Posted by Will on
URL: https://mikraite.arkian.net/Stephen-Hawking-dangerous-times-tp950p969.html

His key point is that inequality is expanding.

The world used to be highly unequal. Then people revolted and made it more equal.

Technology used to be an equalization force, but now is destroying equality, faster and faster, and nobody can stop it.

Another key point is that despite the financial inequality, people do have more information equality than ever. So, the poor are seeing what the rich have, and they ask why are we so unequal?

Right now, in America, for example, the poor still has hope, e.g. Trump. But once they see that the inequality will only expand faster from now on, what will they do?

The article doesn't have a solution. But the realization of the problem is non-trivial.