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Will there be more rich or poor people in the future?

未來會(huì)有更多富人還是更多窮人？

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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.

大約5000年前人們發(fā)現(xiàn)銅和錫一起熔煉可以產(chǎn)生青銅。當(dāng)時(shí)青銅比所有其他材料都更加堅(jiān)硬和耐用。這很快變成了一種優(yōu)越于石器武器的技術(shù)優(yōu)勢。
于是開啟了青銅時(shí)代。在接下來的2000年時(shí)間里，擁有青銅武器的帝國掌控了世界，直到下一次技術(shù)革命的發(fā)生。
然后開啟了鐵器時(shí)代。鐵比青銅更硬更強(qiáng)，而且是一種可彎曲的金屬。這一發(fā)現(xiàn)再次改變了人類的命運(yùn)。于是，擁有鐵器的文明就主宰了地球，而擁有鐵器制造秘密就意味著巨大的競爭優(yōu)勢。
在人類歷史上，知識(shí)第一次成為了主宰全球的關(guān)鍵因素。

現(xiàn)在我來回答你的問題，未來會(huì)有更多富人還是更多窮人？
可悲的是，未來會(huì)有更多窮人。
為什么？
因?yàn)椴粩嘣黾拥募夹g(shù)分裂。因特網(wǎng)改變了一切。如今我們擁有了一個(gè)新的經(jīng)濟(jì)。這就是信息時(shí)代——這種經(jīng)濟(jì)是基于數(shù)據(jù)和知識(shí)。一切都發(fā)生了變化，但是人和教育系統(tǒng)并沒有發(fā)生變化。

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’.

“錢能生錢”這句話已經(jīng)不適用了。金錢的地位已經(jīng)被知識(shí)取代，而知識(shí)的地位最終會(huì)被“如何使用杠桿的知識(shí)”所取代。

Hector Quintanilla
Yes… knowledge of using LEVERAGE.

是的，使用杠桿的知識(shí)。

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.

如果目前的趨勢繼續(xù)持續(xù)下去，那么富人會(huì)更多。
問題是你如何衡量貧窮和富有。
因?yàn)槟憧偟糜袀€(gè)東西來作比較，不管是窮人還是富人總是存在的，所以這個(gè)問題就變成了你如何追蹤貧窮和富有的趨勢。
過去幾百年來， 全世界范圍的絕對(duì)貧困已經(jīng)下降了一半。這是好事。

富人的財(cái)富比起窮人已經(jīng)達(dá)到了令人難以想象的程度。而這其實(shí)也是一件好事，盡管人們一般不這么認(rèn)為。
如果你比較貧窮和富有之間的差別，你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)富人的財(cái)富增長速度比窮人的財(cái)富增長速度快多了。問題是人們忽視了其實(shí)窮人也在變富，只不過變富的速度沒有富人那么快。
所以正如我說過的，如果目前這個(gè)趨勢繼續(xù)下去，未來窮人會(huì)比現(xiàn)在更加富有，所以窮人會(huì)變少。