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I'm all for the Twitter schadenfreude. Frankly, it couldn't happen to a more deserving person. But we should bear two things in mind: 1. A low-volume competito
by jmyeet 2y ago
I'm all for the Twitter schadenfreude. Frankly, it couldn't happen to a more deserving person. But we should bear two things in mind:
1. A low-volume competitor will always seem better because the bad actors haven't moved in yet. Growth engineering will kick in and do the same awful thing you see on any newcomer that approaches or surpasses whatever it aims to replace. Put another way: the quality will only ever go down; and
2. We're going to stay in this cycle as long as we back venture-backed companies that will be incentivized to do all the growth engineering mentioned above.
The most successful and enduring and longest-lasting structure for user-generated content is Wikipedia ie the Wikimedia Foundation. The platform needs to be owned to the community or we are doomed to repeat the rise-and-fall cycles we have now.
- 4ntiq 2y ago> I'm all for the Twitter schadenfreude. Frankly, it couldn't happen to a more deserving person. This is a very uncharitable and hatingly-blinded take.
- twixfel 2y agoSo? It's OK to hate some people, for the right reasons, that is.
- rsynnott 2y agoOh, no, are people being _uncharitable_ to the billionaire? Like, there are limits. There’s only so much assuming of good intentions that it is reasonable to do.
- 4ntiq 2y agoI can't fathom how salty one can be over someone's wealth to have this level of hate for them but if it makes the pain/inequality hurt less then so be it I suppose.
- Dylan16807 2y agoSaying he deserves it is stupendously salty and hateful?
- 4ntiq 2y agoAbsolutely. And explicitly calling out wealthy people for being wealthy just reeks of jealousy.
- ryandrake 2y agoThe original OP didn’t say anything about wealth, just that “it couldn't happen to a more deserving person.” It’s possible he wished failure on Elon for reasons other than his wealth (there are so many).
- rsynnott 2y agoNah, I've no particular issue with him being rich; there are plenty of fairly inoffensive billionaires. I have issues with him being a bloody arsehole. I have noticed, however, that some people on here seem very keen to extend the benefit of the doubt to Musk and other rich people more than they would otherwise do.