Throughout this semester I have learned many new ideas on inequality and how it relates to technology and how it affects society. Until now I hadn’t realized how much technology creates inequality in almost any aspect of it, including computers, bridges, cars, bicycles, and many other invention and developments. Technology also helps the rich much more than it helps the poor since only the wealthy can afford such luxuries while some people in the world still live without running water and electricity.
This class helped me realize how much I take certain luxuries for granted and I now appreciate them a lot more than I did before. I think a lot of privileged people disregard how easy their lives are since they experience so much technology everyday they overlook how some people in the world live hard poverty stricken lives without it. I realize how technological advance mainly only help people who can afford to pay for them and just help the line between the rich and the poor to become thicker and keeping the poor down.
