For me, personally - before the startup ecosystem happened in my country, it was extremely difficult to break through. If you worked for a large entity - good for you. If you wanted to do something on your own - you weren't treated seriously, and it was very difficult to get through.
Now, people from anywhere, can visit meetups and hackathons to get up to speed, and gain connections. And accelerators like YC provide resources and mentoring to the ones that are the best.
Also, notice that YC has an open application, and they don't look at your social status, your wealth, nor your connections, when judging your application.
Of course it's not perfect - being from US, or the bay area, helps. Knowing people who got through YC and can help you prepare your application also helps.
But I haven't heard of anyone with a better idea for solving this.
or rich get richer, poor get poorer and will not have access to AI tools, society will collapse, more jobs will be low paying, most on demand skills would be everything done by physical activity
Computers, the web, mobile drastically increased the productivity of office workers, but somehow they don't work 15 hour work weeks.
The great promise of robotics and AI is the possibility of decoupling societal stability from the vagaries of the poor.
In our current compounding-capital model, what you get is a depreciation of all human capital to zero, therefore everybody who doesn't already own capital is fucked for eternity because they have nothing to compound and get the ball rolling. Zero social mobility, absolute polarization between an AI-owning class and an own-nothing class for as long as revolution is prevented.
By having armies of semi-intelligent armed drones, that will kill the poor if they decide to riot?
We already have many things that are given away for free, whereas a 100 years ago they were considered luxury (books, pens, papers, access to knowledge in general, and in Europe - public transport and healthcare, plus to some extent food, heat and electricity).