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> when the $200 tier in reality produces 5-10 thousand dollars in monthly costs

are you asserting that the actual dollar cost to anthropic for a heavy user was 5-10k? or are you basing this on the (fabricated) value of those tokens, ie potentially lost revenue from a pay-per-token user.

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I am basing it on self-reports of advanced users on popular platforms such as reddit, reporting of Ed Zitron AND the official affidavit of the Anthropic CFO in relation to their court-filed complaint against DoD (for being excluded), stating that the total revenue of Anthropic since its founding and TO DATE had been at meager 5 Billion dollars. So wasting hundreds of billions of dollars per year to make a cumulative revenue of 5B to date does not quite sound like a financially sound business to me.

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