No, I know
I guess the core problem is just the absolute state of our elites and I don't know how to fix this
How do you get back to Cincinnatus after your system produces a Commodus?
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Replying to @eigenrobot
You have to grapple with the idea that some of the ideas that made you rich also produced our current moment. And I see absolutely no sign of that grappling.
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Replying to @matthew_d_green
Are you suggesting that Instacart hollowed out the CDC
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Replying to @eigenrobot @matthew_d_green
This is an interesting thread to pull tbh. Drawing an arrow from Instacart to the CDC is obviously contrived. My best attempt would be to say that gig-economy startups have fostered public antipathy towards regulatory oversight, which made current regimes more palatable.
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Idk, maybe also throw in an argument about how the gig-economy has also hung its hat on individualism and that being bad in a situation where collective action is necessary to protect people. Still feels contrived as fuck. Extremely low certainty of the value of these tweets.
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Replying to @jkachmar @eigenrobot
I think the biggest single thread in this is the way social media and the crash of the press has taken an already bad situation and made it terrible. The gig economy is less a cause of badness than an abuse of it.
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And when you get right down to it, these things all define the biggest financial successes of Big Tech: Disrupting advertising Social media Exploitative labor models Where is the “good” stuff that counterweights all this?
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Replying to @matthew_d_green @eigenrobot
I really dislike Uber, but I do think they genuinely disrupted (for lack of a better word) a taxicab market that was legitimately not good for consumers in many cities, and provided such a market in areas where none existed before.
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Replying to @jkachmar @eigenrobot
Yes but they also did so by burning vast amounts of VC cash unsustainably to eliminate competition. I’m not sure any of it’s sustainable but the damage will be.
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that's not the correct comparison if they had no work they would be collecting more from the government in benefits
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