The actual value goes to the people who are boosting their productivity with AI.

If you are paying $200/mo and getting $10,000 of value from it, then you are capturing 98% of the value.

People seem to inherently understand this, while consciously being unaware of it.

Mid-terms are almost here and left wing anti-DC propaganda bots are scrambling.

I'm sure you too noticed it too when Yandex datacenters went down so did all the anti-datacenter posts too.

It worked that way in Russia too. Some people managed to quickly consolidate those shares by exploiting the economic hardship of the people caused by the fall of the USSR by hoovering up those shares for Kopecks on the Rubel, and that's where the current day oligarchy was formed.

The transition from communism to capitalism was hardly as rosy as people in the West like to think.

Of course, how this unfolded varied. For example, unlike the chaotic Russian privatization that created a class of oligarchs, the transition in places like Poland favored a network of well-placed insiders, a highly structured network of intelligence officers (military, civilian), state managers, and flexible communist party elites, who - by controlling information, intelligence networks, and the liquidation apparatus - effectively laundered their authoritarian political privileges into financial dominance.