One year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billion

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One year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billion
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Is this the wikipedia-argument back at him? The whole twitter post history could fit on a single hard drive, so why are people paying for it?

That argument is unfair anyway, cause what fits on a hard drive gets bigger every year.

No it’s completely fair because the value of information deflates as we gain better ability to store it! /s

And there's endless examples of a small well ordered thing being far more expensive than essentially the same thing less ordered in bigger volume - a room full of carbon dioxide, a bag of coal, a diamond...