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by devbent 1080 days ago
> Yet the lives of ordinary people have hardly improved and are arguably worse since the 1980s

Read up on improved crop yields for subsidence farmers who got access to weather reports through smart phones.

A lot of people are not starving now because of that one change alone.

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> Read up on improved crop yields for subsidence farmers who got access to weather reports through smart phones.

I think that's a poor example. I was getting weather reports on pre-smartphone Nokias.

Farmers could have gotten weather reports on feature phones.