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jpadkins • today at 12:21 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

you left out the part where the system (capitalism) is creating the technology that people use and makes their life better.

Giving people material goods or technology does make them wealthy. Sometimes it even hurts them https://humanprogress.org/agricultural-subsidies-in-wealthy-... You have to understand poverty and what causes it before you are able to solve for it. Your colonial / dependency mindset will not help.


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NackerHughes • today at 12:55 PM

No, labour creates the technology that people use.

The system just decides where the wealth goes.

Under capitalism, it doesn't go to the people who did the labour.

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