Employing too many people in jobs that aren't productive is bad. Given the allegedly high skill of many of these people, it's much better for them to be reallocated to more productive, more valuable roles.
Twitter was a failing company. Cursing them with too many employees isn't good for anyone.
First off: it seems like the many employees at Twitter did have a positive impact on the company, considering the many issues it has been facing since this was reduced. I know that it was a common refrain that Twitter was completely over-staffed, but how do we actually know?
Second: the issues regarding worker rights go much further than simply laying off many employees.
- Laying employees off while promising severance, then never paying that
- Making employees fly in on extremely short notice just because the owner wants them to
- Reneging on previous contractual agreements (e.g. remote work) just to get them to quit
- Forcing the remaining employees to work way longer than is necessary, even setting up beds in the offices
People deserve stability and normal treatment. A billionaire manchild should not be able to make their lives this bad just because they want to!
Not everything reduces to monetary value. And I'm guessing the person with almost the most monetary value on the planet has a better position than most to perceive that. I honestly think he's doing this as what someone on Substack will eventually call anti-enshittification; buy enshittified platforms at personal expense and remediate them to serve what they directly perceive as the public good rather than the bottom line. Of course, publicly stating that you're planning to lose money on an investment will cause heads and credit ratings to explode, so it'll likely always be ambiguous when it occurs. Or he could just be an impulsive idiot that consistently makes poor business decisions. I don't know.
Musk apparently didn't grasp the basic nature of what he was buying.
Twitter is/was primarily an advertising platform. Advertising is not "free speech" but rather the opposite of it.
Advertising may use technology but technology is not the real focus. It is really a social and psychological and political/public persuasion operation.
Catering to misfits and outcasts and extremists is an unbelievably bad way to promote advertising. Very few businesses want to be associated with Nazis --- even those run by ideological fascists.
Bottom line: Musk is particularly ill suited for the business he bought into. He has no one to blame but himself.
“musk’s” is a bit misleading. that was the point of the purchase.
the value of twix is not monetary, nor is it universal. but it is massive. for those that actually own it, the paper loss is unimportant compared to the people gain.
> who on earth would want elon musk as a figurehead?
who might benefit from installing a clown at the top of their surveillance apparatus? having him spew whatever comes to mind really grabs the attention away from those that hold the purse strings.
It is a massive fuckup. There is no 4-dimensional chess happening. Elon thought he could flip Twitter at less cost than litigation and a judgement against him. That was an impulsive decision with zero planning.
Yet the site is so much better than it used to be for the average user. The algorithm doesn’t feel hostile to rational thought anymore.
And he’s got millions of people paying to use the site now. But I guess maybe that isn’t making up for ad revenue losses? The article is paywalled so I don’t know how they reached their conclusions.
People have been reporting CP on Twitter for years and have shown evidence that old Twitter ignored. From what I’ve seen, new Twitter seems to be doing a better job of scrubbing that stuff.
What Nazi bs are you referring to? Only thing I’ve seen is a couple silly Russian fanboys calling Ukraine a Nazi country.
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Twitter was a failing company. Cursing them with too many employees isn't good for anyone.
Second: the issues regarding worker rights go much further than simply laying off many employees.
- Laying employees off while promising severance, then never paying that
- Making employees fly in on extremely short notice just because the owner wants them to
- Reneging on previous contractual agreements (e.g. remote work) just to get them to quit
- Forcing the remaining employees to work way longer than is necessary, even setting up beds in the offices
People deserve stability and normal treatment. A billionaire manchild should not be able to make their lives this bad just because they want to!
Twitter is/was primarily an advertising platform. Advertising is not "free speech" but rather the opposite of it.
Advertising may use technology but technology is not the real focus. It is really a social and psychological and political/public persuasion operation.
Catering to misfits and outcasts and extremists is an unbelievably bad way to promote advertising. Very few businesses want to be associated with Nazis --- even those run by ideological fascists.
Bottom line: Musk is particularly ill suited for the business he bought into. He has no one to blame but himself.
the value of twix is not monetary, nor is it universal. but it is massive. for those that actually own it, the paper loss is unimportant compared to the people gain.
> who on earth would want elon musk as a figurehead?
who might benefit from installing a clown at the top of their surveillance apparatus? having him spew whatever comes to mind really grabs the attention away from those that hold the purse strings.
And he’s got millions of people paying to use the site now. But I guess maybe that isn’t making up for ad revenue losses? The article is paywalled so I don’t know how they reached their conclusions.
Really? When people are reporting actually seeing CP and more Nazi BS?
What Nazi bs are you referring to? Only thing I’ve seen is a couple silly Russian fanboys calling Ukraine a Nazi country.