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Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by hnlmorg on Saturday December 17, 2022 @03:19AM (#34025904)
Yeah, but I’m sure most of those businesses would have done their due diligence on WeWorks financials before moving in.

Changing offices is an expensive exercise so they wouldn’t want to risk renting space from somewhere that is likely to go under in the next year or two.

Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by mejutoco on Saturday December 17, 2022 @06:03AM (#34026771)
The whole point of wework from a customer perspective is that you don’t have to commit to long 10-year leases. So wework leases long-term and the customers short-term. If the customers dry up wework still needs to pay their commitments.
Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by hnlmorg on Saturday December 17, 2022 @06:34AM (#34026933)
Where did I say 10 year leases? I specifically said 1 to 2 years knowing exactly how WeWork operates.
Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by mejutoco on Saturday December 17, 2022 @08:26AM (#34027555)
Nowhere did you say.

My point is the dynamic I mention explains the problems of wework, and is not proved wrong by the argument you put forward, paraphrased, that "businesses have evaluated long-term risk of renting at wework so wework is not at risk"

Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by hnlmorg on Saturday December 17, 2022 @07:53PM (#34033940)
Your second attempt of paraphrasing my comment is still way off the mark.

It wasn’t a long comment, so maybe you should take it at face value rather than trying to change it to suit your argument.

Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by mejutoco on Monday December 19, 2022 @03:25AM (#34049776)
I paraphrased to try to reach a common ground, not as a kind of trick, but I understand you don't agree with the gist of the argument. We will have to agree to disagree, and that is ok.