technology improved and became less expensive as the average person was increasingly exploited  > iphone is $3000  > only rich buy iphone  > iphone cost $1000 > everyone buy iphone  > everyone feel rich  > release new one every two years  > everyone buy every two years  > but they lose money on all those materials!  > price of gold goes up  > taxes on exports go down  > rich still profit on iphone  > country gets no taxes on materials  > gas ore and minerals are sole export  > still fewer taxes  > begin downward spiral to squalor  > rich keep profiting off iphone so normal guy feel rich to have iphone  just because computers used to be expensive and not as advanced, and now they're more advanced and more attainable,  doesn't mean the average person has access to cutting edge technology at the same rate they used to  they just figured out they could keep advancing but sell shitty versions of everything to joe nobody to keep them feeling like they benefit from industry  sure i can buy a toaster for 10 bucks but the people making the toaster don't care about the toaster  it's canon fodder, they're not losing anything just because i have access to it easily doesn't mean reality has magically become more equitable
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