Perhaps wealth will have a greater bearing on a photographer's output than ever before. It will no longer be the best camera and the fastest lens, but the biggest RAM and the finest peripherals which will decide. The poor will get poorer. Perhaps that is the end result of democracy, an equality of opportunity that creates the opportunity of greater rifts. Art does not have a conscience.
Achievement is an end in itself that pushes it to ever extending limits.
But this heightened sense of power, this endless opportunity, will need to grow a separate consciousness that will question the validity of our actions. And there is no going back. Like those Brazilian kids on the speeding trains, we must just hang on the roof, dodging the wires as best as we can, hurtling ever forward till the train stops, and just hope we are in the right station.