In the case they don't get high salaries from this activity, there is also a solution. The next step in ~10 years could be to offer their services to governments to offer "automated court decisions".

Then the people who funded / trained this "justice" out of their good heart, would actually have leverage, in terms of concrete power.

It's a much more subtle way to capture power, if you can replace the judges with your software.

I guess they can get them to rewrite the US Constitution to remove that pesky "fair trial" bit and, since they would control the narrative, delete 1000+ years of common law.

Brave new world, indeed...

Anthropic pays their engineers pretty well. They're doing just fine, at least for as long as people are pouring money into their company. But that's everyone in this space, isn't it?

Thanks but no thanks.

Don't think that's silly at all.

Hope not - I haven't purchased a Nestle brand in years for this exact reason.

That isn't silly, that's one of the only ways to exercise agency under hypercapitalism. I recently cancelled my Amazon Prime membership and got a Costco membership for the same reason. I don't get every product I want, but I'm also okay with that.

This has to be a meme. Costco is peak hypercapitalism lol.

Could you say more?

It's a 500B company that undercuts everyone else with incredible efficiency, just like Amazon. It's an example of how capitalism can be great. If you really want to get of out of capitalism, you can just buy directly from farmers or grow your own food.

The whole thing about no ethical consumption under capitalism is a just a way to enjoy the conveniences of capitalism on a moral high ground. It's totally doable, you just might not enjoy it haha.

I guess the angle I was coming at it from is that they pay their employees a living wage. I need to buy toilet paper from somewhere, and between Amazon and Costco I would much rather give my money to Costco.

The secret is buying a bidet so you dont need to buy from either ever again!

Hell, just buy from Wallyworld where you get low, low prices and pseudo-socialism with their employees on the food stamps.

The camel's gotta get its nose in the tent somehow.