pyramid schemes

it strikes me that it seems like a lot of things are pyramid schemes in the sense that they rely on some asymmetry of knowledge that is exploited basically which is arbitraged so right now i'm thinking about the fact that this kind of this bifurcation coming up in terms of people who know about and know how to use ai tools for people who don't know about those things. so, for example, if everybody was using ai tools and everybody is like selling to each other, it's kind of pointless, whereas the thing that we will get is basically a small number of people who understand and use ai tools selling to everybody who has not yet discovered how to use them. and use them. so basically they're taking advantage of their ignorance in the same way that, for example, in recent decades developers who have technical knowledge could take advantage of people who don't have technical knowledge in order to build on products and make money that wa