Context Arbitrage: When AI Extracts EM Data Without Returning Value
Context Arbitrage is the extraction of economic value from local behavioral and cultural signals for global AI model training without reciprocal return to the originating community.
Digital Economy
The Expertise Tax: How AI Compresses Mid-Tier Wages in Emerging Markets
The Expertise Tax is the compression of wage premiums earned by mid-tier credentialled workers when AI tools embed specialist expertise into software, making their skills reproducible by less-trained workers at subscription cost.