Hard to believe unless your are doing something much more complex than the things you listed

Russia is also technically 5x richer than Norway in that sense. Of course they have 25x more people..

And… what if its not enough?

But yeah, extreme inefficiency and inflated costs due to poor regulation seems like the main issue in the US.

It’s not however obvious that less regulation would solve that, i.e. you have countries like Switzerland or the Netherlands with entirely privatised healthcare (more so than in the US) yet they have quite strict regulation and price controls and are doing just fine.

Of course seems like local AI is more or less a flop in the consumer market at least?

But still IMHO even for general use macos with 8GB is almost unusable unless you use it like an Ipad.

And situation in countries in France where the average retiree now somehow has higher disposable income than those still working is far from ideal.

Such as?

The conditions for retirees relative to those still working in the USSR were fairly decent (by the end). But its not exactly fair since the demographic situation there was much better than it is now in most developed countries.

And then all capitalist countries in Europe these days (which coincidentally are all capitalist) generally have similar retirement systems to the US.

Anthropic isn’t handing out free PCs or forcing people to use them.

Or should every app/service be required to expose documented APIs?

So its unlikely a launch like this could be successful and would just result in the new Steam pc/console being dead on arrival..