I'm not incredibly rich and many of those things have had a huge impact on my life. My brother surviving stage IV cancer, for example. Being able to build a business with nothing more than a domain name and a programming book, etc.
If things keep moving as fast as they are, then my guess is that the trickle down effects will...well...trickle faster.
In global terms, you are incredibly rich. If you have ever owned a domain name or a programming book you are incredibly rich.
Around half the world lives on less than $2.50 a day[1]. If you have one dollar a day that you can afford to waste on something you don't need to live, you're in something like the top ten or twenty percent of the world's richest. Sorry, I don't have a source for that last one, although the figure could likely be derived from the stats here:
Right, but we're talking about innovation, not sociological issues, and I'm not ashamed to be given the opportunity to be on the forefront of that.
The best way for me, as an entrepreneur, to help those less fortunate is to make more money so I can build greater things, and that's at the core of the innovation we're seeing here.
If things keep moving as fast as they are, then my guess is that the trickle down effects will...well...trickle faster.