Joke: ~1 in 70 American centimillionaires could be Anthropic staff
abhiadesai · x · 2026-10-29
- A viral estimate jokes that roughly 1 in 70 Americans with $100M+ net worth will be Anthropic staff — and around 1 in 50 or more once OpenAI employees are included.
- The reblogger pairs it with Pareto's "circulation of elites" theory, suggesting AI labs are minting a new elite class as wealth concentrates among lab staff.
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