Damn, it's not even working yet. Used to be a day companies actually got things working, worked out the kinks, and built users, before monetizing it.

True, but this is a reality that goes back to the wheel, and permeates through the entire history of man on this planet.

Who maintains the robots? Who builds them? Who designs them?

I'm not saying it's shagnri la, I'm saying many other jobs are created to run and maintain the thing.

The problem is advances in technology replace low skill labor, and replaces it with high skill labor and education hasn't been keeping up. As a matter of fact, education is priced so far out of reach for so many people, that it creates a class system where only those who can afford it, gain the skills to get the new jobs.

It;s obviously more complex than that, but that's how I've seen it over the last 30 years.

5 years ago Cryto was supposed to collapse banking. 20 years ago the internet was supposed to kill small businesses. 40 years ago robotics was supposed to take the place of human workers.

Everytime new tech emerges people predict the that the sky is falling.

For every thing that becomes obsolete due to advances in technology, more jobs, businesses and opportunities are created based on that technology.

*Looks like, walks like, and quacks like a duck. *

China: "Yeah, but it's not a duck."

Well that sucks.

I agree that the internet should be a free place...as in access to the internet should be made freely available to everyone. However, Twitter is not the internet. It's not a utility, or public trust. It's a website. A privately owned website.

So, I agree, making Twitter a paid service doesn't mean others can't use the internet, any more than charging for the Wall Street Journal stifles other people's speech.

But it certainly puts Elon in a position of embracing his own hypocrisy. He cannot do both..make Twitter free and open for everyone and everything with limited moderation, and also make a profit.

Reddit figured that a few years ago, and they have transitioned nicely.

Edited: More to add.

I would try $1 or $2 a month to see if it eliminates the bots, spam, trolls, racists, bullies, and other asshole categories. Having to pay would also serve as some identity verification, unless they allow payments with anonymous gift cards.

If you have to use a real credit or debit card, that would clean it up almost immediately.

Of course, that would push out users based on economics, which is the opposite of supporting free speech and expression for all.

So then you have a free tier so that the poors stay "down" in the same tier as the bots, spam, racists, bullies and other assholes, and only the people who can afford it (and have access to banking) are allowed to socialize with others who can afford the higher level.

This lays the groundwork for a dystopian movie script where the poors are forced to live at ground level breathing the toxic air, and the wealthy live in high rises above it all breathing the cleaner air. The poors can only follow the paid memebers. If they want to communicate with paid members, the paid members have to allow it. Paid members can also block all the poors so that the poors can't even see that they have an account.

Of course I'm just pontificating...let's see how it all plays out.

Neither do I. If they can get it down to a normal set of glasses, I may wear them. But, I don't want to talk to all my devices. I mean it looks cool if you're on a star ship, but just every day computing? Nah.