The New Poverty: Those Who Don’t Understand Technology Are Being Left Behind
Digital exclusion is the new invisible form of poverty. If you don’t understand technology, you're being devoured by the system. Learn how to escape digital illiteracy, ask the right questions, recover lost time, and discover a new world of income and creativity through the internet.
New Poverty Isn’t Just About Money. It’s About Technology.
In the past, poverty meant no food on the table or no roof over your head.
Today, there’s a new, silent form of poverty: digital illiteracy.
You might have a smartphone — maybe even an old laptop. But you don’t know how to use it properly. You don’t know what to look for. And worse: you don’t know that you don’t know.
This is the new poverty.
Those who don’t understand technology are being silently left behind.
🧱 Digital Illiteracy: The New Invisible Wall
According to UNESCO, over 70% of the global population has internet access. But only a small percentage knows how to use it productively, creatively, or professionally.
Having access doesn’t mean knowing how to navigate.
👉 Opening Instagram isn’t using the internet.
👉 Watching YouTube isn’t real learning.
👉 Using WhatsApp doesn’t mean you know how to communicate digitally.
Most people are passive users, content consumers — but not creators or producers.
🧨 The Real Impact of Digital Exclusion
You're missing out on opportunities — and you don’t even know it.
Job market: 90% of positions require basic digital skills.
Education: the most valuable free courses are online (and you’ve never heard of them).
Entrepreneurship: it's possible to earn money online — if you know where to start.
Self-expression: without tools, your voice dies in the silence of digital ignorance.
Control: if you don’t understand algorithms, you’re just a product in their hands.
🔎 How to Know You’re Being Left Behind
You feel fear or laziness about learning new tools.
You always ask others to help with anything digital.
You don’t know how to edit a basic video.
You’ve never signed up for a site that’s not a social network.
You believe “that’s not for me.”
These are symptoms of the new digital poverty.
But there’s a way out.
🔑 The First Step: Learning to Ask the Right Questions
You don’t need to know everything.
But you do need to know how to ask, where to search, what to explore.
💡 Examples:
Instead of “How can I make money?”, ask:
“What platforms allow beginners to earn online using AI?”Instead of “I don’t get this”, try:
“What’s the first free course I can take to learn this from scratch?”
The key is applied curiosity. And tools that help turn doubt into independence.
🧗♂️ How to Catch Up: 5 Practical Steps
Choose a topic you love. Could be gaming, fashion, AI, politics.
Use ChatGPT as your digital mentor. Ask it anything. Seriously.
Set a daily 30-minute learning habit. No excuses.
Create content about what you learn. Teaching is the fastest way to grow.
Join digital communities. Forums, channels, groups — people like you.
Lost time is not an excuse.
The future won’t wait.
🎥 Mr. Influenciado: From Zero to Digital Survival
Just like you, I knew nothing.
Not even how to write a proper email.
Now I create content, earn online, study with AI, and document everything.
If I can do it, anyone can.
But only if you stop waiting and start moving.
The digital world isn’t just a world.
It’s the world.
🧠 Final Thoughts: The Future Belongs to Those Who Know How to Learn
You don’t have to be a programmer.
You just need to not be eaten alive.
The new poverty is invisible.
But the signs are everywhere:
People stuck in social media, not realizing they could build with it.
People afraid to click buttons, when the real fear should be doing nothing.
People who think the internet is just for fun, when it’s actually for education, work, and freedom.
Wake up. Learn. Teach. Earn. Share. Grow.
Welcome to the start of your digital liberation.
