AI is a competitive market, so surplus accrues to users, not vendors: Afinetheorem
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-09-07
Responding to @GarrisonLovely's question of why, Afinetheorem argues that because AI is produced in a competitive market, both theory and empirical evidence so far show that the rents accrue mostly to users rather than to AI vendors. A concise opinion on how the economic surplus from AI is distributed.
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