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by fzingle 1256 days ago
Maybe they are considering that we shouldn't build and optimize our society solely for the purposes of maximizing revenue.

Would it be better to live in a world where Twitter (for example) existed because it is a useful thing and not because it might make lots of money?

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Doesn't it lose a lot of money and its usefulness is directly correlated with its current massive usage.
It ran about break even until very recently.