{"id":21843,"date":"2026-03-19T17:27:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21843"},"modified":"2026-03-19T17:27:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:27:41","slug":"meta-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21843","title":{"rendered":"Meta Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Facebook changed its name to Meta and spent billions on the Metaverse. This was a failure. If government had done this, it would be lambasted and held up as proof that government is incompetent and can&#8217;t do things. Yet, when the private sector does this, we let it go. We shouldn&#8217;t have this double standard. In both cases, if some money isn&#8217;t wasted on&nbsp;failed&nbsp;ideas, then we aren&#8217;t trying enough new ideas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Meta Thoughts\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lQGDnM2fSwI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook changed its name to Meta and spent billions on the Metaverse. This was a failure. If government had done this, it would be lambasted and held up as proof that government is incompetent and can&#8217;t do things. Yet, when the private sector does this, we let it go. We shouldn&#8217;t have this double standard. In both cases, if some money isn&#8217;t wasted on failed ideas, then we aren&#8217;t trying enough new ideas. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lQGDnM2fSwI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[217,165,1469,1912],"class_list":["post-21843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-government-intervention","tag-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21844,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21843\/revisions\/21844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}