zooming out, the AI space is filled with insiders trading well-paid opportunities among others with very specific credentials.. in a high stakes and heavily con

zooming out, the AI space is filled with insiders trading well-paid opportunities among others with very specific credentials.. in a high stakes and heavily constricted network of networks.. contrast this to an open market.. for example I make a poster for a grocery store in my town, that poster is well-liked and I have the rights to reproduce it, or make a similar new one. In every town there could be such activity, and for larger towns, many people could do that activity. That naturally scales for participation, with the transactions of pay and consumption in an open market environment. The AI space seems much more like building large projects in tight teams with serious resource requirements. The end products are more varied than most people realize, but there is a common thread of replacing skilled humans in jobs with some kind of automation, or extracting value from humans with monitoring and some kind of enforcement. In other words, really contrasting to the open markets ideas. Honestly I cannot be enthusiastic to put the word "job" and "AI dev" in the same sentance. The real-world dynamics appear to be coalescing into high powered, competing silos, with a side-effect of replacing jobs in some cases.