Not all of us do. To be honest, the older I am, the less sense many laws make to me, and the more I'm willing to help people break them.

Of course, it will also probably cost somewhere around $50k...

But if local AI really does become pervasive, maybe it'll be one of the things people buy on credit, like cars.

I vibe-coded a semantic parser for Lojban.

A friend of mine is using it to work on dev tooling.

Another friend, a mathematician, has recently used it to prove a conjecture he published 15 years ago.

And people paying $100 or $200 are much more likely to max it out for purely psychological reasons - it crosses that threshold where I want to see my money's worth in full. Whereas people on $20 subs are more likely to be there just to get access to better models and features, and are not necessarily even doing any substantial work.

It's still questionable but I don't think it's in the same ballpark as what you describe.

Countries are not entitled to keep their citizens by force to prop up their economy. If the person doesn't want to stay, why should they be forced to?

You might want to contemplate the fact that you're literally rehashing the same arguments that Soviets and East Germany used to justify their exit visas. Except you're doing it from the other end of the pipe.