Ultimately, the next revolution will likely stem from daily interactions on computer monitors with foreigners whom we can see are intelligent, decent people – people who happen, through no choice of their own, to be living in poverty. This should lead to better trade agreements, which presuppose the eventual development of orders of magnitude more social insurance to protect people within a country during the transition to a more just global economy.


bioemerl:

Language barriers prevent this, as does the fact that people really don't give a shit about seeing others in poverty, we'll just laugh and say they deserve it because of their location, move on with our lives, and be done with it. There will be congregations of people on the internet where the rich browse one site while the poor are relegated to another.

People have been making this argument for years and years. It's never going to be effective, not in my opinion.


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