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Gotcha. Yeah I mean there's no denying that technology has transformed the world dramatically. Not only in the last 20 years but also in the last 200. With just having access to a phone and/or computer + the internet, if someone is motivated enough, they can transform their lives for the better no matter what position they were born into. No matter where they might be located. They can either teach themselves to code, they can create content, or a myriad of other things. That's something that never existed before in human history. It's great. Historically you were relegated to the opportunities you were born into/around and the area you found yourself in.He's not wrong about technology being a gamechanger. I grew up when you had to talk on phones attached to a wall in your kitchen, and before video games were an industry where a kid sitting on his ass all day could become a millionaire. There was a VICE special about how the children of coal miners are actively transforming dead coal towns by making money with their phones, kids in their late teens and early 20's floating entire households with their incomes. That's the part I liked, technology has been transformative.
However, I did mention that the corporations have almost immediately swooped in to pilfer these profits, to gatekeep this economic access behind paywalls. Thankfully the FTC is actually fighting them over it.
I just find it hilariously ironic to be like "You're a Bill O'Reilly revisionist, as if 1955 was the peak of civilization" then turning around and being like "everything is better now despite decades of declining economic indicators, because iPhones exist". Something Bill O'Reilly would say.
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