Ben Thompson
speaker
42,103 appearances
120 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 21 Aug
Ben Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I've been making this point repeatedly, enterprises pay for productivity.
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And consumers don't.
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Consumers don't want to be productive.
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They want to enjoy themselves and have fun.
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Like w watching reels is not productive.
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But it is enjoyable.
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It's a great business.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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And it's a very good business.
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Right.
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Now, of course, there's this idea of we're going to have assistants that help us do things and whatever it might be.
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But at the end of the day, a lot of stuff, the point is the friction.
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Like, what do people do for fun?
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Like, like actually I saw I think I I saw a real.
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I'm gonna like great badly interpret a comedy bit, which is rich people, the way to identify an activity that rich people enjoy doing is it's a reinterpretation of what poor people already do.
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So like for example.
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Let's go hiking, walk very long distances, and like tire ourselves out and admire the guess what you could walk as if we could all the time.
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That's right.
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Right.
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