Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve.
Advice from others is always filtered through self interest.
Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.
Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.
Rich grandparents get more attention than poor grandparents.
The economy that leads the world will be the one with the most millionaires and billionaires.