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Do people on HN still believe Elon isn't destroying Twitter?
by wnevets 4y ago
Do people on HN still believe Elon isn't destroying Twitter?
- niij 4y agoI was on the fence until this ElonJet & banned reporting on Elon thing. What an absolute hypocrite.
- jacquesm 4y agoFauci didn't do it for you? Unsworth? Roth? Tripp?
- rsynnott 4y agoI'm always fascinated by this. At this point, every couple of days Musk does something comically awful, and there are posts saying "that's it, I used to like him, but this is too much". Like, _how was all the other stuff_ not sufficient evidence that there was a problem?
- jacquesm 4y agoIt's a form of idol worship. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/big-tech-founders-gates-neumann-jobs/671519/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/big-tech-f...
- lawn 4y agoIt's cognitive dissonance, and everyone is susceptible to this. We're super good at rationalizing things when we hear conflicting information, so we can bear a lot of shit until the breaking point.
- niij 4y agoHadn't heard about them. This Twitter saga isn't something I'd base my whole personality on.
- TillE 4y agoThis is the first time I've really truly felt that wow, he's actually going to kill Twitter. When he forces people with an audience to move elsewhere, that audience is gradually going to follow.
- jacquesm 4y agoI wonder if you had $44B in 1 dollar notes and you fed them into an incinerator with a shovel if you could keep up with the value destruction here.
- walrus01 4y agoA US banknote weighs approximately one gram, so if you could fit 3 kg tightly bundled on one shovel load that would be $3000 per shovel load. Let's say you work 24 hours a day and can shovel 8000 loads into the fire a day. That's maybe 24 million a day So the answer is likely that they are destroying the $44bn more rapidly than you could shovel it
- jacquesm 4y agoTime to go shopping for a bulldozer then. Thanks for doing the hard work on that one.
- anigbrowl 4y agoI'm willing to give it the old college try. For, uh, science.
- jacquesm 4y agoStep on those scales over there please.
- lern_too_spel 4y agoIf Musk is in a Brewster's Millions scenario, he's doing fantastically well. The rules stipulate that he must not spend his money foolishly, but after spending his money on a leveraged buyout of a company that could reasonably have been worth a particular amount at time of offer, driving down the value of the company with foolish decisions is within the rules.
- aschearer 4y agoThat that is his goal seems more and more likely by the day.
- paxys 4y agoThe question now is whether he is doing it intentionally or he is just that incompetent/out of touch.
- jacquesm 4y agoThe difference between incompetence and malice can be super hard to determine.
- voxelghost 4y agoThey are also not mutually exclusive
- jacquesm 4y agoTrue, but then they might cancel out!
- voxelghost 4y agoIf you're lucky
- mhoad 4y agoPeople don’t light $44B on fire for the lols