AI's New Caste System: Your Rank Is Decided by Compute, Not Birth
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-11-09
A viral quip: in the AI era, social stratification no longer depends on your background but on how much compute you control. Behind the joke lies a real point about compute inequality—gaps between individuals and giants, small countries and big ones, are being redefined by GPU holdings.
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