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We Make The Future Sustainable When We Invest In The Poor, Not When We Insist On Their Suffering.

There Is This Broad, Broad Recognition Of How Technology Is Enabling New Things. Companies That Never Paid Attention To Computers In Any Form Now See Digital Technology As Creating Threats And Opportunities For Them.

The Returns From Investing In Poor People Are Just As Great As The Returns From Investing In The Business World... And Have Even More Meaning

One Thing People Underestimate Is How Markets Don't Allow Anyone To Do Anything Except Make Better And Better Products. There's Not Much Leeway. The World Is A Lot More Competitive Than Most People Think, Particularly In A High-technology Area. If A Company Takes Its Eye Off Improving Its Products, If It Tries To Do Anything That Would Be Viewed As An Exercise Of Power, It'll Be Displaced Very Rapidly.

Now, If You're Rich, You Can Spend A Lot Of Money, Netherlands-style, And Reduce That. But Bangladesh Or Parts Of India, Like Calcutta, They Just Simply Won't Be Able To Afford That Kind Of Protection.