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Because he thinks Elon is the smartest smart boy ever. The whole reason Lemmy got its big boost a couple years ago is that Elon banned third party apps and Spez thought that sounded like a good idea.
That's different. Spez banned third party apps because he thought there was significant revenue loss from having users use third party apps. What money is he losing if his subs don't link to X?
He specifically cited Elon and Twitter as reasoning when shutting down the API. So now, if Elon calls up Spez and says he wants the links unbanned, I betcha Spez dances to Elon's tune.
I recognize that it's not a financial loss for him now. But it's also not really enough of a gain for him to care; all the social media CEOs are co-cronies together, so he'll probably do it.
He cited how another company works as defense for his decision in his company.
And social media companies don't meet together in secret meetings to strategize how they'll collude with each other. A lot of times, they are making independent strategic decisions that happen to align.
I used to think this. I mean if you have 3 main competitors and one of them does something controversial, like raising prices or adding subscriptions, it's a great cover so the anger isn't all on you. It doesn't take a genius to keep eyes on your industry, especially when it's usually an oligopoly
Plus, these guys have each other's numbers, they meet up at events... It's not crazy for them to exchange ideas, especially because billionaires exist to one up each other, money has no other meaning at that point
But a lot of these things hurt the companies, and they come out fast - faster than most companies can move
Then I stumbled upon McKinsey. Consulting companies that advise entire industries, governments, and most importantly investors. Theoretically they "firewall" conflicts of interest to avoid collusion, except they seem to act in coordination an awful lot
And the investors matter because they advise them where to invest, meaning ignoring their ass backwards advice has consequences
Some of their top hits - Enron, the 2008 financial crisis, the opioid crisis, using mass layoffs as a way to bump up stock price, green washing fraud, return to office, and a lot more. That section on their Wikipedia is a long read
What we know, we mostly know because it was exposed in open court because they got caught... No one knows their client list or the full scale of what they've done (though they've been implicated and fined for quite a lot of fraud, among other crimes)
It's a seemingly endless rabbit hole
Ok. Honestly at this point the length of this conversation is way out of proportion with my interest in it.
I honestly don't know how someone could be paying attention to the business world in 2024 and believe this earnestly.
Just "happen to." Total coincidence.