Earlier this year, fast-food executives began to use the term “two-tier economy” to describe the trend they were seeing of wealthier consumers splurging on burgers and fries while lower-income households pulled back. Last year, Amazon Web Services EMEA Managing Director Tanuja Randery said a bifurcated model was emerging in how startups versus established corporations adopted AI.
Now a new two-tier economy is emerging, and it’s not about the income levels of consumers or the surge of certain technologies, but rather about the integrity of global maritime trade.
