[ungovernableCat]

Yep. An American is free to pay $80k for a Tesla while the rest of the world buys a BYD for $25k An American is free to pay $100 for Insulin while the rest of the world pays $20. So too will an American pay for OpenAI while they start blocking foreign competitors from the market "for security reasons" the more the government gets entangled into the scheme.

[darth_avocado]

There’s a difference between Americans paying $80K and getting an overpriced car in return and paying a ton of money to OpenAI and getting nothing in return.

[gizajob]

What do you mean, nothing? They have an app that they can ask to read wikipedia for them and turn it into bullet points.

[bigyabai]

People say this, but I disagree. It's all one big slippery slope of zero value - the more a company can charge you for fewer features, the more they profit.

The parent is correct to identify that a lack of free market controls are what's destroying us here. You wouldn't have to pay out the nose like this if the fed didn't build and enforce monopolies for fun. But now we're here, after 20 years of Google's AdSense monopoly and Apple's App Store monopoly, throwing stones at OpenAI for ruining the fun.

Feels like we deserve this, everyone ignored the warning signs and pushed us way up the corporate escalation ladder.

[mvdtnz]

What if Americans started voting in their own interests.

[Yizahi]

First, Americans need voting fixed. How can anyone vote for reasonable alternative in the archaic first past the post system, where a slight majority takes all the votes of every voter? It prevents any new small party to grow into bigger party by actually working as a minority in the Senate/Congress.

[karmakurtisaani]

Either that or hating the minorities, so... yeah.