# Jason Liu compares public transit and car ownership to owning a jet

> Original title: I feel this way about public transportation vs owning cars.

- Source: Jason Liu
- Published: 2026-11-02T16:03:35.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/m8q9ugc8b4i7qs1qwzq8ia6p6
- Original: https://x.com/jxnlco/status/2117286506742288813

## Summary

Jason Liu says he feels the same way about public transportation versus owning cars, but he would own a jet if he could. A quoted post says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argues that personal ownership of DRAM is globally wasteful and that memory belongs in data centers.

## Post

I feel this way about public transportation vs owning cars. 

But if I could I would own a jet.

## Quoted post @pubity

> OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes people owning RAM is wasteful, and that it belongs in data centers instead.
> 
> "From a global allocation perspective, actually, it’s quite terrible to have everyone have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer."

https://x.com/pubity/status/2116213541304746415