> less intelligent people have been left behind

May I also add that this isn't just (or at all) about intelligence.

I'm lucky enough to be at a company where I have a large budget in terms of what I can spend in tokens. This gives me an enormous advantage over someone who is just as intelligent as me and who has the same experience as me minus the interaction I have with LLMs.

In this case the crucial difference is not intelligence, it's that I found myself in the right place to be able to go up, whereas a lot of people which are otherwise like me didn't get that opportunity through no fault of their own.

People tend to attribute their successes to their own merit and their failures to happenstance, but if we're honest with ourselves the real world has a lot of randomness in it.

You're totally right, I probably simplified the problem too much. At the same people don't just get randomly assigned to companies, and I know I would quickly switch if I would be working at a company which doesn't have this policy.