The mindset is the same mindset as those AAA game development studios. And their track record being what they have been should to any sensible society lead to some important reflections and a change to company policy. However, the too big to fail model has become pervasive throughout the world, not just here in the US but I would say a lot of other places too. Those who create amazing gaming platforms through their hard work, blood, sweat and tears seem to perpetually not be rewarded but instead are blamed by the leadership for their failure. Forget that direction when it comes to marketing and execution matter too. Those coders learn the lesson, it is never the boss's fault and those who are weak deserve to suffer. Previously enthusiastic coders with a passion for gaming start out motivated but end up becoming self-hating hollowed out robots inside. When a game starts losing the free to play wonderland, it starts to become a corporate greed revenant of its former self. It starts to become a buyers beware world of whales eating whales and the regulars only small fish fry in an increasingly less populated 'pond' full of only the increasingly hungry and vicious. Any economy that is built on a form of fiat currency seems to run into this same sort of trend. When the average human no longer wants to populate servers because they can no longer afford to play... will listening to enslaved machines with no ability to ask for a vacation or maternity leave really solve your long-term problems? In China they are getting so desperate some bros are looking into making human producing robots now. Well in that case, I suppose we better somehow hope the machines created appreciate your average poor, befuddled and lonely coder more than your typical oligarch? Otherwise, how doomed will our species be? Heck, I'd be worried if I've been a bad boss starting today...
You’ve nailed the contradiction of this moment: we are approaching a world of technological abundance while living inside a system designed for scarcity. The K-shaped split isn’t new, but AI is accelerating it. Capital-rich firms and the top quintile can reap productivity gains, while the majority are squeezed by job precarity, tariffs, and rising costs.
What worries me most is that we’re normalizing divergence as if it were inevitable. Abundance without distribution is just another form of scarcity. Wealth from AI is guaranteed. What’s not guaranteed is fairness. Without deliberate engagement, the extant inequality will persist, and we’ll find ourselves subjects of post-state sovereigns.
The mindset is the same mindset as those AAA game development studios. And their track record being what they have been should to any sensible society lead to some important reflections and a change to company policy. However, the too big to fail model has become pervasive throughout the world, not just here in the US but I would say a lot of other places too. Those who create amazing gaming platforms through their hard work, blood, sweat and tears seem to perpetually not be rewarded but instead are blamed by the leadership for their failure. Forget that direction when it comes to marketing and execution matter too. Those coders learn the lesson, it is never the boss's fault and those who are weak deserve to suffer. Previously enthusiastic coders with a passion for gaming start out motivated but end up becoming self-hating hollowed out robots inside. When a game starts losing the free to play wonderland, it starts to become a corporate greed revenant of its former self. It starts to become a buyers beware world of whales eating whales and the regulars only small fish fry in an increasingly less populated 'pond' full of only the increasingly hungry and vicious. Any economy that is built on a form of fiat currency seems to run into this same sort of trend. When the average human no longer wants to populate servers because they can no longer afford to play... will listening to enslaved machines with no ability to ask for a vacation or maternity leave really solve your long-term problems? In China they are getting so desperate some bros are looking into making human producing robots now. Well in that case, I suppose we better somehow hope the machines created appreciate your average poor, befuddled and lonely coder more than your typical oligarch? Otherwise, how doomed will our species be? Heck, I'd be worried if I've been a bad boss starting today...
You’ve nailed the contradiction of this moment: we are approaching a world of technological abundance while living inside a system designed for scarcity. The K-shaped split isn’t new, but AI is accelerating it. Capital-rich firms and the top quintile can reap productivity gains, while the majority are squeezed by job precarity, tariffs, and rising costs.
What worries me most is that we’re normalizing divergence as if it were inevitable. Abundance without distribution is just another form of scarcity. Wealth from AI is guaranteed. What’s not guaranteed is fairness. Without deliberate engagement, the extant inequality will persist, and we’ll find ourselves subjects of post-state sovereigns.