inequality

A TechCrunch article examines a viral social media post by Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das, highlighting the extreme wealth divide in the AI boom where roughly 10,000 people have achieved retirement wealth while many others face layoffs and career uncertainty.

OpenAI leaders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman publicly reject cash UBI, proposing instead company-issued compute credits as the path to "universal high income," while acknowledging that true mastery of AI agents will still create trillionaires.