If we want poverty to be history, we must understand the history of poverty. A fun and spooky animated odyssey through time and space.
The poor may have always been with us, but attitudes toward them have changed. From the Neolithic onwards, Ben Lewis’ films take us through a changing world of poverty.
You sleep, you dream, and over time you become poor. When you wake up, how do you feel about poverty now? There are still very poor people, but the new poverty has more to do with inequality…
Do hunter-gatherers have bad relationships? Who in history got poorer faster than others? Could Karl Marx Make Tea? But you also deal with big questions: what lifts people out of poverty and how?
Is there a formula that can be used again? Is poverty the “engine of the system” and a powerful engine of progress – or a terrible by-product of inequality?
