ECONOMY
Issue #482
4 Jan 2026
Wealth inequality and income redistribution have long been concepts marginalised to the far left, but as AI continues to eat into the value of human labour, the penny is beginning to drop even amongst most confidently self identified free market capitalists that we may be looking at future of elite wealth polarity, where the owners of the only means of tenable production have decoupled entirely from the masses whose labour they no longer want or need. The answer must include Open Source AI, at least as a divergence of revenue / attention from Close Source AI controlled by the oligarchs, but Dwarkesh doesn’t go there, for reasons unknown.