AI Disrupts Information Rents First But Spares Entrenched Tollbooths
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5/ AI is changing this. But won’t kill every tollbooth equally. Information rents become vulnerable first. But watch whose agent the machine is: if the insurer owns the prior-auth AI, the insurer keeps the rent. The rents AI can’t kill are the ones only a movement can.
1/ Much of the anger at capitalism is deserved—and it’s our job to fix it. The problem isn’t profit. It’s tollbooths: systems that collect where choice, exit, transparency, or accountability have failed. Five rackets. One play. With AI about to flip the board.
2/ The opposite of a racket isn’t a nonprofit. It’s a business that gets paid when something actually improves—and bears the costs when it doesn’t.