It’s easy to blame politicians and greedy corporations for the growing gap between the rich and poor, but some say it’s actually sleep technology that will spark the class war of the future.
Some experts believe that sleep reduction gadgets will intensify the planet’s income inequality problem, because only wealthy people will be able to afford them and can spend those extra waking hours working, making the rich even richer.
In the next 20 years, scientists will unlock the secret to needing only two hours of sleep a night, using a “combination of devices and chemicalsâ€. Like computers, the early models of this technology will be available only to the rich, likely to cost tens of thousands of dollars.
“In 50 years we might hear people say, ‘Oh that poor person, he has to be unconscious for 8 hours a day.’â€
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