Technology is everywhere and always an unalloyed good. New technologies ultimately create better jobs and more broadly based prosperity. So goes the conventional economic wisdom. But what if it wasn’t true? What if technology had been used — in lieu of strong political and institutional restraints — to put more money in the hands of elites throughout history?
科技無處不在，而且它永遠純粹只有好處。新技術最終會創造更好的就業機會和更廣泛的繁榮。傳統的經濟理論是這樣講的。但如果并非如此呢？如果自古以來將更多的錢交到精英們手中的是科技，而不是強大的政治和制度控制手段呢？
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