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The game industry manages it because a lot of people dream of making games, in the same way as I'm sure Tesla and SpaceX have a lot of extremely dedicated emplo
by JansjoFromIkea 4y ago
The game industry manages it because a lot of people dream of making games, in the same way as I'm sure Tesla and SpaceX have a lot of extremely dedicated employees because the work they're doing is literally a life long dream.
There's some very interesting things to solve and achieve at a platform like Twitter but I doubt very many people have had them as life long targets for themselves to achieve.
- WrtCdEvrydy 4y agoThat's the thing... Tesla and SpaceX were revolutionizing electric cars, batteries and launching humanity into the stars. Twitter allows hot takes and racism, not exactly comparable.
- bumby 4y agoAlso: SpaceX and Tesla were heavily subsidized with taxpayer money. To date, something like 98% of SpaceX contracts are govt. I’m not sure about the Boring company but I suspect its business model is heavily dependent on taxpayer funds too. Although he's often held up as a paragon of free market capitalism, it looks like a lot of his business ventures are actually the result of crony capitalism.
- cyanydeez 4y agoAlso, neither were built by musk.
- galdosdi 4y agoEven the challenges in scaling a platform like Twitter to a global scale are gone. They were novel and exciting 10 years ago; today, using cloud services, it's a comp sci 301 assignment.