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The developers that made Google and Facebook and such were highly paid. The people who were hired for a dollar an hour to train the anti-CP models most certainl
by cguess 2y ago
The developers that made Google and Facebook and such were highly paid. The people who were hired for a dollar an hour to train the anti-CP models most certainly were not and have instead suffered horrible trauma.
Externalities are so easily ignored if they don't happen in SF (and even the ones that do. For instance, take a look at the pricing out of affordable housing for all the cooks, dish washers, janitors etc who cater to that highly paid workforce but now have to commute hours each way).
- sien 2y agoMate, I'm nowhere near San Francisco. Just because San Francisco is disastrously run despite staggering riches and has horribly magnified problems does not mean it's the fault of people who started companies in San Jose.
- ModernMech 2y agoYou don't see a connection between tech CEOs who hoard vast wealth, and a public sphere starved of real investment?
- sien 2y agoThe US government spends 10 trillion dollars year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending_in_the_Uni... That's larger than the GDP of all but two countries in the world. That is not starving. On top of that, tech CEOs and highly paid tech workers pay a lot of tax. Far more than they cost the country.
- probablybetter 2y agoand a lot of it is directly funneled to crony's of the current king... I doubt DOGE will recommend cuts to SpaceX funding. I need to remind you that Mush has invented nothing nor is he an engineer. His vast personal wealth is extracted, and at least part of it's vastness is due to corruption. Mush's personal views expressed on his own-media-trumpet Xitter, have hampered more technological innovation than he has ever enabled or paid for. BTW what's SpaceX carbon footprint like? This 'man' also just paid for a slice of the US presidency that just pulled the US out of a global treaty to attempt to address human-caused climate crises that are unfolding in front of our face on a daily basis as predicted. Mush has done net harm to Earth, not good.
- chairmansteve 2y agoEach Tesla sold in the USA gets a $7500 subsidy. That is the company's entire profit and more. SpaceX has received $15 billion in government contracts. I don't think either company would exist without government support.