does it matter? If mine is way better than I had before, why does it matter that someone else's is better still? My sister's $130 Moto G is much better than whatever phone she could afford 10 years. Does it matter that it's not a $1599 iPhone 16 Pro Max 1TB?

If the claim was that it would level the playing field, it seems like it wouldn't really do that?

A therapist is not a phone. Everybody deserves the best care, not just what is better than we have now. That's a low bar.

With most tech we reach law of diminishing returns. That is sure, there is still a variation, but very little:

- the best laptop/phone/tv in the world doesn’t offer mich more than the most affordable

- you can get for free a pen novadays that is almost as good at writing as the most expensive pens in the world (before BIC, in 1920s, pens were a luxury good reserved for wall street)

- toilets, washing mashines, heating systems and beds in the poorest homes are not very far off from the expensive homes (in EU at least)

- flying/travel is similar

- computer games and entertainment, and software in general

The more we remove human work from the loop, the more democratised and scalable the technology becomes.