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There is an old saying that goes something like this: If you want to see what people are really like, just wait until there is money involved. Money is a funny thing. It is the subject of a great many opinions regarding how unimportant it is but, at the same time, motivates people in such a way as to prove how important it is. It drives individuals and empires. The history of wealth and how it is acquired and maintained runs parallel to the history of technology. And it also runs parallel to the history of humanity and how it eeks out a living on this inhospitable earth. Money can’t buy happiness, but poverty can buy a whole lot of misery. Given how technology is most often implemented to make life better in one way or another, the side effect of technologies uncanny ability to improve our quality of life is directly connected to it’s capacity to create wealth.
We have been looking at technology throughout history and, when we find technology that has had the most impact on us, it always seems to bring with it an increase in wealth. The printing press, the Industrial Revolution and the steam engine, the telephone and radio, and electricity. But they also brought a lot of problems with them. And as nations around the word look to technology to lift them out of poverty and grow wealth, other considerations, like the environment, take a back seat. I guess there really are no free lunches.
This video explores this interesting relationship.
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