As more and more articles and interviews come out about spez and how he’s inspired by how Musk running Twitter, I genuinely can’t believe he’s this stupid. Anyone else think that we could see a repeat of what happened with Ellen Pao when all the gate subreddits were banned? All of these quotes from Spez are coming out, and the hate over the changes is directed at him, and blamed on him almost more than on all the admins, or the board. “Fuck spez” has become the slogan for opposing the changes at this point.
I won’t be surprised if the board removes him at the 11th hour, and reduces the api costs to a level that the biggest apps (Apollo, RIF) will be able to keep operating, but may not allow for new apps to compete.
Anyone else think we could see it blow over like this?
I agree with your take mostly, although I’ll add that usually ‘beneath the surface’ goings on are well understood by everyone else, despite what dumbshit the capitalists are saying.
For example the motivation for back to office is clearly about real estate values in expensive cities at its root, but those making the decision are naming every other cause under the sun. In this example, they aren’t playing ‘4d chess’, they’re criminally out of touch.
They also use this stereotype to make people think they are capable of innovation, when really capitalism has never truly innovated anything because new ways to create scarcity. Even now they are trying to think of ways to outlaw normal people from owning solar panels in many places because free energy from the sun SUCKS for capitalism.
Furthermore I can’t think of any ‘4d chess’ examples by rich people myself. Do you have any?
All sorts of nasty tricks to push people out of housing and buy up the homes cheaply, would be my first thought. They’ve made an art form out of stealing (or technically-not-stealing) things out from other people. But yeah, I don’t have any particular examples ready right now, either.
oh I see what you mean - basically new ways to be villainous. Yeah I agree whenever they manage something impressive, its impressively evil.