Judgment is the scarce capital: AI era favors co-ownership over one-person unicorns
curious_vii · x · 2026-09-21
The author argues that as AI turns labor into ownership, judgment is becoming the scarce form of capital. Tacit knowledge and relational attention don't scale like GPUs.
Rather than a wave of one-man billion-dollar firms, he predicts more people will co-own the upside — framing it as an ongoing experiment in how value and equity are distributed in the AI era.
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