Robert ReichNov 24, 2022

Here's what Elon Musk fails to understand:

Much of a corporations' value lies in their workers — their knowledge, skills, and ideas.

When he fired half of Twitter’s workforce and drove off even more, he wasn't “cutting costs.”

He was actively destroying what he bought.

Show threadCaroline WinfieldNov 24, 2022
@rbreich He also doesn’t seem to realize that we—the communities—are the draw to advertisers. We’re the product that he needs to market. If it’s a cesspool of Jenna Ellis, Tom Fitton, Nick Adams, MTG, Boebert, and millions of illiterate trumpies spewing bile, that’s unattractive to advertisers. Duh.
Show threadP Gurgel-SegrilloNov 24, 2022
@Mydoggyruss @rbreich it might be a lot worse than that 👇🏼 https://ohai.social/@juliusdelino/109395994426279568
juliusd (@[email protected])

@[email protected] I think the main thing Elon bought was people (the Twitter user base). People are the currency. People can be turned into an army, they can be induced to give money, they can be used as influence leverage. If people love you enough they will tolerate shitty products so I imagine he can degrade Twitter a lot and still retain or attract a lot of people.

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Show threadCaroline WinfieldNov 24, 2022
@GurgelSegrillo @rbreich Well. That explains why he had a fake poll re unsuspending all the hate accounts. He WANTS them back. Study after study has shown that conservative brains respond to fearmongering far more than liberal brains. So whatever crap he tries to pull will not affect liberals—we’ll laugh, ignore, reject, etc—but will affect the weak minds of the easily manipulated. He (and the GOP) KNOW how to push these uneducated fools into doing their dirty work, and obeying “authority.”
Show threadP Gurgel-Segrillo
@Mydoggyruss @rbreich 🎯 exactly! And it sounds so much like Bolsonauro in Brazil!
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