A corporation so big it starts doing the job of the collective / state - interesting, whos job are they taking here? Why not pay taxes and let us, the people decide how to use it instead?
A corporation so big it starts doing the job of the collective / state - interesting, whos job are they taking here? Why not pay taxes and let us, the people decide how to use it instead?
> Why not pay taxes and let us, the people decide how to use it instead?
Maybe because the current administration has no interest in doing this and Anthropic doesn't want to wait for this cluster-f of a situation to sort itself out. Even if the current admin was for progressive taxation it might take them years to sort through all the bureaucracy to use this money effectively which might be much too late.
But in theory I think you're right.
Straight out of Snowcrash.
This is for PR. They need to be able to generate more revenue than they take from economically-redundant humans in order to make them whole. This is certainly possible, but it's going to take government action; AI companies are never going to return that much money left to their own devices.
The cyberpunk future awaits us! All hail the corpo owning class. I can't wait to move to the company town, those always work out well.
Don Fanucci was publicly donating a lot of money in The Godfather.