Prox

The article doesn’t actually cite compensation as an issue. The actual issue is lack of skilled talent, which is due to a couple of things including

• These jobs require relevant skills; can’t just hire someone off the street as you can in the service industry.
• The US spent ages telling people that they were idiots if they didn’t go to college, which pushed people away from trade skills
• The Trump administration made aggressive cuts to training programs for blue-collar workers

FTA:

Anthropic warned against “[t]he prospect of ruinous statutory damages—$150,000 times 5 million books”: that would mean $750 billion.

So part of their argument is actually that they stole so much that it would be impossible for them/anyone to pay restitution, therefore we should just let them off the hook.

My work recently gave me an iPhone - first one I’ve ever owned - and the lack of a 3.5mm jack just fucking sucks. It makes everything so much less convenient. Bluetooth is so much slower to get going than a simple plug-in pair of cans (or even buds), and then that’s another thing with a battery that I have to rely on.

Such a garbage decision. Now I understand what fashion truly is, I guess.