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And a $100,000/year MBA with a basic grasp of reality and the willingness to listen to people smarter than him could run Twitter better than Elon Musk.

In backpacking when we're trying to lighten our packs, we have a saying, "don't cut ounces when you can cut pounds." Yet the highest-paid people involved in a company always look at the lowest paid workers to see where they can cut costs, because after all, they can't possibly pay themselves less.



How has Musk owning twitter changed it in a bad way? And cutting 80% of your ounces in backpacking makes a difference. If cutting 80% of your ounces changes so little about your backpacking trip that you don't notice a decline in enjoyment you didn't need that 80%.


> How has Musk owning twitter changed it in a bad way?

Troll elsewhere.

> And cutting 80% of your ounces in backpacking makes a difference. If cutting 80% of your ounces changes so little about your backpacking trip that you don't notice a decline in enjoyment you didn't need that 80%.

Exactly!

Now look at who owns 80% of the wealth in the US.


>And a $100,000/year MBA with a basic grasp of reality and the willingness to listen to people smarter than him could run Twitter better than Elon Musk.

This is certainly true, but that $100k MBA doesn't have enough money to buy the company, so he can't run it as a private company like Elon does. A Twitter owned by someone far less narcissistic (or publicly owned) could hire the MBA to run it, but that won't happen because that's not how companies choose their CEOs: the $100k MBA doesn't have the social connections and resume to get the job in the first place.


It's almost as if we need to make changes to the system so that the best and brightest bubble to the top instead of whatever idiot inherits their dad's slave-operated emerald mine money.




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