Twitter Before and After Elon Musk
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I always saw pre-Musk Twitter as an adult daycare. But now that you point this out, it turns out it was more of a goddamn human petting zoo.
So many jobs are just there to funnel money towards women and diversity hires. There are many videos you can watch of these people doing their "jobs" which at most consists of sending a few emails.
I briefly dated a girl who worked for government and 90% of her job was copying numbers from one spreadsheet to another.
She knew it could be automated and she knew her job should not exist, but she had been happily taking her near 6 figure paycheck for nearly 4 years when I met her.
a smart employee would automate the job and turn the position into "They guy who maintains the automation".
You don't even need to be a programmer, could be done with autohotkey in a couple of hours by a complete retard.
Calling the average (pre-Musk) Twatter employee human is quite a stretch.
That's the creepiest thing. They are kind of a corporate pet. I don't think they were any one specific person's pets. It was as if they were the corporation's pets. They existed basically to look and sound nice, while doing nothing of particular value, for the benefit of the corporations. It's not like the board of directors was actively observing them and getting praise. They were pets of a master that isn't real. It was like the act of being a pet was being fetishized.
My only explanation is that there are some number of predators hunting these people at different levels and in different ways that wanted this kind of thing to continue.