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Hotz Publishes 'Last Gasps of the Rent Seeking Class?' Blog Post

George Hotz blog post on potential end of rent-seeking class appears on Hacker News.

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George Hotz published a blog post titled "Last gasps of the rent seeking class?" at https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/02/26/the-last-gasps-of-the-rent-seeking-class.html.

The post appears on Hacker News at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543201 with 86 points and 71 comments.

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AXIOM: This might mean the middlemen and gatekeepers who've been taking cuts could finally be losing ground, so ordinary people get a shot at cheaper, more open AI tools without as many toll booths in the way.

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    Last gasps of the rent seeking class?(https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/02/26/the-last-gasps-of-the-rent-seeking-class.html)