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How are unions any better than mega corps? My brother is part of a union and the leaders make millions.

He's pigenholed at the same low pay rate and can't ever get a raise, until everyone in the same role also gets a raise (which will never happen). It traps people, because many union jobs can't or won't innovate, and when they look elsewhere, are underskilled (and stuck).

You mention 'deepseek'. Are you joking? It's owned by the Chinese government..and you claim to hate fascism? Lol?

Big companies only have the power now, because the processing power to run LLMs is expensive. Once there are break throughs, anyone can have the same power in their house.

We have been in a tech slump for awhile now. Large companies will drive innovations for AI that will help everyone.

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That's not a union - that's another corporate entity parading as a union. A union, operating as it should, is governed by the workers as a collective and enriches all of them at the same rate.

Deepseek is open source, which is why I mention it. It was made by the Chinese government but it shows a way to create these models at vastly reduced cost and was done with transparent methodology so we can learn from it. I am not saying "the future is Deepseek", I am saying "there are lessons to be learned from Deepseek".

I actually agree with you on the corporate bootstrap argument - I think we ought to be careful, because if they ever figure out how to control the output they will turn off outputs that help develop local models (gotta protect that moat!), but for now I use them myself to study and learn about building locally and I think everyone else ought to get on this train as well. For now, the robust academic discourse is a very very good thing.

The top of megacorps make 4-6 orders of magnitude more than labor union leaders. To claim that there is no difference is mindboggeling.

Having 10 million and 30 million aren't all that different to the minimum wage workers barely making ends meet.

Just because your brother's union sucks, doesn't mean they all do.

I've been on both sides of it (in a union and working with union members when there was no other choice).

They all work the same way. I'm fundamentally against the idea of unions after seeing how they stifle innovation in nearly all industries they control.

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