Topic: I'd argue it's about interest not poverty (Read 59 times)

When I see people attribute the lack of nodes or miners in a particular country, continent or place to poverty, illiteracy etc, I look around me and smh.
I live in a small town with thousands of people, both poor and rich... Very close to me I could count lots of people who can afford to run nodes or own miners if convinced or if they find them really useful.
People often confused poverty with money in bank accounts, appearance, poor living condition(there are lots of rich people who live poorly ) etc... this isn't really the real situation of things. Lots of people don't use bank accounts but they are pretty comfortable and are living humble life. The humble life used to be cultural in many places. You could find people living in poor houses but have lots assets: animals, lands, farms etc that can fetch them lots of money. . Very comfortable people I know could tell you "it's not easy but we are managing" just to feel humble. Or the "uneducated/traditional" rich business men will call poor countrymen: brother/uncle, sister/aunty, sir/daddy or ma/mum, just to be humble or probably to be admired.

The problem with attributing lots of issues to poverty is that you will probably never find a solution. You could come to a deeply cultural "poor" country/continent and still find them the way they were 50years ago except for the unavoidable improvements in technology (which is not wealth).

It's won't be that difficult to get people run the typical full nodes if it's very beneficial to them and if they could easily use that productively or for their businesses.