New York Times publishes an interesting text with the main thesis: consumption of digital services — this is a sign of poverty. We say digital economy, but we mean an economy of services for the poor.
You are poor if your doctor consults you over the Internet and not during a personal meeting.
Poor if your children study online and not from offline teachers.
Poor if you buy goods online and not in a nice store in the city center.
Recent events clearly do not contribute to increasing solvency
population. This means that digital technologies and automation will be in greater demand among precisely these masses of the population.
The author of the article, Nellie Bowlers, goes further and states that «luxurization» human relations.
If you still receive services from real people or have the opportunity to communicate with them, then most likely you are a representative of the new elite, whose prestigious consumption consists of abandoning digital services in favor of offline ones.
If a computer program tells you that you are dying, it means you are dying as a pauper in the digital economy.
For the rich, interacting with people—living without a phone during the day, quitting social media, and not answering email—has become a status symbol.
This has led to a curious new reality: human contact becomes a luxury product.
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