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Comment by shimman | Hacker News Reader

Probably MistralAI or any of the Chinese companies that aren't throwing billions down the drain while American society lacks healthcare, childcare, and good wages.

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American society has higher wages than almost any other developed nation [1], so it's objectively incorrect to say the US doesn't have good wages. It chooses to make you pay for private childcare and healthcare, both of which are high-quality but stupid expensive. It's a tradeoff like anything else a nation/society creates and prioritizes.

No idea how that connects to the idea that Mistral or DeepSeek are somehow the "good guys" though?

[1]https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/average-annual-wages...

I like how you use average and not median, also while completely ignoring how bad income inequality is (worse than the gilded age ffs) or that the American elites stole $50 trillion from the bottom 90% over the last few decades:

https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-ameri...

I'm glad you mention the "trade off" where it's elites trading off the lives of American workers for money. Makes it quite apparent where you sit on the table of equality.

You want Anthropic to fund your healthcare or something? Also, have you seen the impact of these models on healthcare? Also most of our GDP growth this year is from AI buildouts, would you rather that be negative?

And not even considering: Chinese AI companies are the good guys???

Yes, yes I would prefer that. Better than a total societal collapse.

Anthropic are not the good guys either. So here’s to hoping the Chinese pop the bubble.

Nobody anywhere is a good guy but I don’t think you’ve managed to pick the lesser of the evils here

None of the money being spent by Anthropic was going to go towards healthcare or childcare.

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