Startups are not magic. They don’t change the laws of wealth creation. They just represent a point at the far end of the curve. - Paul Graham

The same recipe that makes individuals rich makes countries powerful. Let the nerds keep their lunch money, and you rule the world.

The sweet spot for present-day AI seems to be projects that were constrained by the rate at which humans could produce text. That's why it works so well for programming. Basically programmers produced valuable text. But there are lots of other projects with this quality.

it was not till the Industrial Revolution that wealth creation definitively replaced corruption as the best way to get rich.