在其新著《告别平均 》 （ Average is Over）中，经济学家泰勒·柯文（Tyler Cowen）提出了一个有意的挑衅性观点：尽管新技术会造成集团不平等，但满足于电脑游戏和互联网娱乐、能够获得可接受的最低限度基本生活条件的相对输家将成为顺从的良民，根本不会闹革命。
In his recent book Average is Over, the economist Tyler Cowen makes the deliberately provocative argument that while new technology will produce extreme inequality, the relative losers, satiated by computer games and Internet entertainment, and provided with the basics of a minimally acceptable life, will be too docile to revolt.