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The original comment I replied to, when I replied to it seems like it was edited by the poster and--as written, was asking what the Facebook currency could port
by dvtrn 7y ago
The original comment I replied to, when I replied to it seems like it was edited by the poster and--as written, was asking what the Facebook currency could portend for emerging economies in Africa. I found it odd that the question would get pushed so far down into almost invisible greyness.
As it's written now a lot of that focus and nuance is gone, which is a shame because it was a very good question IMO.
- petre 7y agoYou realize that many people in Africa still live in huts without electricity? Facebook currency being widely used in Africa is no more absurd than asking all Indian citizens to receive all their income via a bank account.
- rexarex 7y agoDon’t need electricity to get cell service mate. Most people have mobile phones even if they live in a hut.
- petre 7y agoAnd they charge their phones how exactly? At work? Using solar panels? I've also seen roma communities in Europe that live in huts but almost every one of these huts as a sat TV antenna and an illegal electricity connection. But what happens when your village doesn't even have an electricity infrastructure?
- sdenton4 7y agoMeanwhile, the first time I was ever in a livestream - on facebook, no less - was on a hike outside of Abuja in Nigeria...
- dvtrn 7y ago“Many people in Africa live in huts” This might blow your mind to hear but the continent of Africa is comprised of many countries, several of which have had electricity for a long damn time, my friend. Some even have, wait for it, CITIES. That people live in. With houses made from brick. And internet access. The fast kind even! You'll have to do better than acting as if Africa can be sufficiently defined by its least developed nations. Or, at least, you should have actually read the link--at least then you would have seen how the "many people in Africa live in huts" line isn't really a helpful assertion to the discussion the rest of us were trying to have about Pan-African economics.