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Iinnovative "compassionate capitalists" who have created
self-sustaining business enterprises that are designed to maximize
human benefit, not profit.
Technology that transforms life is often out of reach of the
impoverished in the undeveloped world. The second episode explores
the ethics and work of innovative "compassionate capitalists," who
have created self-sustaining business enterprises that are designed
to maximize human benefit, not profit. Applying the segmented labor
process of a fast food restaurant to what is normally routine eye
surgery in the Western world, an Indian doctor and American
businessman have together created a healthcare and business model
that provides 200,000 cataract surgeries a year to prevent
unnecessary blindness. Recognizing that poor irrigation was
diminishing the fertility of land in Kenya, the founders of
ApproTEC invented a manually operated low-cost water pump that can
double the yield of a small farm. In remote areas of Brazil, the
population lives without electricity - without the lights,
refrigerators and other appliances that much of the world takes for
granted. That is changing through the determination of Fabio Rosa,
who has spent 20 years challenging corporate power, government
bureaucracy and the diminished expectations of the poor that they
too can have electricity.