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Short term yes. But there is a reason why IDEs, game engine and other development tools have very high cheap or free versions for this market segment. Since these users end up having a huge influence on what companies they work at / end up working at spend their money on.

Of course LLMs are a commodity at this point but if someone is using Codex, Pi etc. at home it becomes more likely they won’t be picking Claude Code at their day job either.

Consumers want to pay as little as possible and companies want to charge them as much as they possibly can. That’s how markets work I don’t understand what does “entitlement” have to do with anything. If loud consumers somehow manage to coerce companies into lowering prices/offering better products that’s a massive win for almost everyone (of course usually its just noise that doesn’t change anything, however it did work on a few occasions).

I’m not sure why are people throwing the word “subsidizing” so much. Do we know that they are actually losing money on subscriptions?

Because if not that’s just normal market segmentation since enterprise users are willing to pay many times mores than private individuals.

Anthropic isn’t setting is’s price based on cost + fixed profit margin they are charging as much as each market is willing to bear..

Easily swappable batteries do have significant downsides, you either need to compromise on capacity or form factor.

Of course that doesn’t mean they should be hard to replace with some tools and effort.

To be fair back in those days laptops only lasted on battery power for a few hours at most (also old batteries had a very short lifetime compared to modern ones) so being able to swap it was an actually useful feature.

Depends on the jurisdiction? However usually it is a civil matter not an actual crime..

All Bethesda’s game generally suck without mods to a bigger or lesser extent. So it takes a while for a community of enthusiasts to appear but something like Oblivion or Skyrim were a much better experience 5-10 years after release than initially.

Of course then you have Starfield which is so unimaginable uninspiring that nothing can really be done to save it..

Well they did have Merkel who did more or less nothing useful for 15 years and dug the hole Germany is in now by kicking the can down they road..

It doesn’t even matter what Merz does or doesn’t do at this point, everything will have disastrous effects on a significant proportion of the population

Merkel dug the hole Germany’s economy is in now. No meaningful reform and disastrous energy policies for 15 years..

Your employer doesn’t have to ask it on day 1 if they “trust” you, though. They just have the option now. Of course unfortunately it will still affect a lot of people who aren’t cheating neg.

> A middle road exists, and it is solid, why it isn't being taken, I don't know.

That’s what Germany has now, though? i.e. companies are only allowed to require it from day 3

Employers still have the option to not require it on day one if they choose? It’s just that they have the option now if they feel specific employees are abusing it. Considering that you can’t fire people in Germany for taking an excessive number of sick days (even if you have good reason to believe they are faking it that doesn’t seem unreasonable)

> won majority of UK are being accused of being far right, nazi, russian.

Labour? I don’t think many people call Starmer any of those things..

And how and why did that suddenly happen?

> was side effect as well

A side effect of what exactly?

LLM output is not copyrightable, though? So effectively if you pay for it you can do whatever you want from it. That seems perfectly fair and reasonable.

> progressed due iterating on what has existed is how we progress

Progress was extremely slow until the 1800s. Coincidentally corporation and modern capitalism in general developed around the same time. Of course I’m not necessarily saying it was the main or direct course since it isn’t exactly possible to create an experiment comparing it to other systems (of course that was tried an failed completely in the USSR, Maoist China and similar places)

> fair bunch of scientific and technological breakthroughs

Outside of military technologies they had massively fallen behind the west by the 80s. Without the western tech they licensed or copied they were permanently stuck in the 50s. Even their crappy cars were licensed copies of cheap European cars from the 60s.

When it comes to consumer electronics, vehicles and a bunch of other things they were comically behind. So it’s really not a good example..

> monopolizes technologies and ossifies development.

As bad as it might be empirical evidence shows that historically a superior system has never existed (it might be feasible but everything that was tried underperformed).

> in general is counter to human progress.

Historically most evidence seems to point to the contrary.

Amongst other things after the printing press was created it was impossible for anyone who was an author to survive from their work unless they were independently wealthy or had rich patrons.

Europe probably has the “best geography” and the climate, though?

Coastal California is probably one of the nicest places on earth but generally US is quite harsh.

More like Cold War 2

How? you would make more money by only manufacturing generic drugs. Investing massive amounts of money to subsidize your competitors would be irrational.

Saying England implies in a way implies that the colonists in the Thirteen Colonies were in any way less complicit for making slavery widespread in the North American colonies. They were mostly autonomous and self regulating and chose to adopt the institution of slavery. They could have just treated the black slaves the same way as white indentured servants.

Caribbean colonies were of course quite different.

I’m pretty sure the colonists imposed it themselves because it benefited them. England didn’t force them to buy and exploit slaves.

And why would you manufacture anything but generics?

Ideally you’d just leave a shithole company like this (of course these days it might be exactly feasible..)

I suppose filling out a ticker or two every day and constantly bothering IT non-stop might be rhetorical best option (assumings one has enough energy for that)

The causal link between those two data points is not exactly obvious.

Actually markets are always rational, perfectly efficient and there are no speculative bubbles? Of course not.

So its obviously suboptimal, only question if there is a more optimal system.

> central planner who somehow has all the information

Every developed country is balancing that with free markets and its the mainstream view that a balanced system is optimal (the exact ratio is of course something’s that not quite settled).

> but we've never seen it anywhere in the US.

Well just copy paste the Swiss system (of course that’s not feasible both the “free market” and pro “socialized” single payer supporters would hate it). However they have a heavily regulated, reasonably affordable fully private healthcare system.

> is the single worker even needed

Because he is? I do not expect for some sort of universal “AGI” to emerge within my lifetime which would supplant humans in every area (of course what do I know.. but still there is no real indication we are even remotely close to that currently)

> default is to attribute all the generated value to them when it really isn't the case

Certainly, you should attribute a significant proportion to the people who installed the automated system and even more to those who designed it.

Well my point was that it might be optimal for the one doing the allocation and maximize their returns. That does not mean its optimal for the economy and society on the whole.

A suppose a solution might be going with a customizable harness like pi and merging Anthropic’s system prompt with a personalized custom one to remove all contractions

Speculation or actual investment? Assuming that the allocation of capital is somehow aligned with what’s optimal for the economy/society seems naive