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Originally Posted by leebase
So now the big market is third world sunny climates with poor access to electricity? That’s a lucrative market just waiting for hundreds of millions of dollars in investment.
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Ever since all Countries have education. Let us see the Edu share of GDP list: Marshall Islands, Lesotho, Cuba, Kiribati, Grenada, Timor-Leste, Palau, Denmark, Moldova, Djbouti, Namibia, Botswana, Iceland, Sweden, Comoros, Bolivia, Tuvalu, Barbados, Zimbabwe, Bhutan...
So yes, as long as «impopular measures» fail to reach consensus to «strafe them with machineguns», people get educated.
Of course, this market adds to the share of 400M of the northern Americas and 750M of Europe, of the 40M of Oceania and of the 70M of Arabia, and of all the other 6500M of the 7700M, who just access information beyond academic duties.
In specific, thinking of the market of China (Lenovoland), of the famously numerous 1400M people only less than 200M are in education age primary range, owing to blessed overpopulation containment measures: over half of the total population of the USA.
Incidentally, there is no Third World anymore. Check the Roslings'.
EDIT: I did not even consider the «with poor access to electricity» part: that is, I guess, all countries - unless, I cannot be sure, they installed booths with plugs in the streets of Singapore and Hong Kong, but I am pretty sure that I did not see plugs in the gardens of Monaco. Only yesterday I was cursing Google's priorities because I could not disable battery charge and that was draining my laptop under tethering. I am in a high-GDP country, and we do not have electric plugs in the pastures. One day, maybe, with the right solar-power technology... It is a «sunny climate» here.
Now, when efficiency does not get the recognition it should immediately get, I remember among the rest Berkeley Breathed's "Martha, the fuel is so cheap, as of today, ditch the milk and feed the cat with it".