Digital code creates wealth 100 times faster than manufacturing
In the modern economy, a few lines of software can generate as much capital as a massive factory, allowing tech leaders to outpace traditional industry by a staggering margin.
A single developer writing code in a home office can now generate wealth at one hundred times the efficiency of a massive manufacturing plant. This shift has fundamentally reshaped the American financial landscape, where a small group of roughly three million ultra-wealthy individuals now hold fifty million dollars or more in assets. Unlike the industrial age, which relied on physical materials and labor, digital wealth follows a power-law distribution where the top winners capture nearly half of all economic gains.
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