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November 12, 2006
High school summer jobs
Paul Graham has an interesting essay about creating wealth. In it he mentioned something I told the students at Delphi High School but said it much better than I did.
Will technology increase the gap between rich and poor? It will certainly increase the gap between the productive and the unproductive. That's the whole point of technology. With a tractor an energetic farmer could plow six times as much land in a day as he could with a team of horses. But only if he mastered a new kind of farming.I've seen the lever of technology grow visibly in my own time. In high school I made money by mowing lawns and scooping ice cream at Baskin-Robbins. This was the only kind of work available at the time. Now high school kids could write software or design web sites. But only some of them will; the rest will still be scooping ice cream.
http://www.paulgraham.com/gap.html
Posted by mikel at November 12, 2006 12:03 PM
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