This video is sponsored by Brilliant. Keep exploring at https://brilliant.org/ExplainedwithDom/. Get started for free, and hurry—the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription.

This is Hong Kong. The financial capital of Asia, a place filled with incredible wealth and home of more ultra-high-net-worth individuals than any other place on the planet. But Hong Kong is also a place where every fourth person lives below the poverty line, where the elderly are forced to scavenge for waste just to survive and where hundreds of thousands of people live in the urban hell of so-called cage homes. So, how did that happen?

Check out my Patreon:
  / explainedwithdom