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meri_dian
on Jan 3, 2018
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A.I. And Big Data Could Power a New War on Poverty...
But you're leaving out the fact that the average person is much better off now, materially, than they ever were in the past.
titzer
on Jan 3, 2018
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The average person might be a little better off than a decade ago, but the gap between rich and poor keeps getting wider, and even worse, the poor are actually getting poorer. If the rich get even richer, the average keeps going up, well done!
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