2. Does innovation tend to reduce social inequality or deepen it? Provide examples.
I, personally, believe that innovation is doing a very good job of deepening our social inequality issue. Sure many, if not all, people are able to find and connect to a suitable internet source but what about the more luxurious things that are being created? Extremely expensive “robots” are popping up more and more in our lives. From cars that drive themselves to speakers that talk back to you to refrigerators that can send you a photo of what it contains when you are miles away. These things are said to help improve our society as a whole but what about those who cannot afford them? Not everyone can afford a car that can drive itself and eventually, if they were to become more prominent, the divide between those who could afford them and those who could not afford them would be distinct. Those who could buy the fancy, expensive, most up-to-date technological toys and those who could not, would potentially create problems within society.
Things like these would almost be like dividing society into two new species but which species is the better of the two?
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