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> There are so many things that can go wrong, so many other things that will set your company on fire without warnings, and that doesn't give people the time to

> There are so many things that can go wrong, so many other things that will set your company on fire without warnings, and that doesn't give people the time to think strategically on how to tackle certain difficult scenarios. > never seen such amount of power in the hands of a few companies. These two points seem contradictory. If you are very powerful, you can draw on great resources, and you can address many things. Twitter has more than enough resource to prevent it from being the extremely harmful manipulation machine that it is. There is no excuse beyond “we want money more than a healthy society.”

Talanes 5y ago
>These two points seem contradictory. If you are very powerful, you can draw on great resources, and you can address many things. Power isn't a single resource that can be accumulated and spent. The accumulation of soft power over public discourse isn't the sort of thing that inherently helps you put out fires, and in fact managing that growth can be one of the fires. >There is no excuse beyond “we want money more than a healthy society.” Which GP covered in their 4th point. Even a CEO who doesn't believe that answers to a board who does. And if the board has reservations, they answer to shareholders who do. It's a structure that continually passes the buck so no one has to consciously decide to put profits over people. Fiduciary duty is a pretty slick moral hack, making the act of chasing the dollar feel like a communal good.
- simonebrunozzi 5y ago
  Exactly the point I was trying to make. Thanks.
Aerroon 5y ago
>Twitter has more than enough resource to prevent it from being the extremely harmful manipulation machine that it is. But would you actually want them to do that? What if their idea of "extremely harmful manipulation" is different from yours?
Nasrudith 5y ago
> There is no excuse beyond “we want money more than a healthy society.” Socrates's prosecutors called, they want their undisprovable accusation back! Serious any claims of "ruining" or "harming" society are specious and a classic symptom of a moral panic. You would think people would have learned from atonal music, Jazz, rock and roll, and rap alone having already ruined society. Let alone allowing women and minorities to vote and gay marriage and things getting better from a "ruined" society.

Talanes 5y ago

>These two points seem contradictory. If you are very powerful, you can draw on great resources, and you can address many things. Power isn't a single resource that can be accumulated and spent. The accumulation of soft power over public discourse isn't the sort of thing that inherently helps you put out fires, and in fact managing that growth can be one of the fires. >There is no excuse beyond “we want money more than a healthy society.” Which GP covered in their 4th point. Even a CEO who doesn't believe that answers to a board who does. And if the board has reservations, they answer to shareholders who do. It's a structure that continually passes the buck so no one has to consciously decide to put profits over people. Fiduciary duty is a pretty slick moral hack, making the act of chasing the dollar feel like a communal good.

simonebrunozzi 5y ago
Exactly the point I was trying to make. Thanks.

Aerroon 5y ago

>Twitter has more than enough resource to prevent it from being the extremely harmful manipulation machine that it is. But would you actually want them to do that? What if their idea of "extremely harmful manipulation" is different from yours?

Nasrudith 5y ago

> There is no excuse beyond “we want money more than a healthy society.” Socrates's prosecutors called, they want their undisprovable accusation back! Serious any claims of "ruining" or "harming" society are specious and a classic symptom of a moral panic. You would think people would have learned from atonal music, Jazz, rock and roll, and rap alone having already ruined society. Let alone allowing women and minorities to vote and gay marriage and things getting better from a "ruined" society.