OpenAI Tax Critique Backlash: Doing Good Always Leads to Attacks
beffjezos · x · 2026-08-31
Responding to claims that OpenAI should pay taxes and directly fund city infrastructure like housing and schools, a user argues this is a double bind. The post suggests that if OpenAI actually built apartments or schools, they would face immediate backlash over gentrification or billionaire influence, citing the criticism Mark Zuckerberg received for donations to Newark schools and SF General Hospital as historical precedent.
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