Allgoodnamesaretaken
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Think about it. Back in the days, if a aspiring merchant wanted to become rich, he had to find someone richer to teach him, learn from books (if he had enough money to even buy a book, he were from wealthy family already, so finding someone richer would be far easier) or just try and most likely lose money because he couldn't learn basic information from anywhere, like where, from who, how, for how much, what to avoid, what route you should take etc. There were also guild schools for traders, but like with books, you would need to have a pretty wealthy family for it.
Even in Industrial era, basic stuff like "buy low, sell high" were family secrets and a common man had a very hard time to change his social status. It was a bit easier to learn, because books were cheaper and not that many people were illiterate, though it was still hard as hell.
But today? We have internet! Really, something like 40% of my skills came from internet. So much knowlege for FREE and even someone dirt poor could change his life or at least learn astonishing amount of things from it. You literally just need an internet connection and you could even use free wifi from library to learn. There are people that argue that internet should be free, because it should be one of human rights and I can see it happening, considering that people even in poorest regions of the world have phones that could connect to the internet.
Where am I going with all this? I dunno, I just love the internet and wanted to ramble about it :D
Even in Industrial era, basic stuff like "buy low, sell high" were family secrets and a common man had a very hard time to change his social status. It was a bit easier to learn, because books were cheaper and not that many people were illiterate, though it was still hard as hell.
But today? We have internet! Really, something like 40% of my skills came from internet. So much knowlege for FREE and even someone dirt poor could change his life or at least learn astonishing amount of things from it. You literally just need an internet connection and you could even use free wifi from library to learn. There are people that argue that internet should be free, because it should be one of human rights and I can see it happening, considering that people even in poorest regions of the world have phones that could connect to the internet.
Where am I going with all this? I dunno, I just love the internet and wanted to ramble about it :D