Re: The fundamental problem
People living on $2 per day are focused on getting enough food to survive. Only when they get richer will they be able to cross the digital divide. Will they get richer? Probably, but it takes time. Look back to where we in the UK were less than 180 years ago.
1842 – Children under 10 are no longer allowed to work in Mines (The Mines Act).
1843 – Dickens publishes “A Christmas Carol”.
1844 – Children aged 8 – 13 are no longer allowed to work over 6.5 hours a day (The Factory Act).
Both the Mines and the Factories act caused civil strife as families could no longer afford to feed their children who were no longer able work and earn money. 180 years is only two lifetimes. There will possibly still be people alive who have met people who were forced to stop working in a mine till they were 10.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
