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* Integrate this with social and spiritual development programs based on the Gandhian principles of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement
* Integrate this with social and spiritual development programs based on the Gandhian principles of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement
Thus we can help schoolchildren work their way through secondary (and perhaps even earlier) education, making it possible for many more of them to attend school, qualify for [[jobs]] when they graduate, or create viable jobs for others. We can increase economic growth, redirect it to sustainable ends, and provide tax revenues for expanding this and other anti-poverty programs and for sustainable development in general. Unlike foreign aid and NGO programs, OLPC will become self-funding, and so will the businesses of the children.
Thus we can help schoolchildren work their way through secondary (and perhaps even earlier) education, making it possible for many more of them to attend school, qualify for jobs when they graduate, or create viable jobs for others. We can increase economic growth, redirect it to sustainable ends, and provide tax revenues for expanding this and other anti-poverty programs and for sustainable development in general. Unlike foreign aid and NGO programs, OLPC will become self-funding, and so will the businesses of the children.
The current globalization movement is based on several economic fallacies, chief among them that giving corporations free access to all countries, but restricting people, somehow constitutes a Free Market. The OLPC XO computer in the hands of millions, and eventually a billion or so children, creates a completely different economic situation.
The current globalization movement is based on several economic fallacies, chief among them that giving corporations free access to all countries, but restricting people, somehow constitutes a Free Market. The OLPC XO computer in the hands of millions, and eventually a billion or so children, creates a completely different economic situation.
[[Category:Earth Treasury]]
[[Category:Earth Treasury]]