一些美国学者称,好的想法将比劳动力和资本更为稀缺,他们认为,现在机器正前所未有地取代人类劳动力,同时未来,创意将成为真正的稀缺资源。这意味着未来的赢家,将不是那些能够提供廉价劳动力或者普通资本的人。而有幸成为赢家的第三类人应该是那些能够进行创新、生产新产品和提供新服务以及开创新商业模式的人。这种创造性带来的收入分配复符合幂律、长尾理论,即很少数的赢家获得了大部分回报,而其他的参与者则处在“长尾”中。 Some American scholars argue that good ideas will be more scarce than labor and capital. They believe that machines are now replacing human labor as never before, and that creativity will become a truly scarce resource in the future. This means that future winners will not be those who can provide cheap labor or ordinary capital. A third category who are fortunate to be winners should be those who can innovate, produce new products and offer new services, and start new business models. This creative distribution of income distribution fits the power law, the long tail theory that a handful of winners receive the bulk of the return, while the other participants are in “long tail.”