0xTodd ( thinking )|Dec 20, 2025 10:47
Totally, the last time I saw something similar was when people said Buffett loves Coke and Trump loves burgers—stuff you can consume just like them.
And AI is even narrowing this gap further.
In the past, people couldn’t create a huge gap in consumer goods, but they could in knowledge. After all, rich people could hire think tanks, translators, assistants...
But after 2023, as long as an average person has $20 a month to spare, they can get an AI subscription (or even use free tools like Doubao and DeepSeek).
If you ask AI about everything, even top-tier individuals won’t have much of a knowledge advantage over regular people.
Of course, ordinary people still can’t compare to the elites, no doubt about that. But in the past, it might have been a 20 vs. 85-point difference. Now, with AI, it’s more like 80 vs. 90—the gap has significantly narrowed.
I downloaded Doubao for one of my relatives, a 60-year-old lady. She doesn’t speak a word of English, but when traveling abroad, she can suddenly shop in pure English with ease, all thanks to AI.
When Sun Ce was dying, he told Sun Quan, “For internal affairs, consult Zhang Zhao; for external affairs, consult Zhou Yu.” That was the privilege of a young ruler who controlled the entire Wu territory.
Now, for just $20, ordinary people can have the same privilege—consult Gemini for external affairs, Doubao for internal affairs. It’s like everyone has their own mini Zhou Yu and Zhang Zhao.
Sure, AI still has its hallucinations. I’m just saying the gap has been significantly reduced.
As Benson said, money is becoming less and less useful, with diminishing marginal costs.
But that’s a good thing. Narrowing the gap is a good thing. I hope the equality brought by technology can make humanity as a whole happier, even if just a little bit.
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