Then compare, say, Massachusetts to high functioning north Europe systems. You will shrink the lifestyle and climate factors down to a pretty minuscule difference, but you will still find that the spending is dramatically higher.
You're not wrong at all that the US has some systematic issues that place additional strain on the healthcare system, but it's a "yes and" situation here. Even accounting for those, we spend far, far too much because our system is extractive.
On the basis that public corporations are exclusively a legal construct which can, and indeed already do, have arbitrary rules. Should the individual wish to maintain control over their company they can simply keep it private indefinitely.
And, we have granted them limited liability. Not something anyone, or any group is entitled to. It’s appropriate to condition that special treatment towards our goals.
"Because we can make arbitrary rules" is not a justification or basis. Again, I am not saying it cannot or should not be done; I am asking for the justification.
"Because I can" sounds like what my grandfather used to say while beating the shit out of me for questioning his cult-derived arbitrary doctrine. We can do better than that.
> Fable is probably at least as good as the average software engineer and costs $50/wk on the max plan vs a software engineer who would cost closer to $4000 a week.
That's because the max plans are _massively_ subsidized. At API pricing the kind of usage to replace the value of a SWE is going to be way, WAY more than $50/wk. Orders of magnitude more. And to remain a frontier model org that kind of pricing has to continue in perpetuity.
I think the question is even a bit more nuanced than that. Even if frontier models can maintain a big gap that gap has to actually _matter_. If a local model satisfies my everyday use cases adequately then I may not really care that a frontier model is 5, 10, 100x better at ultra high order reasoning tasks.
I think that reality is probably not all that far off for a huge swath of use cases.
100%, I thought about writing that out explicitly. I really feel like we are extremely close to reaching that kind of breaking point for most folks LLM use cases.
OP probably should have put an example in this post. That said they look like... syntax highlighted code.