AI, digital abundance and the price of scarcity
One post predicts a split as AI amplifies the internet’s effects: deflation for digital goods, inflation for scarce and status goods. Another argues that the tech elite’s shared tastes could concentrate luxury price increases.
TLDR
A post argues that the internet, especially when amplified by AI, makes demand easier to scale than supply. Digital goods such as text and feeds are the exception in its account: supply wins, producing deflation. For physical, human or status goods, it predicts demand will win and drive sharp inflation. A separate post argues that the new tech elite’s similar tastes could make luxury inflation uneven, using Soho versus uptown as an illustration.
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