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Those companies are solving problems with logistics and engineering. Twitter is fundamentally trying to solve a people problem, which is much fuzzier. Every im
by edmundsauto 4y ago
Those companies are solving problems with logistics and engineering.
Twitter is fundamentally trying to solve a people problem, which is much fuzzier. Every impression I've had from "public Elon" is that he is absolutely wretched at people-problems-at-scale. I'm also not sure there is any human ever who has been able to solve people problems at Twitter's scale.
- permo-w 4y agoJohn Maynard Keynes
- edmundsauto 4y agoCould you elaborate? He wrote a book that many considered important, but how specifically did he solve people problems? To me it sounds like he understood emergent behaviors in economics, but didn’t those economicists also believe in the rational actor? That is not an accurate assumption about humanity.
- permo-w 4y agoKeynes’ solutions to human problems on a macro scale lifted millions upon millions of people out of poverty in the post-war era keynesianism eventually failed because corporations and large capital holders will not act rationally towards the whole when they have interests that benefit themselves. so I suppose you’re right. but that doesn’t change the fact that for a good 30 years his ideas and solutions made life better for a huge number of people