A book framework (Acemoglu & Robinson) Cohen cites: nations succeed or fail based on whether their institutions are inclusive (broad access to opportunity, participation, and reward) or extractive (concentrated control that funnels gains to a narrow elite) — not, as popularly assumed, because of culture, geography, or resource endowment.
Cohen draws an implicit organizational analogy: a company's internal "institutions" (who gets access to new tools, whose ideas get funded, who can move roles) can be run inclusively or extractively, and he favors the inclusive end — visible in his preference for Grassroots AI Adoption via Opt-In FOMO (opt-in access anyone can earn) over top-down mandates, and in the LinkedIn's Full-Stack Builder Model's promise of role mobility.