Today's tech boom mirrors the Gilded Age: wealth concentrates among a tiny elite while most workers stay on the factory floor. The Rockefellers had it then, now it's frontier model leaders and vibe coders at the top. Study history and you'll see the pattern repeat.
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No, I mean, it's all the superficial popcorn eating aspect of it. You know, it's, it's, I still look at it as, you know, I deserve a trillion dollars from this. No, I deserve a trillion dollars from this. So it's fun from us, from a spectator perspective to watch this happen. When I talk to other people about this, I keep reminding them, like I've been reminding people for several years, study American history, the Gilded Age. I mean, we are all focusing on the Rockefellers here. Right? Yep. And forgetting that even people who are vibe coding their way to several million dollars a year are still on the factory floor. Now, yeah, power to you if you're making a couple million bucks a year, but just the gulf of what's happening, um, with the people who lead these frontier models and the rest of us is just a sound