@Dummweltschutz If your parents are halfway worth their salt they will be proud to help you to put some of your money in this. And if that doesn't work out, maybe you can find someone else trustworthy to help you do it. :)
If I get a job. and I'm paid every other week. And after all my money is set aside for things I have to pay for, and then I donate 25$ to Kiva.. and then the next payday, another 25$. Then I have 50 dollars that I have saved without saving. Hmm....
As I was watching this , I happened to be reading looking for Alaska for the third time. My iPod had the video playing on my table and I was reading haha
kiva partners charge a good amount of intrest. perhaps necessary but there are some things i find wrong with kiva. do some research before you loan through them. I did.
There are no awesome bankers. There are only bankers that screw you or bankers that are getting ready to screw you. Peer to peer lending has done more than corrupt banks ever will.
I remember Kiva. It's a really good tool to help people NOT living in the U.S.A.
Or it WOULD be a good idea, I believe, if it did not strike me as a financial band-aide; which (much like leaving tips for one's Waiter) had the potential to further delay the correction of the ever-widening gap that is Socio-Economic Inequalities in our increasingly shrinking world economy. **gasp for air**
Don't worry, John. Some day soon, you're baby will pay YOU to poop. #Winning!
How about yes?It was once illegal to charge interest. Now banks charge interest that keeps you in debt forever.While the federal reserve gives them no interest loans.
I am philosophically in favor of living within one's means. Is there another organization where I could just donate the money and the people who get it will pay it forward once they've succeeded?
John (and other nerdfighters), have you seen that the Nerdfighter team at Kiva has now essentially doubled the $30,000 they had before your message, and has set as a new goal $100,000 by January first. DFTBA.
This isn't really about this banking/lending, but it is about decreasing world suck. Some friends of mine really need some help &I figure Nerdfighters would be willing 2 do what they could. See, they fell in love over a hike to raise domestic violence awareness, &he's trying to get legal status here in the US but it is so much money. If we can all take a look at this link and help, every bit helps them, who have done so much trying to decrease world suck. itsaboutpower.blogspot.com
I've been using Kiva for a few years now, and I have always been paid back, I think it's an amazing idea, charity without the charity part :P All you need is 25 dollars and you can keep lending it out for years
John or Hank PLEASE do a video explaining the occupy wall street protests. There is no media coverage because no one is brave enough to talk about it. Fellow nerdfighters please thumbs this up so John and Hank might see and find out more about the protests. Copy and paste this to other vlogbrothers vids please.
@skatervamp31 No, I haven't, actually. I'm getting zero news coverage here in canada, don't know if it's the same down in the US, everything I know is through tumblr/independent media... I'd love for them to do a video on it. In fact, I'd love any intelligent debate/discussion on it, point.
Instead of thinking of the poop your baby produces from that food, you could choose to think of the other things she does with that sustenance. Such as growing, playing, and being generally adorable. ;)
when I see that we (nerdfighteria) almost doubled the total amount loaned on Kiva ($57,000 at this moment), I just get this happy feeling that we are indeed decreasing worldsuck. Thanks, nerdfighters.
I've been using Kiva to reduce world suck for years and I love it. So far I've also enjoyed a 100% repayment rate, but I really wonder what local organizations Kiva works with, and do those local groups charge these poor business people interest?
This is awesome. Great initiative. Can you do more blogs on the economy, and money, and that kind of thing? Cuz this clip was way more fun and informative than any economics text book I have EVER crossed. How about doing something on the WTO?
Thanks for spreading the message on this, it seems like one of the most positives ways to donate to developing countries! I'm definitely going to be campaigning about this at my college.
Tak about decreasing world suck. Since you recorded this, Nerdfighteria has brought the total amount lent on Kiva.org to over $55,000!! And I'm about to give it another push...
John, don't get me wrong, I want to see funding for the maginalized. Your proposition about the credit crunch regarding banks holding cash as protection against a run on the bank. Consumer response (competition) is part of the regulation these bank guys should be facing - your (kiva's) scheme seems to reroute the bank's work to everyday people thus eliminating the banker's need to respond against the inefficiencies that trigger better practices. If banks are bad, people SHOULD withdraw the cash.
ok iv tryed to tell as many people asi can about varolo its not bullshit they will pay you to rate tv ad's its free takes 10mins a day online to do if you do join or just want to check it out go to my page and use my link to join so i get paid to thanks
@Mslovelyxxx John just published a new book, and he's promised to sign every single copy of the first printing. That turned out to be 150,000 copies so the Yeti made that progress bar to help him out. . . . He explains it in his July 27 video
Kiva originally was fantastic. However since they've been sold they are terrible. The amount of money Kiva is now making combined with thier growing rate of shonky 'investigators' is causing the end user (poverty stricken entrepreneur) to suffer.
It's a pity that such an brilliant idea is being taken advantage of.
@specialfae1989 I did at one point have a few hundred dollars in Kiva unfortunately I've been forced to remove it due the the problems mentioned above.
you're nearly at 70,000 (for books signed) cool! you're getting close to halfway! now that i have congradulated you on that, HURRY UP AND SEND THEM OUT! please
Hey John, did you know you can auto-loan the money if you forget to sign in? I forget where the option is, but you pick what kind of countries, businesses, etc you want them to auto loan, and as soon as a loan is paid back... BAM they send it out again for you. I did this because I kept forgetting to sign in!
I found Vlogbrothers around two months ago through a close friend, and that friend's name is Nora. I have to say the more she showed me your guys' videos, the more addicted I became and it was then that I realized that I am a Nerd Fighter. If it weren't for Nora, I wouldn't be watching all these great and inspiring videos! So I was wondering if, John, you could do a shout out to Nora for me on your next Question Tuesday. It would mean the world to her!
Kiva is amazing. My city's rotary gives my school's Interact Club $400 just to loan on Kiva. My dad also does a lot of Kivaing. (Is that a word? I think that's a word now.)
John, the brazilian version of "Looking for Alaska" is translated as "Who are you Alaska?" and I'm a little bit annoyed by that. PLEASE don't let people do this kind of stuff with "The Fault in Our Stars".
In seventh grade, my Civ class donated 50 dollars a month to Kiva. We voted on who we were going to help each month. About half way through the year, we helped a guy with 6 kids get back on his feet. It was awesome.
JOHN i tried to indirectly buy baby poop but my mom's paypall account said she had to "verify" that it was her and that's never happened before... so she wouldn't get it bc she doesn't know your site... is there a way to buy stuff online w/o paypall?
its fun watching john's latest videos in chronological order so you can see the number of books boxes decrease and the little-red-sign-thermometer-thing go up!
ok so yeah, like, microfinance is a pretty cool way to ~help people in developing countries, but I think there are quite a few problems with supporting Kiva; many of the MFIs Kiva partners with are essentially loan sharks - quite a large proportion are charging interest in the 60-70% range, which i think seems unjustifiable even when you take into account instability and lack of banking infrastructure. how exactly is debt slavery decreasing world suck????
But how will I get to break the struggling 1.5%'s legs? Not to mention, a lot of them have probably already had at least one of their legs blown off...
What you forget to mention, John, is that to transfer the money from you to the entrepreneur, you have banking costs. Each entrepreneur who takes your money for his idea, ends up paying the banking fees to withdraw and then deposit back the money you loan to him. We are not the bankers - by investing in this ideas we are basically charity venture capitalists (true venture capitalist ask for a return/profit on their investment). The bankers are still in the picture, transferring our money across.
Yesterday my 8th grade class did a "My Turn" thing, where we talk about our favorite book. The person who went in front of me did Looking for Alaska. The one I did, well, lets just say, there were 19 Katherines in it. :D
Kiva is a great site! We did it for our Legacy Project in the Eighth grade and it was a blast, I think our class (150 students or so) raising around 6,000 dollars.
You mean we sit on a big pile of Inflation. Not loaning money out means the Fed isnt printing more money to loan out to you. Every time they loan money out they have to cover that in printed money. That causes items to go up in price.
John, I know that you often discuss Muggle Economics, but I was wondering if you could help explain the controversy over Wizarding Economics. I mean I get that Gringotts is the equivalent of their Federal Reserve and what not, but well first of all, how do most wizards make money? How does the Ministry of Magic get money? Is Gringotts just an extension of the Ministry? There are just so many things about wizard economics that have remained unsaid. A video about this would be cool. DFTBA
@swadhera95 Wizards earn money in the same way muggles do, quite clearly. Don't you remember how many wizards were employed in, say, the Ministry? And how there are wizards that own shops in Hogsmeade and probably-a-lot-of-other-places? I'd assume the Ministry of Magic gets it through taxes in the same way our ministry does, not because there is any proof but there isn't any reason NOT to believe this is how it works. Everything that wasn't mentioned in the books was assumed to be the same.
@swadhera95 I've always wondered what happened to the Pound-Galleon exchange rate each year when letters go out and hoards of Muggles visit DIagon Alley to buy stuff.
Cool! My sister introduced me to this site in eight grade when she gave me 25 dollars to loan. I have been loaning to people 25 dollars for over 5 years now :)
I'm curious how you feel about the fact that the third party loan companies Kiva works with charge the borrowers between 15% and 60% interest outside of Islamic countries?
@jalepenobutterfly Let's say it costs the MFI $50 to service a loan, regardless of the size of that loan. That includes the cost of their labor doing all the initial application and the regular weekly collection, buildings, gas for vehicles to travel half a day into the rural areas, etc. If the person is borrowing $5000 then $50 is only 1% of the amount lent. But with microlending, they may only be borrowing $200... so $50 is 25% of the total loan. MFIs also borrow from banks at interest.
John, as much as I love you and Sarah together as well and Hank and Katherine, I must say, if it ever doesn't work out for either of you, I'll gladly be your backup girl because, as an avid friends fan over the years, I would love to be Rachel Green.
Oh, if the economy wasn't so bad and it was easier to get a job I would be all over this. unfortunately, I am broke and have no job. Only a massive debt from a degree that doesn't seem to matter to any employer.
You know what sucks? Not being an adult and therefore having to involve my parents into an awkward discussion about decreasing world suck....
Dummweltschutz 1 day ago 2
@Dummweltschutz If your parents are halfway worth their salt they will be proud to help you to put some of your money in this. And if that doesn't work out, maybe you can find someone else trustworthy to help you do it. :)
Sahdirah 1 day ago
Just joined!
tyleroakley 2 days ago 3
I'm looking at the numbers from then and comparing them to what there is now and I'm just really really happy
karina5186 2 days ago
I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO PURCHASE BABY POOP! :)
mthsbandrocks 2 weeks ago in playlist Uploaded videos 2
If I get a job. and I'm paid every other week. And after all my money is set aside for things I have to pay for, and then I donate 25$ to Kiva.. and then the next payday, another 25$. Then I have 50 dollars that I have saved without saving. Hmm....
freezie656 2 weeks ago in playlist Vlogbrothers Playlist Part 5
As I was watching this , I happened to be reading looking for Alaska for the third time. My iPod had the video playing on my table and I was reading haha
baseballboy0101 3 weeks ago
kiva=keva
My name was said multiple times throughout this video.
thekevahart 1 month ago 2
"Appreciate my rugged good looks....." Well, John just go to a bank made up of entirely female Nerdfighters and I think they probably will XD
ThatOneChick2021 1 month ago 2
@applespice01 oh god i hope so
fvelez38 2 months ago
Just had to re-watch the awesome video that got me into Kiva, my newest obsession :)
bentn13 2 months ago 2
Not enough wall space for all the awesome posters in the world...ceiling time?
somepueblojerky 3 months ago 11
are you going to be making videos forever? Am I going to be watching when we're all old??
applespice01 3 months ago 7
kiva partners charge a good amount of intrest. perhaps necessary but there are some things i find wrong with kiva. do some research before you loan through them. I did.
Benpg93 3 months ago 2
There are no awesome bankers. There are only bankers that screw you or bankers that are getting ready to screw you. Peer to peer lending has done more than corrupt banks ever will.
jxsilicon9 4 months ago
I have been a part of Kiva for a long time!
coconutentertainment 4 months ago
I am teaching economics at a Sate University. We have been talking about the banking system and decided to show this in at the end of lecture today.
Fortythievez 4 months ago
this is a video that must have more views
episteme420 4 months ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers
I remember Kiva. It's a really good tool to help people NOT living in the U.S.A.
Or it WOULD be a good idea, I believe, if it did not strike me as a financial band-aide; which (much like leaving tips for one's Waiter) had the potential to further delay the correction of the ever-widening gap that is Socio-Economic Inequalities in our increasingly shrinking world economy. **gasp for air**
Don't worry, John. Some day soon, you're baby will pay YOU to poop. #Winning!
jimithingjames 4 months ago
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jimithingjames 4 months ago
Lend people money without any interest?
How about no.
Zhyef 4 months ago
@Zhyef
How about yes?It was once illegal to charge interest. Now banks charge interest that keeps you in debt forever.While the federal reserve gives them no interest loans.
jxsilicon9 4 months ago
I love when I watch vlogbrothers videos and learn something. Awesome!!:)
Natashalulu 5 months ago
I am philosophically in favor of living within one's means. Is there another organization where I could just donate the money and the people who get it will pay it forward once they've succeeded?
bandgeekmike 5 months ago
@bandgeekmike Well, you can indirectly do that I guess. Just keep re-investing the money on kiva as soon as you get it back!
barbariandude 5 months ago
John (and other nerdfighters), have you seen that the Nerdfighter team at Kiva has now essentially doubled the $30,000 they had before your message, and has set as a new goal $100,000 by January first. DFTBA.
Allyscribit 5 months ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers 2
Yeah this could be something
bdiap 5 months ago
You said bankers can REDUCE world suck, not bankers can PRODUCE world suck....right?
parisnpaige 5 months ago
@parisnpaige well they can do both as john pointed out now being a banker himself
kazooga1234 5 months ago
This isn't really about this banking/lending, but it is about decreasing world suck. Some friends of mine really need some help &I figure Nerdfighters would be willing 2 do what they could. See, they fell in love over a hike to raise domestic violence awareness, &he's trying to get legal status here in the US but it is so much money. If we can all take a look at this link and help, every bit helps them, who have done so much trying to decrease world suck. itsaboutpower.blogspot.com
anamolly2013 5 months ago
If this was a perfect world the food we eat would be pooped out as money that was equal to the cost of said noms lol recycling in a way
Dracofangstudios 5 months ago
Hhahaha I think the multiple copies of your books I buy provide you with lots and lots of baby poop.
emmfan09 5 months ago
Wasn't there another site with the same idea some time ago? Something with microfinancing..?
Kellerspinne 5 months ago
"Do I need to unbutton a button for you?"
Well, you don't NEED to, John, but I'm sure Nerdfighteria wouldn't mind... ;D
OkamiYasha369 5 months ago 5
Awesome! Glad you're talking about Kiva again!
dougfr007 5 months ago
Hey, At school we have to create a fake music concert for charity, and my charity that mine is based around is P4A!
XxxAnnaa96xxX 5 months ago
Don't worry - I never forget to be Awesome
JxaRs 5 months ago
finally someone who understands Marxism sucks.
cliffyknight 5 months ago
1 Week Later:
Membership - Increased by over 1,300 members
# of Loans - Increased by just under 1,000
Total Amount Loaned - Just under $60,000, almost double that of a week ago
:)
smartmoron62 5 months ago
33,725? try 59,175. DFTBA
SquintBones 5 months ago
I've been using Kiva for a few years now, and I have always been paid back, I think it's an amazing idea, charity without the charity part :P All you need is 25 dollars and you can keep lending it out for years
ImpracticalZoi 5 months ago
My AP economics class sells shirts every year and all the money goes to Kiva!
lampreynoise 5 months ago
im sad that there was no mark in the uk for the map =(
pipuk3 5 months ago
@pipuk3 The marks were to show where the money is going to. The UK is already a developed nation. :D
iammugget 5 months ago
John or Hank PLEASE do a video explaining the occupy wall street protests. There is no media coverage because no one is brave enough to talk about it. Fellow nerdfighters please thumbs this up so John and Hank might see and find out more about the protests. Copy and paste this to other vlogbrothers vids please.
HackySacFail 5 months ago 21
i want ftl
567hinata 5 months ago
Do you know about occupy wall street?
threaduponmydreams 5 months ago
@threaduponmydreams yea i've been waiting for them to do a video about that. did you hear about the 13-year old girl being arrested?
skatervamp31 5 months ago
@skatervamp31 No, I haven't, actually. I'm getting zero news coverage here in canada, don't know if it's the same down in the US, everything I know is through tumblr/independent media... I'd love for them to do a video on it. In fact, I'd love any intelligent debate/discussion on it, point.
threaduponmydreams 5 months ago
Instead of thinking of the poop your baby produces from that food, you could choose to think of the other things she does with that sustenance. Such as growing, playing, and being generally adorable. ;)
owlotter14 5 months ago
I just got my DFTBA posters in the mail. such wonderful christmas gifts!!
ashbo1322 5 months ago
when I see that we (nerdfighteria) almost doubled the total amount loaned on Kiva ($57,000 at this moment), I just get this happy feeling that we are indeed decreasing worldsuck. Thanks, nerdfighters.
AnneTUDUDUDU 5 months ago 3
I've been using Kiva to reduce world suck for years and I love it. So far I've also enjoyed a 100% repayment rate, but I really wonder what local organizations Kiva works with, and do those local groups charge these poor business people interest?
wordninja 5 months ago
How can we be sure this kiva group is not funding the wrong sort of things? Can you please address this or have kiva address?
tmlw08 5 months ago
Only if the baby poop has free shipping.
eusacioWa 5 months ago
i ordered my posters like 4 weeks ago, and there still not here....
TrappedInABirdCage 5 months ago
don't worry john you're not the only one with an expensive poop maker
daviddian 5 months ago
Kiva*
GusterAlex 5 months ago
JOHN! We talked about Kive in our Ammnesty meeting last week :) we are giving money to them as a club!
GusterAlex 5 months ago
I like how the picture of cosmetics showed a woman in front of an isle filled with candy.
Kippyan 5 months ago
It's been said once, but I feel the need to say it again.
John Green for President
MikiefKelly 5 months ago
Hmmm if you put this full screen, you can kind of see that this video was sped up. Rapid arm movement.
TheOisSilent 5 months ago
so you're saying I poop out money?
thunder16789 5 months ago 167
@thunder16789 yes... which is just another example that our economy is going to shit
Herschkobibl 5 months ago
This is awesome. Great initiative. Can you do more blogs on the economy, and money, and that kind of thing? Cuz this clip was way more fun and informative than any economics text book I have EVER crossed. How about doing something on the WTO?
AndyRiot 5 months ago
Is it me or does John's puff gradually rise as we move ahead in the video? :O
MegaDevilicAngel 5 months ago 146
My school has a micro-finance club that works with Kiva!!!
jordanleigh713 5 months ago
funny how western europe doesnt have anyone borrowing or lending money
m3my531f1 5 months ago
haha money is going to be pooped out
samikorpela 5 months ago
or maybe people could directly purchase some baby poop?
thenovadeus 5 months ago 2
SYSK has my Kiva dollars :( sorry
EliasSmeeus 5 months ago
Thanks for spreading the message on this, it seems like one of the most positives ways to donate to developing countries! I'm definitely going to be campaigning about this at my college.
aliceenter 5 months ago
YOUR COMING TO CHICAGO IN OCTOBER....YES!!!
acae1 5 months ago
I would love to indirectly purchase baby poop!
solitarydaydreamer 5 months ago
I don't mean to brag... but the Atheist group on Kiva is leading against the runner up by like half. Win.
Valstein0 5 months ago
Tak about decreasing world suck. Since you recorded this, Nerdfighteria has brought the total amount lent on Kiva.org to over $55,000!! And I'm about to give it another push...
ubuimkaren 5 months ago
John, don't get me wrong, I want to see funding for the maginalized. Your proposition about the credit crunch regarding banks holding cash as protection against a run on the bank. Consumer response (competition) is part of the regulation these bank guys should be facing - your (kiva's) scheme seems to reroute the bank's work to everyday people thus eliminating the banker's need to respond against the inefficiencies that trigger better practices. If banks are bad, people SHOULD withdraw the cash.
sinisterai 5 months ago
@swadhera95 i always wondered if Gringotts accounts had interest
raveygirl17 5 months ago
ok iv tryed to tell as many people asi can about varolo its not bullshit they will pay you to rate tv ad's its free takes 10mins a day online to do if you do join or just want to check it out go to my page and use my link to join so i get paid to thanks
ledhit 5 months ago
You should own stock in button-up shirts.
meggiemoo3939 5 months ago
I went to the bank today and got a credit card. Ironic?
Handitar 5 months ago
I love how the amount loaned by nerdfighters (as of now) increased by about $22,000 after this video. That's awesome. :)
Sunnyforever1234 5 months ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers
Didn't Lisa do this in the simpsons? :D
sheepbanana1 5 months ago
KIVA! I am so glad you made this video, i have been trying to get our school started on this for 2 years now!
chmbvideos 5 months ago
we did this in sunday school!!
lunacowberry12 5 months ago
John, just invest in For Human Peoples.
heymrk 5 months ago
this is awesome!
mons2010 5 months ago
I ordered that poster as a backup order ages ago and the money has left my bank but I have still not received my poster.. :( x
5ophie 5 months ago
only just started watching vlogbrothers so could someone tell me what is with the yellow thermometer-looking yoke in the backround? =S thanks x
Mslovelyxxx 5 months ago
@Mslovelyxxx John just published a new book, and he's promised to sign every single copy of the first printing. That turned out to be 150,000 copies so the Yeti made that progress bar to help him out. . . . He explains it in his July 27 video
hematitic 5 months ago
remember me to Stan from Monkey Island lol
Neobhaal 5 months ago
John!!! Puff levels are EXTREMELY high right now! Why? Because I was Sorted into Hufflepuff! :D
maichips 5 months ago
what DFTBA? :D
PrinnyMiggy 5 months ago
Kiva originally was fantastic. However since they've been sold they are terrible. The amount of money Kiva is now making combined with thier growing rate of shonky 'investigators' is causing the end user (poverty stricken entrepreneur) to suffer.
It's a pity that such an brilliant idea is being taken advantage of.
specialfae1989 5 months ago
@specialfae1989 I did at one point have a few hundred dollars in Kiva unfortunately I've been forced to remove it due the the problems mentioned above.
Please do your research before recommending.
specialfae1989 5 months ago
you're nearly at 70,000 (for books signed) cool! you're getting close to halfway! now that i have congradulated you on that, HURRY UP AND SEND THEM OUT! please
Looftyness 5 months ago
I would love to indirectly purchase some baby poop, it would be an honor.
TumnusLeFawn 5 months ago
Hey John, did you know you can auto-loan the money if you forget to sign in? I forget where the option is, but you pick what kind of countries, businesses, etc you want them to auto loan, and as soon as a loan is paid back... BAM they send it out again for you. I did this because I kept forgetting to sign in!
ThatOtherCaitlin 5 months ago
What do the video responses have anything to do with this video?
ultratog1028 5 months ago
DEAR JOHN GREEN,
I found Vlogbrothers around two months ago through a close friend, and that friend's name is Nora. I have to say the more she showed me your guys' videos, the more addicted I became and it was then that I realized that I am a Nerd Fighter. If it weren't for Nora, I wouldn't be watching all these great and inspiring videos! So I was wondering if, John, you could do a shout out to Nora for me on your next Question Tuesday. It would mean the world to her!
DFTBA,
KtRosemary
KtRosemary 5 months ago 2
The puff is back!
pancakesmofo 5 months ago
Can I just have the baby poop...?
FlamboyantSisters 5 months ago
Kiva is amazing. My city's rotary gives my school's Interact Club $400 just to loan on Kiva. My dad also does a lot of Kivaing. (Is that a word? I think that's a word now.)
hpfan429924 5 months ago
Donating to Kiva has done pleasant things to my insides.
AaronFeitelberg 5 months ago
We've donated 54.5k now on kiva. Makes me happy to see this happen. :)
standupsp3ak0ut 5 months ago
cool ^^ oh this is a question I've had for a while I can see a small amount of Manga in Hanks video's but I don't recognize them what are they?
Rainfallsinmyheart 5 months ago
John, the brazilian version of "Looking for Alaska" is translated as "Who are you Alaska?" and I'm a little bit annoyed by that. PLEASE don't let people do this kind of stuff with "The Fault in Our Stars".
howrudoinscheid 5 months ago
@Booksareepic I have no clue, but I've heard it alot through out the years(2 to be exact)Sorry.
ThePickypuppy 5 months ago
It is amazing what you and Hank get people to do for other people. :)
izzyqueens 5 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
In seventh grade, my Civ class donated 50 dollars a month to Kiva. We voted on who we were going to help each month. About half way through the year, we helped a guy with 6 kids get back on his feet. It was awesome.
rachelsaunicorn 5 months ago
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rachelsaunicorn 5 months ago
JOHN i tried to indirectly buy baby poop but my mom's paypall account said she had to "verify" that it was her and that's never happened before... so she wouldn't get it bc she doesn't know your site... is there a way to buy stuff online w/o paypall?
FrizbeeChique77 5 months ago
1:32 - 1:35
*boner*
If John Green offered to unbutton a button for me, you bet your ASS I'd give him whatever the hell he was asking for!.
Methanphedamine 5 months ago
Hey I Love Your Channel And Your vids!! could you come check my channel out I got some vids you would like also!!!
YouMotherIsAwsome
YouMotherIsAwsome 5 months ago
For the first time I actually saw someone at my university with an DFTBA shirt on,
so naturally I was all exited, shouted DFTBA, did the sign..... NO reaction at all! *sob*
lottetje88 5 months ago 2
its fun watching john's latest videos in chronological order so you can see the number of books boxes decrease and the little-red-sign-thermometer-thing go up!
GinjaNinjaKaratedo 5 months ago
John Green,
Aruguably, your concerns about emerging country small business financing may be overblown.
1) Emerging countries often peg their currency with US allowing them to import low interest rate policies
2) Emerging country small businesses have high interest rates typically due to transaction costs and much less to do with interest rates
3) Kiva is awesome, regardless of points 1 and 2.
aliew27 5 months ago
a bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don't need it
inmyeyes11 5 months ago 3
I've got enough baby poop!
blogprincess 5 months ago
ok so yeah, like, microfinance is a pretty cool way to ~help people in developing countries, but I think there are quite a few problems with supporting Kiva; many of the MFIs Kiva partners with are essentially loan sharks - quite a large proportion are charging interest in the 60-70% range, which i think seems unjustifiable even when you take into account instability and lack of banking infrastructure. how exactly is debt slavery decreasing world suck????
floiginwoigin 5 months ago
support nerdfighteria, man!
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MsThinkification 5 months ago
But how will I get to break the struggling 1.5%'s legs? Not to mention, a lot of them have probably already had at least one of their legs blown off...
electricmaster23 5 months ago
Whe he said "indirectly purchase some baby poop" my body inadvertantly made a giant squid of JOY!
busvlogger 5 months ago
I want to DIRECTLY purchase baby poop!
EpicBlobMonster 5 months ago
pause @ 1:36...French the Llama, john you have a crazy chest hair, its like Austin Powers Hot.
mrsdylan77 5 months ago
I donated $100 to Kiva, and I've been re-loaning that same $100 for over a year and it makes me feel good inside. DFTBA :)
xkeirnyn 5 months ago
Kiva means "fun" or "nice" in Finnish... just thought you'd wanna know :)
Zirrvurr 5 months ago
What you forget to mention, John, is that to transfer the money from you to the entrepreneur, you have banking costs. Each entrepreneur who takes your money for his idea, ends up paying the banking fees to withdraw and then deposit back the money you loan to him. We are not the bankers - by investing in this ideas we are basically charity venture capitalists (true venture capitalist ask for a return/profit on their investment). The bankers are still in the picture, transferring our money across.
archivesbc 5 months ago
Yesterday my 8th grade class did a "My Turn" thing, where we talk about our favorite book. The person who went in front of me did Looking for Alaska. The one I did, well, lets just say, there were 19 Katherines in it. :D
NERDGASM DFTBA
KINDspotting 5 months ago
dude if you need 100 bucks just ask bro
JamesGoesOnandOn 5 months ago
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Javjean 5 months ago
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Wait, so:
i) You don't earn interest from loaning money to people through Kiva?
ii) There is a 1.5% chance of not getting your money back, on EVERY transaction?
iii) It costs $25 to join?
iv) It costs a lot of time, where you could be working and earning money.
What the fuck is the point of kiva? Or am I missing something? (I'm taking this from the viewpoint of being a LENDER).
Pokemongo1 5 months ago
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Pokemongo1 5 months ago
yes to unbuttoning the button!
Thestupidlittlegirl 5 months ago 124
I just finished An Abundance of Katherine's, and honestly... I can't stop saying "fugger" now.
TheFreakinAce 5 months ago
We appreciate your rugged good looks.
MrImwatchingyouuu 5 months ago 2
I'm glad you're still supporting Kiva. I saw your older videos and wondered if you still used it.
pipernoswiping 5 months ago 2
Kiva is a great site! We did it for our Legacy Project in the Eighth grade and it was a blast, I think our class (150 students or so) raising around 6,000 dollars.
Lovergirl7931 5 months ago 2
You mean we sit on a big pile of Inflation. Not loaning money out means the Fed isnt printing more money to loan out to you. Every time they loan money out they have to cover that in printed money. That causes items to go up in price.
InfantryGeek 5 months ago
John, I know that you often discuss Muggle Economics, but I was wondering if you could help explain the controversy over Wizarding Economics. I mean I get that Gringotts is the equivalent of their Federal Reserve and what not, but well first of all, how do most wizards make money? How does the Ministry of Magic get money? Is Gringotts just an extension of the Ministry? There are just so many things about wizard economics that have remained unsaid. A video about this would be cool. DFTBA
swadhera95 5 months ago 300
@swadhera95 Wizards earn money in the same way muggles do, quite clearly. Don't you remember how many wizards were employed in, say, the Ministry? And how there are wizards that own shops in Hogsmeade and probably-a-lot-of-other-places? I'd assume the Ministry of Magic gets it through taxes in the same way our ministry does, not because there is any proof but there isn't any reason NOT to believe this is how it works. Everything that wasn't mentioned in the books was assumed to be the same.
StyrofoamBlade 5 months ago 2
@swadhera95 I've always wondered what happened to the Pound-Galleon exchange rate each year when letters go out and hoards of Muggles visit DIagon Alley to buy stuff.
LKBM 5 months ago
Andy Dufrense...the most awesome banker.
WelshGreen8225 5 months ago
OH MY GOD! We are changing the world dramatically! :D
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KillersAreQuietSoShh 5 months ago
:D
There is a picture of that poster in one of my phone apps.
MUST. GO. FAVORITE.
XD
SuperNekofan 5 months ago
I actually heard of Kiva before through Atheist networks, which are the largest contributors on Kiva.
Gr8Hat 5 months ago
i need to go purchase some baby poop... wait..john can i just send you baby poop instead? i dont like being indirect! XD
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xieniai 5 months ago
I would like to directly buy baby poop. Thanks in advance.
tooontube 5 months ago
My DFTBA poster came crushed, not awesome. :'(
brahitsemily 5 months ago
Indirectly is my favorite way to purchase baby poop
MrROFLKNIFE 5 months ago 2
I always want to indirectly purchase baby poop.
snorlax42 5 months ago
where did the "keep calm and ..." come from?
n0o0o0o0o0o 5 months ago
Cool! My sister introduced me to this site in eight grade when she gave me 25 dollars to loan. I have been loaning to people 25 dollars for over 5 years now :)
purplesully 5 months ago
I just read Looking for Alaska last night and I can't believe
*Spoilers*
That you haven't read it yet! Read it!
-DFTBA
pendragonmalasia 5 months ago
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pendragonmalasia 5 months ago
this so helps with global studies dude
urbstephanie 5 months ago
I saw your name printed on the back of "Catching Fire" , and I thought .."what a small world".
YADADADADADADAKABOOM 5 months ago
I'm curious how you feel about the fact that the third party loan companies Kiva works with charge the borrowers between 15% and 60% interest outside of Islamic countries?
jalepenobutterfly 5 months ago
@jalepenobutterfly Let's say it costs the MFI $50 to service a loan, regardless of the size of that loan. That includes the cost of their labor doing all the initial application and the regular weekly collection, buildings, gas for vehicles to travel half a day into the rural areas, etc. If the person is borrowing $5000 then $50 is only 1% of the amount lent. But with microlending, they may only be borrowing $200... so $50 is 25% of the total loan. MFIs also borrow from banks at interest.
nuclearspike 5 months ago
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Priest007 5 months ago
lol i was at a kiva meeting today!!
sureempire 5 months ago
John, as much as I love you and Sarah together as well and Hank and Katherine, I must say, if it ever doesn't work out for either of you, I'll gladly be your backup girl because, as an avid friends fan over the years, I would love to be Rachel Green.
guavajuice1 5 months ago
You should definitely unbutton more buttons. /creepy
abbyjewels315 5 months ago
Oh, if the economy wasn't so bad and it was easier to get a job I would be all over this. unfortunately, I am broke and have no job. Only a massive debt from a degree that doesn't seem to matter to any employer.
cizzim 5 months ago
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Taooe 5 months ago
I want to indirectly buy some baby poop...
cadisaurusrex 5 months ago
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Hmm.. there's must be a better thing for people to do than make posters.
Nashy119 5 months ago
On the one hand... why would I want to indirectly purchase baby poop from John Green, when I have my own baby poop factory at home?
On the other hand... I have already bought the French the Llama poster.
m4rcus4ur31ius 5 months ago
As always John I am in awe of your brilliance and humor
MegaHappyteeth 5 months ago