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.