> It is not right to treat a person who is e.g. elderly, or for some other reason has "fallen" behind the digital divide, as an inferior person with fewer rights and privileges.
While it may not be moral, our entire world and society are set up to treat folks with more resources as superior people with more rights and privileges. Poorer folks fall behind the digital curve just as readily as they fall behind the professional, educational, etc. ones. Who you are born as and where that takes place is still one of the driving factors of your rights and privileges. It's certainly noble to fight that (just to be clear that I'm not arguing for digital IDs as somehow valid because the rest of the system is already unjust).
> While it may not be moral, our entire world and society are set up to treat folks with more resources as superior people with more rights and privileges.
I don't know about that. Ability to buy more != superiority and rights and privileges.
I know a bunch of people who disdain the ultra rich and see them as the opposite of superior if anything. And rights are the same for everyone...
While morality is a different discussion for sure, I was only referring to how society as an organism views people. The wealthy undeniably have more rights and privilege than the poor.
An example from me wouldn’t disprove your claim that there are places with equal rights across the board. E.g. in the US it’s clear that the wealthy have rights granted via political donations. That doesn’t prove or disprove your claim. I hesitate to even mention such examples for fear of a response being more focused in it than the claim you made.
I am ok if you say "people with more money live better lives" but if you say "people with more money have more rights" is a bomb statement because "rights" means something specific and legally important.
While it may not be moral, our entire world and society are set up to treat folks with more resources as superior people with more rights and privileges. Poorer folks fall behind the digital curve just as readily as they fall behind the professional, educational, etc. ones. Who you are born as and where that takes place is still one of the driving factors of your rights and privileges. It's certainly noble to fight that (just to be clear that I'm not arguing for digital IDs as somehow valid because the rest of the system is already unjust).