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Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by serf on Sunday November 06, 2022 @03:48PM (#33496935)
> paying smart people and expecting them to work hard - why isn't literally everyone else doing the same?

is that a real question that expects an answer , or one of those 'SV-Wisdom from-on-high' sentences?

Here's an easy practical answer that will fit 95% of the responses : I don't have the money to hire a lot of experts to execute my ideas, nor do I have the familial or business connections in order to facilitate the loans needed.

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Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by fsdjkflsjfsoij on Sunday November 06, 2022 @04:04PM (#33497122)
> I don't have the money to hire a lot of experts to execute my ideas, nor do I have the familial or business connections in order to facilitate the loans needed.

There are lots of people that have those things and are still not a tiny fraction as successful. Most people could be given all of those things and they'd quickly waste them all in a spectacular fashion. Often the people that are the loudest on this issue don't even have their own absolutely trivial finances in order.

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