I think that Twitter’s pre-Musk operation was bad for humanity. That’s mainly because of how you can like a tweet, but not dislike it, so it tends to promote people playing to their own crowd and ignoring anyone who disagrees: everyone stays in their own echo chamber. And that’s before all the stuff coming out in the Twitter files. So, if Elon is willing to blow $44B of his own dough burning it to the ground, I’m good with that. But the banks that are on the loans for a big chunk of the purchase price strike me as having made a very, very bad decision.
Moving Fast and Breaking Things
I think that Twitter’s pre-Musk operation was bad for humanity. That’s mainly because of how you can like a tweet, but not dislike it, so it tends to promote people playing to their own crowd and ignoring anyone who disagrees: everyone stays in their own echo chamber. And that’s before all the stuff coming out in the Twitter files. So, if Elon is willing to blow $44B of his own dough burning it to the ground, I’m good with that. But the banks that are on the loans for a big chunk of the purchase price strike me as having made a very, very bad decision.