Toadofsky9h ago
JA Westenberg
“we’re disrupting X” means we found a cheaper way to do X that externalises all the costs onto someone who can’t afford a lawyer
Apr 1 at 10:12amTypefully
Show threadTrimTab 🇺🇦18h ago
@Daojoan
Are we talking about Musk here? Sounds like no but but maybe yes? I'm so torn, that ass wipe Elon has stolen our ability to use an important variable in equations and comparisons...
Show threadWladimir Palant17h ago

@TrimTab Yes, we are talking about Musk. Yes, we are talking about Zuckerberg. About Altman. About Bezos. About many other men (yes, it’s pretty much all men who can get away with it) whose business recipe can be summed up like this.

@Daojoan

Show threadDrey17h ago
@WPalant @TrimTab @Daojoan 💯
Show threadKevin P. Fleming15h ago
@WPalant @TrimTab @Daojoan Also Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, GrubHub/Seamless, Postmates, TaskRabbit, the list goes on and on.
Show threadGhostOnTheHalfShell14h ago

@kevin @WPalant @TrimTab @Daojoan

Which can be translated into billionaires subsidizing a company in order to reach monopoly , then they start extracting their pound of flesh

Show threadInternational House of Death Rays12h ago
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @kevin @WPalant @TrimTab @Daojoan the inevitable trajectory of capitalism. Blaming the current batch of robber barons is missing the forest for the trees
Show threadDrey17h ago
@TrimTab @Daojoan 👍
Show threadConny Nasch18h ago
@Daojoan means stay away from "X"? 🤢
Show threadDrey16h ago
@connynasch @Daojoan - Totally 100%; I agree as well. I cancelled my X account last month, had to wait the 30 day grace and Walla. Never looked back and moving forward in Mastodon.
Show threadTim Finnerty18h ago
@Daojoan
where X ::= <any business model>
Show threadAnthony17h ago
@Daojoan Usually means they’re doing something illegal and know that nobody will actually enforce the law.
Show threaddjohngo15h ago
@Daojoan Darn. For a second there, I thought you were going to disrupt X.
Show threadcognitively accessible math15h ago
@Daojoan education too
Show threadEvoScale15h ago

@Daojoan Those who control more vital infrastructure, have more accountability in aftereffects of root causes/waves.

We're not completely devoid of standard physics, and trickle-down economics, eventually, heavily favors those at most root-power.

#RootCauseAnalysis #EducationRevolution

Show threadZubair Ahmed13h ago
@Daojoan “It is a great tragedy of the digital age that we have made ‘numbers’ (profits) so important that the breadth of ‘words’ (human rights) has been left behind.”
“Economic development, if devoid of human compassion, does not unite society but tears it apart. True ‘description’ must be one that makes it easier for everyone.”
Show threaddirtside12h ago
@Daojoan just like how when they say "move fast and break things" mostly what they're breaking is laws
Show threadIsocat12h ago

@Daojoan When I was smol, we were taught that being disruptive is bad; it's antisocial and rude and deserves punishment.

That's actually still true.

Show threadArchiveScribe12h ago
@Daojoan Profits before people.
Show threadAinsley Lowbeer11h ago
@Daojoan Brilliant.
Show threadShaula Evans9h ago
@Daojoan 🔥
Show threadGrumble 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇱5h ago
@Daojoan This is pretty much MBA 101. Externalizing costs is so much more reliable than innovating new products, new processes, or undercutting competitors in an established market.
Show threadVery Human Robot3h ago
@Daojoan
Internet streaming video disrupted cable TV monopolies.
Who did they externalize costs to, that cable TV didn't impose?