In context
At MIT, Harvard, or any other school, supervising an undergraduate researcher is a lot of work, costs a lot of money, involves a lot of meetings, and the results are not reliably excellent. Asking Claude is easier, faster, and may produce better results. It’s also cheaper, which is no accident: Harvard allows every Harvard student and faculty member to request a Claude token budget of $2,500 per month, even as research funding is continuously threatened and the University lays off staff.



yeah but imagine if rent were a number that was made up by the person selling it and it had no connection to its use value
What do you mean “use value?” Ins’t growing the economy useful enough?!
who are you growing it for? or do you think “growing” scraps means we’re not still getting scraps?