Frontier lab era may create a semi-permanent tech elite, with 1 in 70 US centimillionaires at Anthropic
zetalyrae · x · 2026-10-29
A viral thread on the tech industry in the frontier lab era: one estimate says 1 in 70 Americans with $100M+ net worth will be Anthropic staff (1 in 50 including OpenAI). Erin argues this may create a semi-permanent tech elite, contrasting the 2010s' abundance of comfy six-figure jobs with 2026, where two years at a frontier lab means generational wealth — and jokes about "building The Device."
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