> Because it makes Anthropic burn more money

Fixed that for you.

"Earn"?

Cache duration is arbitrary. What it actually does (if used en masse) is decrease the amount of oversubscription their infra can handle..

Earn is synonymous with profit, and this hurts their profits. Introducing latency can benefit much more people and actually make usage more efficient. Reducing latency can sieze up a functioning system.

Lately, I’ve been thinking about how this related to fractional banking. If you were to eliminate fractional banking introduced in the US by Hamilton, you would destroy a lot of current prosperity.

It’s unknown whether our current economic model will work out long term. It mostly relies on the US being the default reserve currency for most nations. Hopefully that lasts a long time.