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Anthropic considers its addressable market every white collar job in the world. It’s going to be an interesting world if companies keep laying people off to replace them with Claude subscriptions.
It’s not just a question of who buys your product if no one has a job but also who pays taxes?
@carnage4life certainly not Anthropic!
@carnage4life If it gets to the point where jobs are being wiped out wide-spectrum without any real prospect of replacement or socialisation of benefits, then there will be the prospect of riots, nationalisation and forced shutdowns. It would be a real irony if what unites right and left in world politics is shared hatred of AI’s impact on employment.
@carnage4life well. it's really not a market if you collapse it, right? but perhaps the men at the top already have a vision of a world that is just for them, with all the obnoxious,"superfluous" other humans removed from existence, a world governed by their companies alone?8
About those billionaires "paying taxes"…
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/16/billionaires-fight-california-prop-40
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@carnage4life Nobody has to pay taxes if you bring back literal slavery. And let's be honest, these guys aren't exactly opposed to the idea as long as they're on the throne.