@paulg You are wrong. Inequality is a result of choices we make as a society. It is not a technological inevitability!
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@timoreilly That has a nice sound to it, but I can disprove it simply by going on vacation for a year. -
@paulg@timoreilly I am with Tim. It's like you are saying poor of today are same 0 they were 500 years ago? No way. They are better "0". -
@alexiskold Who said anything about the poor? Someone who does nothing creates no wealth. Surely that is invariant. -
@paulg I probably misunderstood. I thought you meant that tools widen economic gap, and that I don't agree with.
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@paulg Tools shouldn't decrease the wealth of the people using them. That's an economic system artifact. -
@jstogdill My point is that tools increase their wealth, but by varying amounts, yielding increased inequality. -
@paulg@jstogdill Paul, it's just incorrect. Internet is a tool, I would argue it's decreases inequality -
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@paulg@jstogdill I would argue against. Even the internet increased inequality. -
@mklarmann@paulg@jstogdill worldwide ? No, it didn't. Plus in the US it's not clear. Worldwide inequality FELL
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@paulg not *all* tools multiply output. Some make it possible for people with certain handicaps to go from 0 to something. - 1 more reply
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@paulg actually said something correct – he just forgot to put “Under capitalism,” at the beginninghttps://twitter.com/paulg/status/578260709131329536 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg Conclusion: Pro-equality is anti-progress?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg but it also feels like the shape of the distribution is changing, not simply the scale.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg except tools that lower barriers to entry, address disabilities, are more valuable to low or mid-range users than power users, etc… -
@paulg tools certainly exist to increase output, but acting like it's usually a linear relationship seems (harmfully) reductive
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@paulg Improved farm implements didn't make farmers poorer. -
@jstogdill@paulg One can also argue that cheaper and more efficient tools lower the barrier of entry thus driving down inequality
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@paulg then why has poverty dropped more in the last 15 years than ever in human history? http://www.macleans.ca/politics/worldpolitics/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-poverty/ … cc@timoreilly - 1 more reply
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