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if wealthier people come to have access to new technologies, and if access to important goods get mediated through access to those technologies, then the poor who lack such access will find it harder and more expensive to supply their needs. You can run this one from everything from cars and out-of-town shopping centres to the internet.

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This seems like a very poor argument considering technology usually gets cheaper and more accessible as time goes by. Take cars. When first invented, they were only for the rich man. Then Henry Ford came along and suddenly cars could be had by more and more people. Nowadays, even quite poor people can own a car. Computers are the same way. Started off quite expensive, but now are getting cheaper and cheaper. The incentive to make expensive goods that the rich buy more accessible is massive considering there are far more non-rich people.