Large companies consolidate industries and have the asymmetric advantage of more resources than individuals. They can leverage AI and other economic models to extract more and more from individuals. As we saw recently with Justice Department case against RealPage, the large companies can collude without officially colluding through better information access.

The end result is that there is less slack in the economic system. There are fewer and fewer opportunities for individuals to leverage inefficiencies. It means there is less room to be human. Less room to make mistakes.