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If twenty percent of the population controls eighty percent of the wealth, why should you ever care about the remaining eighty percent of the population? They c
by arjie 10y ago
If twenty percent of the population controls eighty percent of the wealth, why should you ever care about the remaining eighty percent of the population? They can't pay you, so your success or failure in their markets need not determine your success or failure in general.
Just like with electricity, the Internet, and air travel, the poor will be last. And a lot of people can do very well for themselves by putting the poor last.
- aninhumer 10y agoI'm not really sure what your point is here, other than "global inequality sucks"? Should we arbitrarily stop development of self-driving cars until poorer countries' infrastructure can support them? How would that help anyone?
- Ntrails 10y agoThere was no implied position on global inequality being good or bad - just a reality check. Peru will be irrelevant to the viability of the project in the short term