At this point, does the state of Twitter even matter? With a $44B dollar influx soon, what shareholder would care about the state of the social medium or Dorsey's bitcoin shenanigans? (Honest question)
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#12https://archive.ph/7ugqn
That is an outstanding animated gif! People should click the link even if they have no intention of reading the article. Nice job Scorpion Dagger!
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Glad you are a mind reader. You should put that power to work for good
Money is power, is it not? One doesn't need to be a mind reader to note that. My point is that there may be an effective limit to material wealth, but there's no limit to power, and thus there's reason to continue accumulating wealth even when your material desires are all satisfied. The OP said "Jack Dorsey has nothing to gain". I think that's false. I'm not attempting to read Dorsey's mind. I'm just saying there is…
Winning never gets old. Even when it IS about the money, it’s first and foremost about winning.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Glad you are a mind reader. You should put that power to work for good
Money is power, is it not? One doesn't need to be a mind reader to note that. My point is that there may be an effective limit to material wealth, but there's no limit to power, and thus there's reason to continue accumulating wealth even when your material desires are all satisfied. The OP said "Jack Dorsey has nothing to gain". I think that's false. I'm not attempting to read Dorsey's mind. I'm just saying there is…
You are assuming that the accumulation of money and power is the primary motivation, opposed to a byproduct or simply a means to an end.
>I'm not attempting to read Dorsey's mind. I'm just saying there is in fact something to gain by accumulating more money.
It seems like you were doing a lot more than making a theoretical point.
"It's never enough for them."
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Money is power, is it not? One doesn't need to be a mind reader to note that. My point is that there may be an effective limit to material wealth, but there's no limit to power, and thus there's reason to continue accumulating wealth even when your material desires are all satisfied. The OP said "Jack Dorsey has nothing to gain". I think that's false. I'm not attempting to read Dorsey's mind. I'm just saying there is…
You are assuming that the accumulation of money and power is the primary motivation, opposed to a byproduct or simply a means to an end. >I'm not attempting to read Dorsey's mind. I'm just saying there is in fact something to gain by accumulating more money. It seems like you were doing a lot more than making a theoretical point. "It's never enough for them."
I'm not convinced you can accrue a billion dollars as a byproduct. At some point you are giving yourself raises on purpose.
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Money is power, is it not? One doesn't need to be a mind reader to note that. My point is that there may be an effective limit to material wealth, but there's no limit to power, and thus there's reason to continue accumulating wealth even when your material desires are all satisfied. The OP said "Jack Dorsey has nothing to gain". I think that's false. I'm not attempting to read Dorsey's mind. I'm just saying there is…
You are assuming that the accumulation of money and power is the primary motivation, opposed to a byproduct or simply a means to an end. >I'm not attempting to read Dorsey's mind. I'm just saying there is in fact something to gain by accumulating more money. It seems like you were doing a lot more than making a theoretical point. "It's never enough for them."
The OP said "Dorsey has nothing to gain" and "he seems to be quite mindful", yet for some reason you criticize me for purportedly being a mind reader, but not the OP. Why is that?
> You are assuming that the accumulation of money and power is the primary motivation, opposed to a byproduct or simply a means to an end.
Power can be a means to an end. It can be a means to many ends. I never assumed it wasn't. I was disputing "Dorsey has nothing to gain".
> It seems like you were doing a lot more than making a theoretical point.
> "It's never enough for them."
Well, it's an observation about the ultra-wealthy, as a group. They never seem to give up trying to accumulate more money, despite already having vastly more than they would rationally need.
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> The man is as rich as anyone would like to be It's never enough for them. Money is power. At a certain level of wealth you run out of things to buy, but you never run out of people to buy.
Glad you are a mind reader. You should put that power to work for good
There's a pretty robust tradition of trying to decipher the motivations of the wealthy and powerful going back to, idk, ecclesiastes at least. I don't think they're claiming to have a novel or unique insight into anyone's mind, just an exposure to the patterns of behavior of similarly motivated people over time.
It remains a useful point despite your attempt at dismissing it as inherently preposterous. Dorsey pursues certain things likely to make him richer, yet most people do not see how he could derive more value from being richer. Resolving this tension will probably give insight into what he's likely to do and how it may affect us, a power he truly does have.
It's neither foolish, nor useless, nor hubris for them to offer that guess, unlike your comment which was all three.
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Glad you are a mind reader. You should put that power to work for good
There's a pretty robust tradition of trying to decipher the motivations of the wealthy and powerful going back to, idk, ecclesiastes at least. I don't think they're claiming to have a novel or unique insight into anyone's mind, just an exposure to the patterns of behavior of similarly motivated people over time. It remains a useful point despite your attempt at dismissing it as inherently preposterous. Dorsey pursues…
I think that reducing every action the rich take to a quest for more money and power is the foolish and simple minded heuristic.
It isn't even an analysis as much as a mantra.
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#20Is this a journalism?
No. It's Bloomberg. Imagine the type of talent they are attracting. They can't pay a competitive salary, the b players they have on staff think that scoops come from their boss, and in approximately 10 years time they are going to be replaced by AI that will do a better job writing click bait articles for their brainwashed audience. Why would anyone with half a brain be working there?