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> Large leaps in technology have always, and will always, benefit the wealthiest 1% at the beginning. This is just the basics of capital in a capitalistic socie

• dragonwriter 11y ago
  > > Large leaps in technology have always, and will always, benefit the wealthiest 1% at the beginning. > What about the Green Revolution? The "Green Revolution" is a term applied largely to the wealthiest 1% deciding to fairly directly forgo some part of the short-term returns from certain technical developments to purchase longer-term sociopolitical security and greater long term profits, specifically, to forgo some of the short-term profits of new agricultural technology to head-off dissatisfaction that might lead to Communist revolutions and instead get large parts of the world positively engaged with both specific product lines and the more general neoliberal economic model. It certainly is not a counterexample to the technological changes benefitting the wealthiest in the short term.
• pdeuchler 11y ago
  Honest question, do you mean to imply the Green Revolution did not follow this pattern? From my understanding it followed the pattern exactly by spawning the creation of the huge food production conglomerates we have today while also greatly enriching vestiges of colonial powers as the movement grew to feed the "global hungry". The last three paragraphs of this section of the wikipedia page more or less confirm it fit the pattern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution#Criticism