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And there was no incentive to listen to them. Like they weren’t making any money. They were just thought of suggesting ways in which you would stop making money. And all the money wasn’t ignoring the wise, you know, the money wasn’t annoying, and don’t it don’t miss those people. Because it because like, because look what’s happening, because look, you can just call the car and it just turns up to the curb, don’t listen, you know, it’s sort of it’s like, and that’s your, your souls visions where you’re sort VC point, I think, is really what makes your souls efficient. So people are told to go and pitch to VCs with, like, a great vision. So you know, Starbucks goes in and says, We want everybody in, you know, we want to be the Coca Cola for coffee, you know, and then you have Uber, which is we want to be the Starbucks of mobility, you know, and it’s pitched on that infinite scale idea. And people do not think about the cultural implications of endless scale. And when we talk about So from my perspective, all of this comes from looking at what is journalistic values platforms, and what’s nonjournalistic is just lack of differentiation, about messaging, and about sources and distribution and effects of delivery and responsibility and all those things. And their response to this. So this is what I do think these companies come comfortable because they are smart, and they are plentiful, and they’ve been shown all this for a long time, and they’ve made a decision that goes doesn’t matter. What you are saying does not matter, because it isn’t something that like culturally, so it’s just not in their culture, it is not in their interests to say how else I can we think through what it means to launch free basics. You know, when Nick killed power set, his anti-free basics Yeah, the campaign in India, everything he said about it if they took it seriously and have not dismissed it would have stopped them do what they did and MIMO every single aspect of it. It was like; you should not be deciding the connectivity of a population into understanding the cultural you don’t belong to, you know, you should not be offering these things without forethought and guardrails and some democratic process around it. You should not be offering these things unless you’ve got sufficient people in the market to deal with the fallout.
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