Elon Musk buys Twitter

[UnknDoomer]

Neither do I, but it's hilarious watching the Twitter employees crying

Here’s to hoping that Twitter is destroyed!

Destroy Twitter for good

 

 

[Gibbon]

2 minutes ago, mike9199 said:

I think this is not just happening, it is clearly beneficial to someone, the only question is to whom exactly?

Probably the local economy.

 

Employees = Income = Spending = Local Economy = Happy Local Economy.

 

It is pretty clear how many folks here aren't even out of high school yet.

[sincity2100]

Here's my 2 cents about the whole thing..

 

I don't care.. This whole thing is made for headlines.. Elon Musk get attention, and Nothing will change.. Twitter is going to remain a Cesspool.. might just Kill it and be done with it..

[sincity2100]

15 hours ago, UnknDoomer said:

 

 

 

Oh Yeah, this guy wants Attention at all costs..

[Bridgeburner56]

17 hours ago, Gibbon said:

Probably the local economy.

 

Employees = Income = Spending = Local Economy = Happy Local Economy.

 

It is pretty clear how many folks here aren't even out of high school yet.

If you think trickle down economics works I've got some bad news for ya bud

[Gibbon]

1 hour ago, Bridgeburner56 said:

If you think trickle down economics works I've got some bad news for ya bud

This is totally different.

 

Ok, so let's do an experiment.  Have mass-unemployment in a single area and then tell me the local economy doesn't suffer.  Keep your ideology separate from reality.

[Biodegradable]

Arguments about communism, transphobia and now economics. How many more derails will this thread endure?!?! :^P

[mrthejoshmon]

All debates on Doomworld should be settled here with a monitored livestreamed deathmatch.

Edited April 29, 2022 by mrthejoshmon

[Taw Tu'lki]

I think that Elon Musk shut up mouthes of radical feminists that flooded twitter. And it will be clear. 

[Nine Inch Heels]

On 4/28/2022 at 7:45 AM, mike9199 said:

I think this is not just happening, it is clearly beneficial to someone, the only question is to whom exactly?

 

On 4/28/2022 at 7:48 AM, Gibbon said:

Probably the local economy.

 

Employees = Income = Spending = Local Economy = Happy Local Economy.

 

It is pretty clear how many folks here aren't even out of high school yet.

Let's get something straight here, people like Musk buy things that benefit themselves first and foremost. It's always been that way no matter how you slice it, and if anything beneficial for anybody else actually comes as part and parcel of the package, then that's at most a welcome side-effect. This idea that was espoused by someone else here, which is that Musk is merely buying it out of boredom, so that he can have some "puzzle" to solve is so woefully naive that it boggles the mind. People don't get as rich as for example Musk seems to be when their ambitions are primarily motivated by a general sense of benevolence or mere curiosity - people get rich, because when they make purchases like that, they do that after assessing that there's some manner of profit to be made for them in the vast majority of cases (if not all cases) - and that's profit of any sort, be it directly or indirectly, be it monetary gain, or be it stuff like "PR"...

 

Look no further than Bezos, who - instead of spending money on installing air conditioning in his warehouses (unless he's forced by local legislation) - opted to hire people to do first aid when someone goes belly-up in the amazon box mines, because it was cheaper for him - a simple cost-benefit analysis carried out by someone who couldn't possibly care any less about the local economy, or the well-being of his employees. Also, while I'm at it, people like Musk or Bezos benefit way more from a fucked up local economy than from a healthy one, because if they actually create jobs, then a fucked up local economy gives them way more leverage with regards to what they need to pay their wage-slaves in order to actually have any applicants knocking at their doors in the first place. People like Bezos fucking love monopsonies, and those are always easiest to come by where employment opportunities are at a premium. Why do you think are iphones being made in china for the equivalent of a 4-5$ hourly wage, and why do kids in China knit carpets for even less than that until their fingers are ruined around the age of 10 to 12 years, after which many of them need to compensate for the lack of income by way of prostitution until they're 14, which is when they are allowed to glue shoes together for Nike again? Does that happen because financial heavy-weights like Musk care about your neighbourhood's economy? Thus far, there is absolutely no indication whatsoever that Musk aims to create plenty more jobs to go along with his purchase, and even if he happens to come up with something that requires additional manpower (a pipe dream when you're looking algorithms that do the "checking" instead of real people who would need to be paid, by the way), it would still be highly unlikely that the additional jobs created would make any noticeable difference on the local economy, because they're not going to hire like 10,000 - 20,000 people - it would be damn surprising if even just a hundred new jobs were created (which is still a drop in the ocean, considering the size of the workforce as a whole, even when it's just smaller cities instead of "behemoths" like for example New York)...

Do you think your thinly veiled insult changes anything about the fact that people like Musk or Bezos "create jobs" only if it is in their own interest to do so in the first place? If anything, I would suggest you attend high school for another 1 - 2 years so that you can have another chance at learning some critical thinking - when that's done, then we can have another discussion about whose ideology may or may not survive contact with reality.

5 hours ago, Gibbon said:

Ok, so let's do an experiment.  Have mass-unemployment in a single area and then tell me the local economy doesn't suffer.  Keep your ideology separate from reality.

Oh, one more thing. If you have mass employment in a single area exclusively (<- very important qualifier!) due to a lack of employment opportunities, then the local economy is fucked already, because that's why people aren't getting their hands on any jobs in the first place. There are not enough businesses that create jobs, because it's scorched earth from an economic perspective to begin with. If it were as easy as "hire more people, so you get to sell more product" there would never be a shortage of jobs anywhere around the world, because every entrepreneur under the sun would hire people like crazy in order to raise their own profits and the profits of everybody else. Why, then, don't entrepreneurs just do that? And you want to talk smack about people who are (supposedly) still in high school, or whose ideology is presumably the problem here? Have you taken a look in the mirror lately?

Edited April 29, 2022 by Nine Inch Heels

[Gibbon]

Don't you just love it when people say you're being insulting and then insult you.

 

Why yes Gibbon, I love it!

 

Welcome to Doomworld.

[Nine Inch Heels]

4 minutes ago, Gibbon said:

Don't you just love it when people say you're being insulting and then insult you.

 

Why yes Gibbon, I love it!

 

Welcome to Doomworld.

Aww.... Our precious little snowflake is playing the victim-card instead of addressing any of the arguments that have been made. How cute. I hear there's copium available on 4chan, so try your luck where your drivel and your victim-complex have a chance to impress.

Edited April 29, 2022 by Nine Inch Heels

[Gibbon]

Just now, Nine Inch Heels said:

Aww.... Our precious little snowflake is playing the victim-card instead of addressing any of the arguments that have been made. How cute. I hear there's copium available on 4chan, so try your luck where your drivel and your victim-complex has a chance to impress.

 

Far from it actually..  apparently you don't seem to understand sarcasm.  So maybe it is you that needs some extra education.

 

*twat*