“openai should pay its taxes” is a coherent position “openai should pay its taxes, then personally build our housing and run our schools because city hall didn’t” is not but that’s the argument being by the sf gate in this article the funniest part is that if openai actually did it, the backlash would be immediate build 1000 apartments in the mission? gentrification start a school? billionaires shouldn’t control education fund a hospital? keep tech out of healthcare we don’t even have to speculate. we’ve run this experiment already zuck gave $100m to newark schools and got attacked for billionaire influence over public education he and priscilla chan gave $75m to sf general, the largest private gift in its history. a few years later, people were protesting to get his name off the hospital ray dalio put $100m toward helping connecticut’s poorest students. the public-private partnership collapsed amid fights over transparency and private influence so what exactly is the acceptable option here? pay taxes? apparently not enough directly solve the problem? unacceptable corporate influence give the government even more money? that’s just taxes again if sf takes hundreds of millions from openai and still can’t deliver housing or education, the obvious question is what happened to the hundreds of millions not why openai hasn’t started running schools and building apartments itself