【龙腾网】未来会有更多富人还是更多穷人？
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Will there be more rich or poor people in the future?
未来会有更多富人还是更多穷人？
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Hector Quintanilla, Founder at DigitalAgeEducation.com
About five thousand years ago, people noticed that smelting copper with tin produced bronze.
Bronze was harder and more durable than all other metals of the time. This quickly became a significant technological advantage over stone weapons.
This started the Bronze Age.
For 2,000 years, Empires that had access to bronze weapons ruled the world … until the next technological revolution happened.
This started the Iron Age.
Iron is harder, stronger than bronze, plus it’s a bendable metal.
This discovery changed humanity ... again.
Soon, civilizations that possessed iron dominated the earth, and the manufacturing secrets to making iron represented a significant competitive advantage.
For the first time in history, knowledge became a critical factor in achieving global domination.
Now, to answer your question, will there be more rich or more poor in the future?
Sadly, there will be more poor people.
Why?
Because of the growing technological divide.
The internet has changed everything.
Today we have a new economy. It’s the information age — an economy based on data and knowledge. Everything has changed, well, except people and our educational system.
大约5000年前人们发现铜和锡一起熔炼可以产生青铜。当时青铜比所有其他材料都更加坚硬和耐用。这很快变成了一种优越于石器武器的技术优势。
于是开启了青铜时代。在接下来的2000年时间里，拥有青铜武器的帝国掌控了世界，直到下一次技术革命的发生。
然后开启了铁器时代。铁比青铜更硬更强，而且是一种可弯曲的金属。这一发现再次改变了人类的命运。于是，拥有铁器的文明就主宰了地球，而拥有铁器制造秘密就意味着巨大的竞争优势。
在人类历史上，知识第一次成为了主宰全球的关键因素。
现在我来回答你的问题，未来会有更多富人还是更多穷人？
可悲的是，未来会有更多穷人。
为什么？
因为不断增加的技术分裂。因特网改变了一切。如今我们拥有了一个新的经济。这就是信息时代——这种经济是基于数据和知识。一切都发生了变化，但是人和教育系统并没有发生变化。
Ashok Banga
What has changed with the time is old saying that “money begets more money…”.
Place of ‘money’ has now been taken over by the 'knowledge' and finally the 'knowledge of leveraging’.
“钱能生钱”这句话已经不适用了。金钱的地位已经被知识取代，而知识的地位最终会被“如何使用杠杆的知识”所取代。
Hector Quintanilla
Yes… knowledge of using LEVERAGE.
是的，使用杠杆的知识。
Chip Kerr, Self Employed (2000-present)
“…Will there be more rich or poor people in the future?”
If the current trend continues then there will be more rich people.
The caveat is how are you measuring ‘rich’ and ‘poor.’
Because you have to have something to measure against there is always going to be a ‘rich’ and a ‘poor’ so the question becomes how are you tracking the trend of rich and poor?
Absolute poverty has been reduced world-wide by 50% in the last hundred years. That’s a good thing.
The measured wealth of ‘the rich’ has reached levels that simply boggle the mind and the top are so far above the bottom that there isn’t even really a reasonable way to display the data in graph form. That is, despite what many will try and tell you, also a good thing.
If you compare the difference between rich and poor, that measure is getting ‘badder’ because the rich are getting richer at a rate that is many, many times faster than the poor are getting richer. The point that gets missed is the poor are getting richer too, just no where near as fast as the rich are doing it.
So like I said… if the current trends continue then the the poor in the future will be less poor than now so the answer to your question is less poor people in the future.
如果目前的趋势继续持续下去，那么富人会更多。
问题是你如何衡量贫穷和富有。
因为你总得有个东西来作比较，不管是穷人还是富人总是存在的，所以这个问题就变成了你如何追踪贫穷和富有的趋势。
过去几百年来， 全世界范围的绝对贫困已经下降了一半。这是好事。
富人的财富比起穷人已经达到了令人难以想象的程度。而这其实也是一件好事，尽管人们一般不这么认为。
如果你比较贫穷和富有之间的差别，你会发现富人的财富增长速度比穷人的财富增长速度快多了。问题是人们忽视了其实穷人也在变富，只不过变富的速度没有富人那么快。
所以正如我说过的，如果目前这个趋势继续下去，未来穷人会比现在更加富有，所以穷人会变少。
