Experts sell a lifetime of skill once as AI squeezes knowledge workers, no equity
curious_vii · x · 2026-10-29
bephrem argues companies like Mercor pay experts once to hand over skills that took a lifetime to build, for models to replicate forever with no ownership. curiousvii extends the critique: securities regulation locks American workers out of private capital, so when they compress expertise into software via AI they capture no equity-shaped upside, while arbitrageurs closer to capital take a vig. The limiting factor, he argues, is regulatory, not technological.
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