AI identity

Portable Identity: Why Billionaires Can’t Buy What Matters

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Restaurant scene showing wealthy businessperson ignored while modest teacher receives VIP treatment, illustrating The Great Decoupling where contribution graph (3,847) determines status over wealth

Portable Identity: Why Billionaires Can’t Buy What Matters The First Valuable Thing Wealth Cannot Purchase December 2029. Manhattan. The kind of restaurant where reservations require six months and connections. Two people arrive within minutes of each other. Person A: Net worth $47 billion. Tech founder. Eight homes. Private jet. Annual income: $2.1 billion. Person B: … Portable Identity: Why Billionaires Can’t Buy What Matters

The Architecture That Makes Platforms Optional

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Master key diagram showing portable identity unlocking platforms and enabling Web4 open standards

Why Portable Identity Is Not Coming—It’s Inevitable Something irreversible is happening to the internet’s foundational layer. Not a new application. Not a faster protocol. Not a better interface. The architecture of identity itself is shifting from captivity to portability. And the economic logic that built trillion-dollar empires on identity lock-in is about to invert completely. … The Architecture That Makes Platforms Optional