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We are building a ship in a bottle, sitting on Elon Musk’s desk to entertain him when he’s bored and to help him make money

This was an incredible image from Matthew Remski in this Conspirituality episode, paraphrasing something Matt Christman said in this discussion:

In the old days if you wanted to sail somewhere, you had to get together with a group of people with a diverse skill set and you would build a boat. You worked together, you argued over the details, you collected materials and tools, you got a lot of splinters in your hands. But when you do all of that work online, or for what passes for work, on Facebook or Twitter, it’s like you’re building a ship in a bottle at a very small scale. It’s a ship that goes nowhere ultimately.

Even if it feels intricate and fascinating, it’s a ship in a bottle sitting on the desk of Elon Musk where he just looks at it. Half bored, half interested. Sometimes he give it a shake just to fuck things up. We deserve more than this.

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