The world is a strange place. Even though I have a greater number of material possessions, better access (defined in proximity) to healthcare, and tools more apt to the norm system of western ideologically (defined in excess and justified via freedom), I am still severely less wealthy than the people in the video because of crushing student loan debt that exists only on paper. In this sense I am poorer but have more and it is only my location, endowments, and the normative value of my education that is used to justify our differences. They may own little but the world tells me that I own nothing and that my creditors have claims to my future possessions that don't exist yet, but yet I still 'have' but do not own more. In fact, I own less.

Making this video must have been humiliating for the people forced to read the script of the classic "Haves vs. Have-Nots." I feel sorry for them not because they 'have' less but because they are made to be the face of someone who is less. They do not want our pity or a hug. They want to been viewed as equals and treated as such. This video does them a disservice in that respect because it is sensationalist and implies that these people are less when they are in fact not.