The calculations of economic growth that reveal growing inequality already take into account spending on telecommunications, information processing, and audiovisual entertainment. Unless the benefits from information-age goods and services greatly outstrip what we spend on them, the wellbeing they provide will have already been accounted for.
根据传统经济学，乍一看答案是否定的。揭示不平等性增加的经济增长计算已经考虑了通信、信息处理和视听娱乐方面的支出。除非信息时代商品和服务所带来的好处大大超过了我们为此付出的钱，否则它们所提供的福利已经考虑在内。