> Infinite investor dollars

This has another side effect in that it breaks the power that consumers have in the market to have a say in how resources get allocated, by voting with their wallet.

The entire AI buildout is non-consensual. Individuals have zero say. We could all refuse to buy AI subscriptions and it would not matter because businesses will still buy, and, investors have decided that we are moving forward with this no matter what, seemingly whether anyone is actually buying or not.

AI isn't necessarily unique here, but it is one of the biggest new examples of wealth inequality and how society at large are no longer the ones who get to decide how resources are allocated under a capitalist system, especially when the investor dollars behind it amounts to the GDP of a small nation.

And Businesses will buy, because the AI promise is a promise to automate workers away.