Your quote requires India to have a population of about 875 million, it's currently about 1.4 billion.
> A more democratized technological advancement would benefit many more people, to a much greater degree
What does "democratized" even mean here? This stuff is widely available, do you want governments getting involved?
> But they'd almost certainly be a more accessible s/w development platform
What does "more accessible" mean? The knowledge to learn is given away for free. Making the tools multilingual or blind-accessible is hard but the big players do it anyway. Open source tools have man pages, which always had terrible reputations. Both open and closed source tools have wikis and forums and blogs.
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It's 11.9% (167 million) on less than $2.15/day: https://ourworldindata.org/poverty?insight=the-rapid-progres...
Your quote requires India to have a population of about 875 million, it's currently about 1.4 billion.
> A more democratized technological advancement would benefit many more people, to a much greater degree
What does "democratized" even mean here? This stuff is widely available, do you want governments getting involved?
> But they'd almost certainly be a more accessible s/w development platform
What does "more accessible" mean? The knowledge to learn is given away for free. Making the tools multilingual or blind-accessible is hard but the big players do it anyway. Open source tools have man pages, which always had terrible reputations. Both open and closed source tools have wikis and forums and blogs.