Few founders do this and the ones who do are solving their own problems. For Anthropic it's primarily hiring.

But as a PR person I can guarantee you it's not possible to go around such perception shifts through money alone.

"Get rid of jobs" was a pitch to investors. They needed a new trillion dollar idea. For it to be worth a trillion dollars it has to take a trillion dollars from somewhere. They looked at the economy and decided the only place it could come from is white collar payroll.

Unfortunately for them more than just the investors were paying attention to the pitch. So now they are trying to say "of course it won't unemploy people (wink) it may even create more jobs (snicker)."

	▲	ben_w 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> For it to be worth a trillion dollars it has to take a trillion dollars from somewhere. Musk's SpaceX TAM is roughly as you say, it's "subsume all currently existing desk jobs", which makes it simultaneously absurdly over-confident in the short term and treating this all as a zero-sum game where those jobs just go away and no new (potentially also automatable) jobs get invented, which in turn says he doesn't think anywhere is going to shift from primary and secondary economies to tertiary economies. Zuckerberg may be full of himself, but does at least (pay someone else to?) write a vision that at least has growth-sounding phrases in it: https://www.meta.com/superintelligence/

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SecretDreams 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> go around such perception shifts through money alone.

Have the people with money considered doing more charitable acts/events for the people with less money to demonstrate that the tech industry isn't just here to extract wealth from the poor/many and transfer it to rich/few?

	▲	OtherShrezzing 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> to demonstrate that the tech industry isn't just here to extract wealth from the poor/many and transfer it to rich/few? I think the problem is that the tech industry in large is just here to extract wealth from the many and transfer it to the few. That's why it's focused on scale. People aren't dumb, and most of the time they can see when they're on the receiving end of an extractive relationship - even if there's lots of PR work going on to hide that reality from them.
	▲	sseagull 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I don’t know how much it has ever been true, but it feels like today’s wealthy, especially in tech, have completely abandoned “noblesse oblige” - fulfilling social responsibilities that their wealth should bring them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noblesse_oblige