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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Aug 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Prometheus 2.1

      8/ I'd argue that software from 1990 to 2020 is the story of capital demands getting smaller and smaller. To launch a startup back then required $2M in servers, Oracle license fees, etc. Today? $4 to buy some ramen. Capital is stunningly cheap.https://twitter.com/wraithburn/status/1296839522379014144 …

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      Prometheus 2.1 @wraithburn
      Replying to @JASutherlandBks @MorlockP
      Mostly I find the position here interesting both for what happened with Software development in the 90s re: Consulting and how that parallels things here. But also because there's an odd thing in here I have trouble describing for what is expected within what people do.
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Aug 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Bobby Riggs

      9/ Uber has a "take rate" of ~ 20%, meaning that's what they pocket off of each ride. If VC was subsidizing it, that'd be negative, no? I think Uber is spending VC dollars on R&D ... which is the ideal use of VC $, no? https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-uber-ipo-lyft-fare-increase-20190511-story.html …https://twitter.com/BobbyRiggsTankd/status/1296839891519705088 …

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs added,

      Bobby Riggs @BobbyRiggsTankd
      Replying to @MorlockP @wraithburn
      Uber only exists as long as VC $$$ keeps flowing It will fail when the $$ dries up
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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Aug 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted James

      10/https://twitter.com/ztnra/status/1296841513570205696 …

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs added,

      James @ztnra
      Replying to @MorlockP @wraithburn
      It’s a publicly traded company. It’s not VC money anymore as traditionally defined.
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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Aug 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Prometheus 2.1

      11/ This seems to be a variant of the Obama "you didn't build that". Because Uber exists in the economy somehow they're ripping the rest of us off. Passengers pay fees. Drivers get paid. Drivers buy gas. Gas taxes pay for road maintenance.https://twitter.com/wraithburn/status/1296841392489103360 …

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      Prometheus 2.1 @wraithburn
      Replying to @wraithburn @JASutherlandBks @MorlockP
      Perhaps because in part, these companies don't operate in a vacuum. They are in a social web, with a complex grouping of connections for what it means to be a member of that web. Uber/Lyft use most roads "free" unlike tolls which they pass to the rider.
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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Aug 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Prometheus 2.1

      12/ "expectations and assumptions" This sounds like an attempt to shoe horn in a bunch of YOUR expectations. Enumerate / explain, please?https://twitter.com/wraithburn/status/1296841893217742849 …

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      Prometheus 2.1 @wraithburn
      Replying to @wraithburn @JASutherlandBks @MorlockP
      But it isn't free because they are paying taxes to operate as a corporate citizen within a specific environment. Being a corporate citizen within that environment has a host of expectations and assumptions beyond just paying taxes.
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    6. Prometheus 2.1‏ @wraithburn 21 Aug 2020
      Replying to @MorlockP

      Perhaps so! But I'm trying to abstract to a broader mental model of what normies think of a business. @JASutherlandBks defends Uber/Lyft by saying they aren't taxi companies. But what do people think of them as? Taxi companies.

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    7. Prometheus 2.1‏ @wraithburn 21 Aug 2020
      Replying to @wraithburn @MorlockP @JASutherlandBks

      Tate runs a camgirl business. What is he? A pimp. He may not call himself a pimp, but that's what he is. There is never any environment where a company can operate in an abstraction vacuum of expectation, whatever those may be.

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    8. J.A. Sutherland SciFi Books‏ @JASutherlandBks 21 Aug 2020
      Replying to @wraithburn @MorlockP

      By this logic, the company that hosts menus and lets restaurants take online orders is, itself, a restaurant.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    9. Prometheus 2.1‏ @wraithburn 21 Aug 2020
      Replying to @JASutherlandBks @MorlockP

      No, because that is not what people expect from a hosting site. There not hard and fast rules in social things like that so the logic does not apply.

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    10. Prometheus 2.1‏ @wraithburn 21 Aug 2020
      Replying to @wraithburn @JASutherlandBks @MorlockP

      But anyway, that is why I called it socialism in action originally. You've got social expectations that are not met and it conflicts instead of living in Capitalism land where nobody would mind.

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 21 Aug 2020
      Replying to @wraithburn @JASutherlandBks

      I don't see how these two paragraphs connect. Social expectations are not met (you assert). ...and ... WHAT does that have to do with socialism?

      9:55 AM - 21 Aug 2020
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        2. Prometheus 2.1‏ @wraithburn 21 Aug 2020
          Replying to @MorlockP @JASutherlandBks

          I was in a meeting at the time I wrote the tweet, it is half baked. I bounced from there to how this pattern (leave aside whether it is true) of sliding past the costs is the pattern socialism ends up with in practice.

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        3. Prometheus 2.1‏ @wraithburn 21 Aug 2020
          Replying to @wraithburn @MorlockP @JASutherlandBks

          So we've got capitalists defending the companies for capitalism, and socialists decrying them for not being socialist, when it is the pattern capitalists decry socialism for using and socialists praise.

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