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Do people on HN still believe Elon isn't destroying Twitter?

This 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.

I 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.

A 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

Time to go shopping for a bulldozer then. Thanks for doing the hard work on that one.

If 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.

>Let this sink in

$44B down the drain... down the plug hole... down the gurgler... down the 'S' bend... flushed

Twitter down the disposal... down the insinkerator...

I'm willing to give it the old college try. For, uh, science.

Step on those scales over there please.

The question in my mind is will he use his own money to keep Twitter afloat. He drove the advertisers away and threatened to sue them even though Twitter isn't profitable.

You are wrong. People are 90% ignorant. They don't follow anyone, anywhere, maybe a small minority, until their plaything is at hand.

The question now is whether he is doing it intentionally or he is just that incompetent/out of touch.

People don’t light $44B on fire for the lols

The difference between incompetence and malice can be super hard to determine.

They are also not mutually exclusive

True, but then they might cancel out!

If you're lucky

I was on the fence until this ElonJet & banned reporting on Elon thing. What an absolute hypocrite.

Fauci didn't do it for you?

Unsworth?

Roth?

Tripp?

I'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?

It's a form of idol worship.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/big-tech-f...

It'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.

Hadn't heard about them. This Twitter saga isn't something I'd base my whole personality on.

That that is his goal seems more and more likely by the day.

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