I was on my way but the train broke down again!!

Don't we, though?

Yeah - maybe we get a free token on IPO day.

In contrast, back when RedHat went public they reached out to everyone on the open source mailing lists, and gave everyone a few shares as thanks for the work they were benefiting from. I got some shares even though all I had done was post some free video format converters.

Because if we did, we'd each get about 1000 bucks.

You do understand how individual slices decrease in size as you divide the pie more ways, right...?

That’s a rather astounding amount of cash to have extracted per capita.

It truly is. And, looked at that way, it is an indictment of the systems that allow this, and yet another piece of incontrovertible evidence that we need to change those systems to bring money, and power, back from the ultra-mega-wealthy to the populace at large.

It just, y'know, isn't a good argument for having everyone work for Anthropic ^_^