gotta enjoy this before it gets pulled.

This was a good episode. An important perspective on the topic from someone whose been there. A little repetitive at times, I could definitely go back and figure out which main points I heard at least three times if I’m going to remember them, but definitely an improvement over the first couple episodes and a cut above my default content pipelines.

Two issues are at the head of these issues. Shareholder capitalism is one. But once that we can’t dismiss is that these companies are too large. They buy up their competitors. They end up colluding with others in the industry to keep costs, both financial and personal, in their favor. It’s is high time to call this what it is: monopolies keeping competition and innovation to a minimum, while profiting to the max. We need to break up some of these companies.

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14 minutes into this one I can’t go on. You just say too many things that don’t make sense, and attack from the wrong vectors. I’ll try the next one; I hope you’ll stick to real arguments, not tangents and worse.

I propose you change the name of your podcast. If you truly think it’s ”Better offline” then what are you doing here? And try to be informative, even have an opinion, but don’t let your hate for Zuk/Meta/others take over. While they do a lot of stupid/bad things, and need change, see if you can come up with better ways. Maybe somebody will listen.

I enjoyed some of your pods but here you don’t make a lot of sense. You complain that some people say stupid things about the Metaverse, therefore the Metaverse is stupid. You say it’s not what was promised. Sure, it will take time. Look at the first car/plane/www. You say it has and will have no value because games already have elements of it. Like cars have no value because the wheel was already invented. And because lots of stupid ventures try to cash in, everybody doing it is stupid.

I am also angry at this and I think you are right. I feel like you may have missed a bit on 2 things: 1. Their ”excuse” is ”shareholder value”. Who are the biggest shareholders? Them and theirs. Others too (individuals, pensions) which gives them the ”excusability”. 2. The CEOs point to the boards of directors that choose compensation packages, with all sort of reasons. I think they are all in it. One CEO may be on the board of another company, etc. Also directors are accordingly compensated.