Actually with generative AIs we soon won't need English as a middle ground anymore. Which is quite revolutionary. Right now English kind of serves as a common ground for doing international business. There are a few other languages that are important of course. But thanks to the British, English spread the furthest. Historically, that has created an advantage for native speakers and those educated well enough to master it. The Romans used to have the same thing with Latin. Latin has been a dead language for quite some time but it's still taught in a lot of places.

This puts native speakers at and advantage. We're talking billions of people on this planet. The tech that OpenAI recently demoed, allows real time translation of pretty much any language to any other language. Babelfish just stopped being science fiction. On a side note, somebody needs to productize a fish shaped bluetooth earbud.

Anyway, that enables a whole range of people that are currently hard to interact with because they don't speak English well, or at all, to interact with quite literally anyone on the planet that speaks something that LLMs can make sense of. Even people only speaking relatively obscure dialects or languages. That's going to have an effect on international trade and other exchanges. Not speaking English is going to stop being a hurdle.

And likewise, LLMs can make it easier to navigate bureaucracy and deal with other local customs and procedures. I live in the EU.