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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by edmundsauto on Friday October 28, 2022 @07:00PM (#33379061)
Those companies are solving problems with logistics and engineering.

Twitter is fundamentally trying to solve a people problem, which is much fuzzier. Every impression I've had from "public Elon" is that he is absolutely wretched at people-problems-at-scale. I'm also not sure there is any human ever who has been able to solve people problems at Twitter's scale.

Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by permo-w on Saturday October 29, 2022 @06:49AM (#33382853)
John Maynard Keynes
Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by edmundsauto on Saturday October 29, 2022 @12:37PM (#33385637)
Could you elaborate? He wrote a book that many considered important, but how specifically did he solve people problems? To me it sounds like he understood emergent behaviors in economics, but didn’t those economicists also believe in the rational actor? That is not an accurate assumption about humanity.
Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by permo-w on Sunday October 30, 2022 @03:21AM (#33392009)
Keynes’ solutions to human problems on a macro scale lifted millions upon millions of people out of poverty in the post-war era

keynesianism eventually failed because corporations and large capital holders will not act rationally towards the whole when they have interests that benefit themselves. so I suppose you’re right. but that doesn’t change the fact that for a good 30 years his ideas and solutions made life better for a huge number of people