I'm practise reading articles.
Could anyone help me explain some questions about the paragraph?
1- Do "future gains" mean benefits in the future?
2- The last sentence seems confused to me. Is a small number of employees is skilled ones? Do "gains" of the last sentence mean profits? What is the cause of "income gap" in the paragraph?
"Another set of future gains, especially for lesser-skilled workers, may come as computers become easier to handle for people with rudimentary skill. Not everyone can work fruitfully with computers now. There is a generation gap when it comes to manipulating electronic devices, and many relevant tasks require knowledge of programming or, more ambitiously, the entrepreneurial skill of creating a start-up. That, in a nutshell, is how our dynamic sector has concentrated its gains among a relatively small number of employees, thus leading to more income inequality."
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1. Yes. 2.
- 1.
- Yes.
- 2.
- In this case "gains" refers to the financial success of the companies translated into salaries (and other benefits) paid to employees.
- "income inequality" means that some workers earn a lot more than others.
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1. Yes.
2. In this case "gains" refers to the financial success of the companies translated into salaries (and other benefits) paid to employees. "income inequality" means that some workers earn a lot more than others. The phrase "income gap", which you mention, is not actually used, though it would mean ab
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