I suspect the person you replied to was being subtly sarcastic. edit: but honestly, I'm not sure.

I thought I was laying on the sarcasm pretty thick. But I guess it’s harder and harder to tell these days!

sgc 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I took as beyond sarcasm, just a simple explanation of how they manage to keep going written in the first person. From my perspective it is incredible anybody could misunderstand.

	▲	stavros 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's how I took it too, and didn't realize someone might read it otherwise, but I can see how it could be misunderstood if someone isn't paying as much attention.

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quantified 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There is no tone of voice in writing. This is part of the problem with written social media. Some writers will say "only an idiot would believe what I wrote", showing themselves to be adversarial in their communications. I don't think that's you in this case.

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lo_zamoyski 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It was very thick, IMO.

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jongjong 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's hard for me to tell because I've seen this multiple times in my career (in tech). People wasting investors' money getting funding over and over while those actually building stuff get suppressed.

I swear there are some people who control a lot of money who are just having fun ruining people's lives for laughs.

There are people who spend years working for some company, betting their career on it but it turns out the whole thing was some kind of inside joke.

My view is that some companies are basically somebody's toy and the employees are part of the entertainment like a personal reality TV show for some rich person so they can play-act as a hotshot entrepreneur.

Probably it serves as some kind of inflation control mechanism. If you have a lot of money and want to spend it without driving inflation, you have to find things with extreme diminishing returns and you have to invest in people who value such things.

	▲	busyant 13 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Thanks for the reply. The only thing I can add (regarding the motivations of people willing to invest with a fraudster) is that many people invest with the belief that they'll make money because they are just part of the scam and they assume there's a greater fool somewhere down the line. But that's probably obvious.
	▲	cindyllm 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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