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Post by acdha »

PedroBatista wrote: post #73
pavlov wrote: post #11

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Apparently he’s looking to replace some of the expensive debt with new margin loans backed by his TSLA shares: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-08/musk-bank... IMO this Twitter deal has been nothing but bad news for Tesla shareholders. The CEO is completely distracted and forced to sell his shares, and the company has been dragged into stupid culture wars. Tesla brand perception has crashed among Democ…

That’s actually good news for Tesla in the long run. It’s a company that sells cars mostly to yuppies and woke buerguesie who drive the cars as a statement. Now it’s time to let this bird fly and see if it survives, for that it needs to appeal to the mass market and not just the ones who “move to Canada” every 4 years. Tesla stock like every stock is (over)valued based on the future, and at this point de-Musking Tesl…

> It’s a company that sells cars mostly to yuppies and woke buerguesie who drive the cars as a statement.

You’re bringing a lot of emotional baggage to this mischaracterization. Tesla’s buyers are affluent because they didn’t sell anything cheap but that doesn’t make them woke - the dedicated environmentalists bike or take the bus to work - and the smartest move Tesla ever did was making the first one a sports car. That got all of the “car guys” interested because it changed the thought of an EV from something bland but virtuous to a fun, premium experience. Even knowing that “woke” is how right-wingers describe anyone who isn’t, it’s really not accurate – I know more libertarians who bought them until the quality control problems started catching up with them.

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Post by sokoloff »

kgantchev wrote: post #116
sio8ohPi wrote: post #109

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That's wild. It's untaxed comp that minimizes the time employees need to spend thinking about food during the day. He's mandating employees come back to the office for long hours, but now they need to (at least) order and receive their own lunches and dinners? If he's trying to retain some sort of high-intensity hardcore ninja startup bullshit, I would think free food would be the last thing cut. Or is he planning fo…

> That's wild. It's untaxed comp... So tax evasion?

Tax avoidance at most.

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Post by yreg »

lapcat wrote: post #49
QuadmasterXLII wrote: post #29

A useful comparison for discussion:reddit has 700 employees and twitter had 7000.

Reddit has an army of unpaid moderators. Not to mention the Reddit users who upvote and downvote. Also, politicians and other important public figures don't use Reddit like they use Twitter.

Do we know how many of those 7k were content moderators? Twitter also had external moderators that are probably not counted in that number.

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Post by influx »

maxerickson wrote: post #110
influx wrote: post #107

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The point is they didn’t need any couch there. Or could have gotten something comfortable from ikea and maybe wouldn’t have had to sell their company to Elon and had all this useless shit auctioned off.

Twitter didn't sell out of desperation, the offer was way above what the company was worth. A court was on the cusp of forcing the deal through when it finally moved forward. So think of it as a $15,000 couch being liquidated.

Tell that to all my colleagues who don’t have a job anymore.

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Post by INTPenis »

kzrdude wrote: post #4

Selling off a twitter bird statue makes it look bad. What a signal that the company doesn't believe in itself anymore.

I'm not one of Elon's fans, trust me on that. But I do enjoy different perspectives to things.

And this sure seems like Elon doesn't give a f*ck about people, he's honestly trying to assemble the smallest team necessary to keep Twitter going, in whatever direction he wants it to go.

So yeah he's gotten a lot of criticism but I believe there's a different perspective here of a ruthless businessman just doing anything he wants to save his 44bn investment. Including downsizing it to the bare minimum, and then rewarding the people who stuck around and helped him through it.

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Post by abdulhaq »

mythhouse wrote: post #101
elygre wrote: post #91

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Why is “great WLB” code for “ok to coast”? What does one write for actual great WLB, without the coasting?

> What does one write for actual great WLB, without the coasting? what is 'actual great WLB' ?

Work life balance

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Post by philliphaydon »

I feel like the more we learn about Twitter the more it’s just a tiny company that tried to look like Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple.

It’s really just a trash company that had a lot of junk and a lot of people doing nothing with overly inflated salaries.

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Post by bobitronn »

SanjayMehta wrote: post #86
lapcat wrote: post #49

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Reddit has an army of unpaid moderators. Not to mention the Reddit users who upvote and downvote. Also, politicians and other important public figures don't use Reddit like they use Twitter.

Anyone know why those unpaid mods do what they do? It's like a cult.

Some people like to have control over others, and get a kick out of enforcing rules they've made. These seem to make up the bulk of Reddit's moderators.

Others do it more casually, just because they wanted to have a forum for a topic and you need to do some light-touch moderating to keep the spam out.

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Post by discreteevent »

sio8ohPi wrote: post #109
bombcar wrote: post #12

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They famously shut down the free meals.

That's wild. It's untaxed comp that minimizes the time employees need to spend thinking about food during the day. He's mandating employees come back to the office for long hours, but now they need to (at least) order and receive their own lunches and dinners? If he's trying to retain some sort of high-intensity hardcore ninja startup bullshit, I would think free food would be the last thing cut. Or is he planning fo…

> (at least) order and receive their own lunches and dinners?

"At least" would be to make some sandwiches and put them in a lunch box like millions of people do every day.

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