Ben Shapiro

For this reason, it is necessary to begin a shared discernment process for identifying the spiritual and cultural roots of ongoing transformations.

And then he says that communities and intermediary organizations must be involved.

And he calls for more diffuse technological property.

Quote, today, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and data.

In a context where the wealth of nations depends increasingly on knowledge and technology, when these goods remain concentrated in the hands of a few without adequate forms of sharing and access, a new imbalance is created that contradicts the universal destination of goods.

In turn, it widens the gap between the included and the excluded, between those who can participate in the digital revolution and those who remain on the margins.

Okay, first of all, this is just rote Marxist nonsense.

It's not true.

Every time a technology is developed, the people at the top end up developing the technology and then it disseminates across a society.

Literally every product that you consider commonplace today and necessary today started off as a luxury good.

Why?

Because when you first develop and innovate a product,

The per unit costs are very high.

That means only rich people can afford them.

Then, as a profit margin is developed, other competitors come into the space and the price begins to drop.

This is why the original microwaves were rather expensive and the microwave today is very inexpensive.

This is why the cell phone that you hold in your hand that has more technology than that which we use to put a man on the moon, that cell phone, far more sophisticated than any computer that was around at the time of Gordon Gekko,

The really, really basic equivalent would have been Gordon Gekko on the beach in Wall Street holding a shoebox to his head, and only he would have had one.

Every necessity starts off as a luxury, basically.

That is the way that all of this works.