Adam Ruins Everything - Why "Buy One, Give One" Companies Don't Help Anyone

[Music] we all know Tom Sheila there by one give one business model has made them massively successful what if I started a shoe company and every time I sold a pair of shoes I gave a pair away [Music] well there is no tom oh no he's just a myth like Santa Claus I know I was surprised too but the real owner of Tom's is a guy named Blake Mycoskie and as Noble as Blake's intentions may be the buy one give one model is incredibly misguided [Music] I'm sorry I don't know how to talk to kids great so we're done here yeah let's leave [Music] that's my show so I could just like whatever it's not common knowledge but before Blake founded TOMS shoes he was a reality star who appeared on The Amazing Race and Fox's sexiest bachelor an America pageant where he gave away something even more valuable than shoes dad ass really whoa but while on a trip to Argentina Blake saw the devastating effects of poverty with his own person blue eyes and he decided then and there to devote his life to helping the needy by giving them shoes yeah he's a generous guy is he is it generous to give people something they don't want or need what are you talking about people in those countries need shoes do they yeah how do you know I don't know uh when I picture someone in Africa I imagine them living in a village you know with no shoes and no clothes and they live in this cute little hut with an elephant and everyone's always playing music and walking around with water jugs on their heads oh my god this is kind of sending isn't it tell you what why don't we just ask someone from Africa yeah we should prep you let's do that hey Teddy how's it going I want you to meet my friend Emily do you have shoes in Uganda surprisingly yes we do have shoes we also have shoe stores and we also have cobbler but what about those TOMS ads you know with with all the videos of the shoeless children that's what we call poverty porn they find in the most extreme situations and make it look like the most common situation on the continent shoes is the least of our problems really guys no worried about malaria worried about getting jobs were just worried about having electricity in the village for example if those kids don't need free shoes why do they take them in the first place a kid doesn't understand the ramifications of me receiving these free shoes from somebody in America like what kind of ramifications well what it does is actually put people who are creating shoes right out of business you take some way the agency of the to be self-sustaining yeah one study showed that free clothing donations to Africa reduced employment in their garment industry by half what claim and here's the kicker the shoes Tom's gives away cost them only four dollars to make oh wait they cost sixty so if I get a pair of four-dollar shoes and they give away a pair of four-dollar shoes where do the other 52 dollars go look Tom's may kind of act like they're charity but they're a for-profit company and last year blake sold his stake in toms in a deal that valued them at six hundred million dollars corporations are so evil oh no look corporations are capable of doing plenty of good in the world like when they contribute to local economies but the buy one give one model doesn't help anyone Wow oh my god Wow you are not good at teaching

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Length: 4min 9sec (249 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 25 2015