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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@paulg @oraelosikenny01 lots of SMS/WhatsApp initiatives around corruption in India. Tech can add leverage, but comms change lots of things - 2 more replies
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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 … - 1 more reply
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@paulg larger teamups will only occur to hand larger projects.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg crowdsourced projects such as Mozilla are great eg of this. Company basically individual/small team setup, barely any central commandThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg finally I believe there is one way for large companies to innovate like startups: the company structure should be distributedThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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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. EvolutionThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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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 economyThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg this is the basis of artificial intelligence: the hive mind is always more efficient than centrally located intelligenceThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg only all those minds, voting directly on the system (without intermediaries) can best order and police the systemThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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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 mindsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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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 hijackedThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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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 flawedThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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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?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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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 subdueThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg what of if there was no external system. Perpetrators wouldn't mind: they control the regulatory system anywayThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg secrecy is only needed because there are judicial/legal systems independent of the perpetratorsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg my second thought is on transparency being the solution to corruption. That could be faultedThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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