In the Agrarian Age, wealth originated from nature.

In the Industrial Age, wealth originated from machines.

In the Digital Age, wealth originates from information and knowledge.

More like in the digital age wealth originates from the previous ages

robots age - wealth is delivered by robots

matrix age - wealth is digitalized

stone age - no electricity, no wealth, nada

@irene yeah and Fred Flinstone and Barney Rubble

we live in a society

No it doesn't, all devs should be filthy rich if that would be the case.

I'd drop the knowledge. But apart from that yeah pretty much.

@irene the people who use their knowledge well make fortunes.
So people should also have knowledge about how to use their knowledge.

@irene we don't have to. We write the software that stores all of the information/knowledge. Which usually means we have access to it.

Besides, there's a whole lot of difference between having a product (or knowledge/information) and selling it. A good sales can (and will) sell you air. They usually end up with the money, not the people actually making/having the product/knowledge/information.

@irene I don't fully agree, but I get what you mean.

Still doesn't matter, you don't earn money with knowledge/information/products/whatever unless you sell it. The selling part is where the money is at.

Even a mediocre or bad product can sell well due to good sales and marketing. Lots of examples of it as well. And the same applies to knowledge and information. You need people to want it, or at least think they do.

In the post apocalyptic age wealth originates from nature.

@HisAxelency you seem to think too much of yourself.

In all ages, wealth results from redirecting the fruits of other people's work into one's pocket.

@galileopy what exactly made you come to that assumption?