All of the revelations about government directed shadow banning on Twitter of conservatives and other opponents of various government policies is very interesting and may help to convince some few remaining idiots who haven\u2019t already seen what\u2019s perfectly obvious to most people of normal intelligence.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t see that it will accomplish any practical result.<\/p>\n
But what would be really useful is if Musk decides that providing a legitimate commercial platform for non-Leftists is a profitable business model.\u00a0 Of course, this is a question that hasn\u2019t been answered.\u00a0 Now, Jeff Bezos was eventually able to make Amazon very profitable.\u00a0 But he had the advantage that he was able for many years to provide his customers with a product line that avoided all state sales tax.\u00a0 And Google was able to capitalize on government contracts to fund their capture of the worldwide advertising market.<\/p>\n
But what\u2019s left for Musk to capture?\u00a0 Twitter is a political gossip column and little else.\u00a0 If kept in its current form it\u2019s really not good for much.\u00a0 So, what was Musk thinking when he spent $44 billion for it?<\/p>\n
For that kind of investment, he must be looking at something enormous.\u00a0 My guess is that he\u2019s looking at some kind of integrated on-line service platform.\u00a0 The question is how he plans to steal a march on his competitors.\u00a0 So, if you are eying the revenues that Apple, Google, Facebook, PayPal and Amazon have, how do you steal away some of them?<\/p>\n
His first step was easy.\u00a0 Fire the worthless two thirds of your employees that spend their time in yoga and meditation rooms and demand results from the remaining people.\u00a0 Right there he\u2019s practically made the company profitable.\u00a0 But after that he needs to find the future of digital enterprise.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s not going to be something idiotic like Zuckerberg\u2019s ridiculous metaverse.\u00a0 Thinking the world is going to be revolutionized by everybody walking around wearing VR headsets is close to moronic.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to be something that uses artificial intelligence for something more than advertising.\u00a0 Currently Silicon Valley has just been shilling for the woke powers that be who are looking to eliminate the great unwashed (meaning us).<\/p>\n
A way to utilize artificial intelligence in a profitable and useful way is to provide those who are currently being ostracized and silenced with a platform to organize and accomplish useful things.\u00a0 And not just political organizing.\u00a0 In fact, the cultural and commercial aspects are even more important and desperately needed.<\/p>\n
In fact, what Musk could make the most money on is streaming entertainment.\u00a0 There is such a drought of enjoyable content that he could get his whole $44 Billion back on that alone.\u00a0 When was the last time there was anything actually funny put out on television or in the movies?\u00a0 Other than Dave Chapelle everyone is so afraid of offending someone by saying something actually funny that they\u2019re reduced to just insulting straight white men, the only allowable target for abuse.<\/p>\n
And there are many other forbidden enterprises that Musk and his partners can get involved with.\u00a0 Being one of the original creators of PayPal makes it certain that he could add financial functions to his platform. \u00a0It could include payment processing, crowd funding, and even normal banking services.\u00a0 Grateful customers would be more than happy to throw their other on-line business his way.\u00a0 He just has to make it simple to get started.<\/p>\n
He could steal a page from Amazon and get into self-publishing.\u00a0 He could build a better smart phone.\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard he\u2019s even considering starting his own news network.\u00a0 There are all kinds of opportunities.\u00a0 He could even become a site host for all the folks who\u2019ve been de-platformed.<\/p>\n
And these are just the things that occur to a regular guy like me.\u00a0 Surely super-genius Elon Musk can produce ideas that are a thousand times better and more lucrative.\u00a0 So come on, Elon get cracking, we\u2019re getting tired of waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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