Re:The long, slow death of global development
by eru on Thursday April 13, 2023 @05:48AM
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What does that even mean? And what statistics or other evidence do you have for that view?
To take one perhaps naive interpretation:
For example, encyclopedias used to be sold as a collection of dozens of heavy volumes. Producing them was a lively business.
Nowadays, everyone gets free access to Wikipedia, which has more content than your shelf of Encyclopedia Britannica could ever hold and gets updated all the time.
When you bought Encyclopedia Britannica that showed up in gdp statistics. Wikipedia doesn't.
To take one perhaps naive interpretation:
For example, encyclopedias used to be sold as a collection of dozens of heavy volumes. Producing them was a lively business.
Nowadays, everyone gets free access to Wikipedia, which has more content than your shelf of Encyclopedia Britannica could ever hold and gets updated all the time.
When you bought Encyclopedia Britannica that showed up in gdp statistics. Wikipedia doesn't.