AGI Era Will Shift Competition to Status Assets
sdand · x · 2026-07-13
The author argues that even if AGI brings material abundance, imitative competition won't disappear; it will simply shift towards positional goods.
Using sports teams as a prime example, they are described as the "ultimate positional asset," predicting that billionaires will increasingly compete for these scarce commodities in the coming years. Half-jokingly, the author adds that if anyone is buying a sports team, they'd love to join as a minor anonymous investor, naming a few teams of interest.
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