Shadowing-Übung: The Problem with Billionaires — and the Debut of True Net Worth | Randall Lane | TED - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit YouTube

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I am a journalist, trained as a journalist, but I spent most of my last 35 years as an anthropologist.
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I am a journalist, trained as a journalist, but I spent most of my last 35 years as an anthropologist.
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I've kind of been embedded with a very unique subspecies.
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You might know them by their Latin name, Billionaires Maximus.
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And when I got to Forbes out of college in 1991, there were all of 274 billionaires in the world.
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It was a very aspirational little club.
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You know, Bruno Mars in his song "Billionaire" sings of dreaming of being on the cover of Forbes magazine, standing next to Oprah and the Queen.
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Well, you know, fast forward, if we did that cover now, it would be very crowded.
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Forbes tracks 3,428 people we believe have a net worth right now of a billion dollars or more.
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And they all have one thing in common.
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Who wants to know the secret of every billionaire right now in the world, which is nobody likes them.
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Forbes and HarrisX conducted a survey a couple of weeks ago [of] 1,009 Americans.
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The results are not good.
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Trial lawyers are kicking billionaires' ass.
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(Laughter) They are tied with members of Congress.
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They are barely beating TikTok influencers.
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(Laughter) But there's a disconnect going on right now because the world needs billionaires.
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The world desperately needs billionaires.
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If you look at countries that have billionaires, they tend to have all the things that we all love: progress, jobs, growth.
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Let's go to China.
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At the beginning of this century, there were no Chinese billionaires on the Forbes list, and almost 500 million people lived in extreme poverty.
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Fast forward 20 years, it's almost the opposite.
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Almost 500 Chinese billionaires and no one living in extreme poverty.
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That is not a coincidence.
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If you go to Nigeria, one of the largest countries in the world by population, only four billionaires, about 100 million people live in extreme poverty.
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There are no billionaires in Cuba.
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There are no billionaires in Iran.
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There are no billionaires in Belarus.
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History shows that incentive creates personal wealth and societal wealth.
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When you cap earnings, that correlates with repression and stagnation.
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So why all the hate?
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Why all the hate?
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Wealth disparity is some of it.
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In a few weeks, if SpaceX goes public as scheduled, Forbes believes that at that moment, Elon Musk will become the world's first trillionaire.
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That's a million million.
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But here's the deal.
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Elon is no richer, not much richer at least when you measure by GDP, [than] John D. Rockefeller when he became the world's first billionaire a hundred years ago.
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John D. Rockefeller, he was an OG monopolist.
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But by the end of his life, doing lots of good works, he was highly respected.
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Andrew Carnegie even more so.
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People don't resent billionaires.
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People want to become billionaires.
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People resent billionaires when they forget that the purpose of business is to create happiness, not who dies with the most toys.
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(Applause) So here's the scorecard.
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Right now, here are the five richest people in the world, all Americans, all with a net worth north of 200 billion dollars.
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Forbes tracks pretty much every billionaire in terms of how much they give to charity -- how much winds up, [and the] end result into charity.
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Right now, these five collectively, [their] competitive net worth, less than one percent of their net worth, has been donated to charity: 0.9 percent.
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Compare that with the average American -- teacher, fireman -- [who] gives two percent of his or her income to charity.
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That gap, as somebody who loves entrepreneurial capitalism and defends entrepreneurial capitalism, bothers me.
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That gap is why there are pitchforks.
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But that gap is something we can address ...
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by leaning into the final decision maker that a lot of billionaires have when they decide if they're going to be philanthropic or not, which is their egos.
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It turns out that a lot of people care about where they are on various Forbes lists.
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In fact, in 1982, the very first Forbes 400, we had one tycoon who helped us create an immutable law of wealth tracking: the Trump rule.
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Take what the Donald tells you, divide by three and refine from there.
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Saudi Arabia's Prince Al Waleed created an entire public company, basically to get higher on the Forbes list.
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Every year before the Forbes issue came out, the billionaires issue, he would buy up his own stock, pump up his own stock, and after it came out, he would sell it.
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Look, it’s like a 10-digit cardiogram there.
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(Laughter) Kylie Jenner's team gave us what we believe are bogus numbers about her company to get onto the Forbes billionaires list, and she's not even the thirstiest member of the Kardashian family.
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(Laughter) During COVID, Kanye West called me maybe every other day.
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We talked about an hour at a time, mostly about how he thinks he was richer than we said he was.
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When we respectfully disagreed, he respectfully responded by tweeting my cell phone to 30 million followers on Twitter.
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(Laughter) That was a tough day.
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(Laughter) But Kanye inspired an idea.
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Why can't we lean into this strange leverage we have over some people?
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Why can't we create a list that rewards people for donating to charity versus penaliz[ing] them by taking them further down on the Forbes list?
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(Applause) So we've created something called True Net Worth, and we're going to debut it right here.
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(Cheers and applause) True Net Worth is your regular net worth, combined with the money you've donated that we appreciate like you still own it.
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(Applause) Here is a refresher.
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Here are the top five in the world.
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Here are the top five by true net worth.
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(Applause) Look at my friend Warren Buffett.
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He's already given more away, in today's dollars, than he still has.
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He's pledged 99 percent of what's left to charity, and he stipulated that all that money has to be spent down within 10 years of his death, as opposed to just sitting in a foundation, gathering interest for years.
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(Applause) That's true net worth.
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Now let's look at the biggest movers on this list.
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(Applause and cheers) MacKenzie Scott is giving away money faster, smarter, no-strings-attached than pretty much anyone in history.
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She's the 84th richest person in the world by net worth.
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She's 26th by true net worth.
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(Cheers and applause) People don't value what you can't measure.
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True net worth offers role models for billionaires, for millionaires, for thousandaires.
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Give while you live.
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Give faster and bigger maybe than you're comfortable with, give your money or your time.
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But what all of it does is support the system that makes all of us prosperous.
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Thank you. (Cheers and applause)

Warum das Sprechen mit diesem Video üben?

Das Üben des Sprechens mit diesem Video von Randall Lane bietet Englischlernenden eine hervorragende Gelegenheit, ihre mündlichen Fähigkeiten zu verbessern. Lane’s interessante Analyse über Billionäre und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Gesellschaft gibt nicht nur Einblicke in wirtschaftliche Themen, sondern fordert auch kritisches Denken und Diskussion. Das Video regt dazu an, über soziale Ungleichheit und den Einfluss von Reichtum nachzudenken. Durch das Englisch Sprechen üben in einem relevanten und aufschlussreichen Kontext kann man nicht nur den Wortschatz erweitern, sondern auch seine Argumentationsfähigkeiten stärken.

Grammatik & Ausdrücke im Kontext

In diesem Video werden mehrere wichtige Strukturen verwendet, die sich für Lernende als nützlich erweisen können:

  • „Who wants to know the secret...“ – Diese Formulierung verwendet die indirekte Frage, die zum Fragen von Informationen sehr nützlich ist.
  • „There are no billionaires in...“ – Hier wird die Struktur „there is/are“ verwendet, um Existenz auszudrücken, eine essentielle Struktur in der englischen Sprache.
  • „If we did that cover now...“ – Das ist ein Beispiel für die bedingte Form, die in Hypothesen verwendet wird und sehr praktisch für Diskussionen ist.
  • „...to create happiness, not who dies with the most toys.“ – Hier sehen wir einen klaren Kontrast, der in der Argumentation effektiv eingesetzt wird.

Durch das Englisch Shadowing dieser Strukturen kann man nicht nur das Sprechen üben, sondern auch das Verständnis für grammatikalische Konstruktionen stärken.

Geme common Sprachhindernisse

Im Video gibt es einige Wörter und Phrasen, die für Lernende eine Herausforderung darstellen könnten. Achten Sie auf:

  • „billionaires“ – Die Betonung auf der zweiten Silbe („bil-LION-aires“) ist oft schwer zu greifen.
  • „congress“ – Der weichere Laut des „g“ kann schwierig sein; achten Sie auf die richtige Aussprache.
  • „incentive“ – Hier kann die Verbindung der Silben und der Stummlaut am Ende (das „e“) irreführend sein.

Das gezielte Üben dieser Wörter im Rahmen des shadow speech kann erheblich dazu beitragen, die Aussprache zu verbessern und Selbstvertrauen zu tanken, während Sie Englisch sprechen üben. Nutzen Sie also diese Möglichkeiten und integrieren Sie sie in Ihre täglichen Sprachübungen!

Was ist die Shadowing-Technik?

Shadowing ist eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Sprachlerntechnik, die ursprünglich für die professionelle Dolmetscherausbildung entwickelt und durch den Polyglotten Dr. Alexander Arguelles populär gemacht wurde. Die Methode ist einfach aber wirkungsvoll: Du hörst englisches Audio von Muttersprachlern und wiederholst es sofort laut — wie ein Schatten, der dem Sprecher mit nur 1–2 Sekunden Verzögerung folgt. Anders als passives Hören oder Grammatikübungen zwingt Shadowing dein Gehirn und deine Mundmuskulatur, gleichzeitig echte Sprachmuster zu verarbeiten und zu reproduzieren. Studien zeigen, dass es Aussprachegenauigkeit, Intonation, Rhythmus, verbundene Sprache, Hörverständnis und Sprechflüssigkeit signifikant verbessert — was es zu einer der effektivsten Methoden für die IELTS Speaking-Vorbereitung und reale englische Kommunikation macht.

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