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    1. Benedict Evans‏Verified account @benedictevans 24 Aug 2014

      Most tech innovation is attacked as 'rich people's toys', but ends up giving the poor things that previously only the rich could have

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    2. James‏ @oraeekene 24 Aug 2014
      Replying to @benedictevans

      @BenedictEvans @paulg then why is the economic inequality growing globally?

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    3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 24 Aug 2014
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      @oraelosikenny01 @BenedictEvans In some places because of corruption, and in others because technology is a lever.

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    4. James‏ @oraeekene 24 Aug 2014
      Replying to @paulg

      @paulg @BenedictEvans so how can we get technology to battle corruption and become a lever in less enabled regions?

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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 24 Aug 2014
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      @oraelosikenny01 @BenedictEvans See the last section of http://paulgraham.com/inequality.html  for my guess.

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        2. Benedict Evans‏Verified account @benedictevans 24 Aug 2014
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          @paulg @oraelosikenny01 lots of SMS/WhatsApp initiatives around corruption in India. Tech can add leverage, but comms change lots of things

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        2. Luis Sanz‏ @lsanza 24 Aug 2014
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          @paulg @oraelosikenny01 @BenedictEvans actually, global inequality is falling, not rising http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/upshot/income-inequality-is-not-rising-globally-its-falling-.html?referrer=&_r=0 …

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        1. James‏ @oraeekene 24 Aug 2014
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          @paulg larger teamups will only occur to hand larger projects.

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        1. James‏ @oraeekene 24 Aug 2014
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          @paulg crowdsourced projects such as Mozilla are great eg of this. Company basically individual/small team setup, barely any central command

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        1. James‏ @oraeekene 24 Aug 2014
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          @paulg finally I believe there is one way for large companies to innovate like startups: the company structure should be distributed

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        1. James‏ @oraeekene 24 Aug 2014
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          @paulg problem is, true free market wouldn't remove inequality by reducing the gap, it would do so by killing off the poor. Evolution

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        1. James‏ @oraeekene 24 Aug 2014
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          @paulg in the end I do agree with you that we can't completely remove inequality. To do so would mean introducing a true free market economy

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        1. James‏ @oraeekene 24 Aug 2014
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          @paulg this is the basis of artificial intelligence: the hive mind is always more efficient than centrally located intelligence

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        1. James‏ @oraeekene 24 Aug 2014
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          @paulg only all those minds, voting directly on the system (without intermediaries) can best order and police the system

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        1. James‏ @oraeekene 24 Aug 2014
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          @paulg its simply because of one thing: humans are flawed + one human mind can never accurately decode the majority wish of all other minds

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        1. James‏ @oraeekene 24 Aug 2014
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          @paulg as long as there can be non voted appointees into the policy making process, the current democratic system can be hijacked

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        1. James‏ @oraeekene 24 Aug 2014
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          @paulg democracy makes the electorate also the judge, but as long as we vote individuals not policies, its current expression is flawed

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        1. James‏ @oraeekene 24 Aug 2014
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          @paulg problem is, psychology comes into play. What of if the perpetrator and (would-be) judge share similar interests? Who then arbitrates?

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        1. James‏ @oraeekene 24 Aug 2014
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          @paulg transparency would only work when there is a judge, outside of the scope of the perpetrator, with enough power to subdue

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        1. James‏ @oraeekene 24 Aug 2014
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          @paulg what of if there was no external system. Perpetrators wouldn't mind: they control the regulatory system anyway

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        1. James‏ @oraeekene 24 Aug 2014
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          @paulg secrecy is only needed because there are judicial/legal systems independent of the perpetrators

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        1. James‏ @oraeekene 24 Aug 2014
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          @paulg my second thought is on transparency being the solution to corruption. That could be faulted

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