In some ways it is.
Feelings are more important than facts for adherents to science only when it suits.
But in one important measure – GDP per head, life is improving for rich and poor.
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Technology is helping with the improvement.
When we were in Zambia a few years ago, we learned how mobile banking had enabled poor people to have accounts where their wages were electronically deposited and from which they could make payments.
This was both safer, and far more convenient than cash and the need to travel long distances to a bank.
Ele Ludemann is a North Otago farmer and journalist, who blogs HERE - where this article was sourced.
3 comments:
Technology is leading us into the gulags.
Just reflecting on my forebears when they arrived in NZ, no running water, cooked on a fire, an outside long drop loo, electricity was decades away, barely a postal service, few roads, no real doctors or medical care - we have come an very long way in very short time - all for the better.
>"GDP per head, life is improving for rich and poor."
Not necessarily. Per capita GDP is an average and may conceal huge inequities in a society. To measure that, you need an indication of the spread of your data. The Gini Coefficient is widely used in development economics for that purpose.
You can have two countries with the same GDPpc but one may have a poverty problem while the other may not because income is more evenly distributed in the second one.
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