He made a product you find useful. Even if he doesn’t need to be rewarded more, he’s proven himself an effective allocator of capital. Give him a dollar and he’ll likely use it to develop some product you’ll enjoy in the future as well.
That’s presumptuous. He didn’t make a product I find useful, and a dollar more he makes will be used to squeeze a tiny bit more out of those he employs and/or out of society for his own benefit. I’m not enabling that as much as I can.
Anything else. I live in Switzerland and prefer to use galaxus, Migros, inter discount, mueller, foletti, or buy second hand. Absolutely anything I can to not buy from Amazon even if the alternative is 10–15% more expensive.
Contrasted to making Sam Altman even richer ? Or Sergei and Larry even richer ? I don't see the difference. Not meaning it's ok to go the Amazon way, but that it's not ok to use any of those
And I personally don't use gmail, block all ads on YT, etc. I avoid all these when practical and possible, rather than throwing my arms up in the air. Doesn't mean I never use their services, but I do my best not to.
Oh I do agree and I wish more people did like you do, which is my point: instead of discussing what billionaire ego island gets richer, let's just not use their tools and discuss together what we want as a society. If the cost of AI is higher than its benefits, then let's not use it. From any company.