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Probably because it does not translate into food, health, and shelter security for the vast majority of people.
by gedy 8y ago
Probably because it does not translate into food, health, and shelter security for the vast majority of people.
- dominotw 8y agosure if you don't have those already, I am sure gp does have food, healthcare. I was curious if better tech makes your richer if you already have food, healthcare, security covered. Richer doesn't necessarily mean we have more food than before.
- CamTin 8y agoIt should mean that we have better security in all of those things. Any increase in "wealth" that doesn't actually make us better off in the sense that we are less likely to lack necessary things like food, healthcare, and shelter is not really a kind of wealth worth having. All but the most very very rich people in the US are just a couple bad breaks away from homelessness, poverty, and lack of reasonable health insurance. It's better elsewhere but the safety net is not immutable and many many people want to dismantle it for shallow political reasons.