This documentary was about how the lower and poor countries are struggling to export their goods and services. It shows how having organizations help those countries with their work and the goods that they provide for other countries. It gives different perceptions of how to look at the world and how to help make poverty less severe. This documentary has a lot of different types of people with different types of jobs that talk about how their line of work has affected countries and poverty and how they think the world views poverty. It focuses a lot on Haiti and the earthquake that hit that affected their work. The problem with that is with having this natural disaster and people trying to help, it actually made things worse. No all organizations made poverty worse, it was more those companies that are trying to get something out of it.
This documentary was interesting because it shows that bigger companies are not always the good guys. They do not purposely want to hurt the economy, but they do. I also found interesting that Africa houses resources that are needed and wanted around the world. They create majority of their goods and exporting them is how they get the money they need. Haiti also only focuses on certain goods when it comes to exporting, which is rice. Lastly, another interesting thing I found was how much subsidizing has affected the world economy, especially in poorer countries. Organizations has helped these poorer countries by giving back to them. TOMS shoes are one of the biggest and well know companies that give back to those that do not have the proper footwear.
The relationship between the entrepreneurship and the society based on the point of view of the documentary is that entrepreneurs can hurt the society if they are not familiar with other countries. This means that having these bigger and larger companies come in and help Haiti ruins smaller and local businesses. These type of entrepreneurs want to show off what they can do by helping those that do not have a lot. These entrepreneurs will say that they are doing this for charity, but the documentary defines charities are social entrepreneurs. This causes a divide in what people think entrepreneurs are. Recently, in class we have talked about how entrepreneurs are something that not everybody wants to do but will eventually have to do. How this aspect of entrepreneurship affects society is by bringing a sort of destruction to the local marketplace. These big companies are giving product away for free which hurts the local companies. In the documentary, one of the people that talked about the marketplace said, “Teach them how to fish, do not just give them the fish”. This meaning that you can not just hand people things for free because that is not how the world works. How society affects entrepreneurship is by showing that they do not want the free goods and services, especially if it is only for that certain amount of time. They do not want pity after the natural disaster that just hit them. These type of entrepreneurs will help them when they are in need but will not help all the time. The interaction between this entrepreneurship and the society is conflicted. The society is grateful at times but that is because the entrepreneurs are there during that disaster that happened. Other than that, the society is fine having its local markets because they know that they are dependable.
