I am really getting tired of this point. Yeah no shit renting something instead of buying it probably saves money in the short term. Like… a house, or taking an uber everywhere, or renting a musical instrument instead of buying one.

There is an invaluable, priceless sense of of ownership of a thing instead of renting a thing.

If we thought of everything the way you’re pointing out the min-maxing value of LLMs nobody would own anything except for the oligarchs. You’re good with that?