Bash the economic models, not the person who came up with them.

I don’t know enough of the theory to dispute anything you said about the flawed assumptions. But I’m sure Nash’s theories are solid under the presumed assumptions, which are for sure overly simplified and possibly deeply flawed. But then blame the people adopting these models without checking if the assumptions are valid.

It’s like models that holds only for spherical cows in a vacuum and people want to apply it to giraffes on earth.

I would have been completely with you if you bashed the economic models, you gave a reasonable explanation on why they’re flawed, if you wouldn’t have multiple times mentioned the psychological issues of the mathematician who came up with it.

Reddit is among the most popular social media worldwide, with an estimated 55.79 million daily active users and 1.660 billion monthly active users in 2023.

Yeah, a drop in the bucket. Even considering lurkers and bots.

But that’s okay. The goal is to have a nice, active enough community outside of reddit. Reddit can keep on existing. I would argue not having everyone move here, or somewhere else, is good to keep the interaction healthy. Let alone the software and servers that couldn’t handle it.

Exactly. Billionairs look out for themselves first and foremost. They try to maximise their profit.

Musk wants to push more people to pay for verified. The reddit board (not only Spez) wants people to download their app to make it seem like their growing right before their IPO, while simultaneously forcing more ad views. Probably downloading the app also lets them track a lot of extra data about you as well.

No conspiracy needed to explain all this.