Very nice to hear:
"good thing for the world overall", how cute. However, quality of life basically translates into resources/population ratio
within a country and that's a zero-sum game. The planet at the current level of technology couldn't even provide for all
existing Chinese to suddenly start living like people in US/EU do, yet their populations, especially if measured in number of households, much more relevant than just counting heads, keeps growing.
And no amount of Internet innovation will solve the problem of diminishing clean water, oil, ocean fish, disappearing forests, soil erosion and increasingly bad air quality. Right now 1st world countries are basically "exporting" these problems to developing nations, eventually these issues will be averaged out: eventually China won't be so poor to accept our non-recyclable electronic garbage anymore, what then?
And no amount of Internet innovation will solve the problem of diminishing clean water, oil, ocean fish, disappearing forests, soil erosion and increasingly bad air quality. Right now 1st world countries are basically "exporting" these problems to developing nations, eventually these issues will be averaged out: eventually China won't be so poor to accept our non-recyclable electronic garbage anymore, what then?