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How Technology Can Create Political Changeby Kevin CarsonSep. 04, 2015 |
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 Jeffrey Tucker opens with the story of Fereshteh Forough, who set up a chain of clinics in Afghanistan to empower women by teaching them coding, design, and other computer skills that they could market directly on the web. The problem they met with was an inability to get paid, either because there was no nearby institution where they could open a checking account or they required a man’s permission to open one. Bitcoin allows all the women in her clinic to open a bank account without permission from anyone. If they owned a smartphone, they only needed a free wallet app. Then they could receive and spend money without permission from any authority... Read More 
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