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by caesil 938 days ago
Think of all the mundane technology we use every single day that was, when it was first introduced, priced for the rich and powerful.

And then imagine if we'd used that as a reason not to produce it.

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Yeah. I wish I had saved the quote, but someone said something along the lines of "the rich get new technologies when they are expensive and sucky; the rest of us get them when the kinks have been ironed out."

If you're worried about the rich getting things unfairly, focus on tax policy and closing all the thousands of loopholes. That's a lifetime's work.

And there is a lot of this sentiment around, specially with young people