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To: marek_wojna who wrote (3492)5/7/2001 1:33:59 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74559
 
>>I wish to propose you take some time off and travel the world - see the everyday life of 90% of worlds population, don't ever try to say " they are to blame themselves", for them all technology, so called progress means even bigger misery than they were facing 50 years ago.<<

In what sense "bigger misery"? More to eat, longer life expectancy, better health care, more education. No?

Where do you live and why is it worse there?

>>Even B.Gates was honest enough to admit that information revolution while it brought incredible wealth to very narrow margin, brought even bigger poverty to the rest.<<

How so?

>>I'm afraid creation of rich becoming richer is coming to abrupt STOP. Someone forgot about customers having money to pay, and I can assure you when you hungry - the splitting of atoms, cathedrals and fiber optics are least in your head, while earnings expectation for most of high-techs are taking in account population of the whole globe, not only G-7.<<

Whole globe includes China and India, right? Is this guy lying when he says the improvement in the Chinese and Indian economies has been phenomenal?

j-bradford-delong.net

>>Maybe easy Al will send credit card to every citizen of the world. Do you think it can work?<<

No such thing as a free lunch.



To: marek_wojna who wrote (3492)5/13/2001 9:46:47 AM
From: Ilaine  Respond to of 74559
 
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