, and some of the amazing things that people are doing across the US working with homeless, generating economic opportunity, and more.