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Top 5% of earners in the US are making $340k USD[0]. Is it unreasonable for people working at OpenAI to get 2-3x that?

If you want to be angry at the unbalanced concentration of wealth, take a look at Bezos[1].

[0] https://www.unbiased.com/discover/banking/how-much-income-pu...

[1] https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

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Why do you feel they deserve that? For making the Internet even more of a wasteland of automated junk?

you really can't see any benefits to the technology they are creating?

No, not really. And certainly not to the degree that the above commenter was assigning. It's just enabling the world to become even more complex.

There's some benefits, but also massive, massive society destroying downsides. In retrospect, the downsides of social media like addiction, social isolation, and political misinformation, radicalization were hand waved away. We were told "THINK OF THE UPSIDE OF SOCIAL MEDIA, THINK OF THE CONNECTIONS" and now think of how isolated and depressed and addicted everyone is now. The exact same thing will happen with AI and VR.

It’s possible to be angry at both!

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