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Mark Zuckerberg isn't really a person. He represents a class of extremely misguided super smart rich people who convince themselves they are doing good by gett

by Sven7 11y ago

Mark Zuckerberg isn't really a person. He represents a class of extremely misguided super smart rich people who convince themselves they are doing good by getting themselves richer.

astazangasta 11y ago
"If you are rich, you must, by definition, be doing good since you are providing a valued service that people are paying for." This is the logic; find it in this very thread.
- tjr 11y ago
  I think there are methods of becoming rich that pretty clearly do not involve doing "good", but even so, since Facebook users are not paying for the service, the most we could conclude here is that Facebook is doing good for advertisers. That may well be true.
- saiya-jin 11y ago
  one example out of many - services of arms smuggling make one quite rich if surviving long enough, not sure about doing good though
- ionised 11y ago
  Rupert Murdoch is rich. Muamar Gadaffi was rich. I don't think that logic holds any weight.
marincounty 11y ago
Do you really think Zuckerberg is super smart? I've alway pegged him as a passive, aggressive regular guy. A guy who stole an idea for a website. An idea, I don't think he would have every stumbled upon--then, or now. We will never know? If not for capitalizing on someone else's idea, at the right time, I feel he would just be an average, probally single, programmer--that is if he finished school. I wil give him this, he is business ruthless, or has the foresight to know he doesn't know everything? He hires the right people. When I heard about his desire to make Internet.org a non-profit, I immediately thought it's not going to be in incorporated in California, where you can easily lose control of even a well meaning, selfless nonprofit, if your board members turn on you. I thought I got this guy Wrong. I then though he will go to Deleware--where you can run a nonprofit like a private business. That's the mark I was expecting. I now find out that's Internet.org is not a non-profit? Or, I got it wrong? Either way internet.org seems like Mark got his wish, and poor people have a dumbed down/spoon fed version of the Internet. An Internet where mark can have complete control? Some of you call that brilliant? I don't. Poor people should have the same advantages we all had in terms of Internet access? Anyway, he never struck me as a thinker, just driven? I think that rediculious movie about Zuckerburg/Facebook did a lot to further his super smart persona? Would a super smart guy create a social networking site? I actually think his averageness; has worked to his benefit. He thought FB would be cool. It might even get him laid? Why--because an average guy know's what what an average guy likes? Personally, I think, if Zukerburg is so intelligent, he will do some damage control on his seemingly selfish/controlling business plans, and dictatorship rules? I know there are certain parts of the country where people seem to be dropping out of FB? I kind of see that trend going on in the Bay Area? Around here, a big cheesy profile pic, and a 1000 friends is not cool anymore. It's just pathetic? Kinda like disco?
- jamesjyu 11y ago
  Wow, it really sounds like you have a personal vendetta against Mark, who you've probably never met. It's easy to get misled by only reading second or third hand accounts. Trust me: he is smart and an intense thinker. Facebook didn't get to where it is today by chance.
  - Frondo 11y ago
    It also didn't get where it is today just because Mark sat there thinking hard and intense. There's a lot of people involved in something as big as Facebook, and a lot of lucky breaks going their way.
  - forgottenpass 11y ago
    Trust me Why? You have the rose colored glasses of getting paid by someone. I don't doubt that your first hand interactions have told you plenty about who he chooses to socially signal that he is. But that can be even more misleading than 2nd and 3rd hand accounts.
- tim333 11y ago
  There seems some evidence he's smart https://www.quora.com/How-smart-is-Mark-Zuckerberg-academically-Is-he-as-smart-as-Bill-Gates https://www.quora.com/How-smart-is-Mark-Zuckerberg-academica...

by Sven7 11y ago

Mark Zuckerberg isn't really a person. He represents a class of extremely misguided super smart rich people who convince themselves they are doing good by getting themselves richer.

astazangasta 11y ago

"If you are rich, you must, by definition, be doing good since you are providing a valued service that people are paying for." This is the logic; find it in this very thread.

tjr 11y ago
I think there are methods of becoming rich that pretty clearly do not involve doing "good", but even so, since Facebook users are not paying for the service, the most we could conclude here is that Facebook is doing good for advertisers. That may well be true.
saiya-jin 11y ago
one example out of many - services of arms smuggling make one quite rich if surviving long enough, not sure about doing good though
ionised 11y ago
Rupert Murdoch is rich. Muamar Gadaffi was rich. I don't think that logic holds any weight.

marincounty 11y ago

Do you really think Zuckerberg is super smart? I've alway pegged him as a passive, aggressive regular guy. A guy who stole an idea for a website. An idea, I don't think he would have every stumbled upon--then, or now. We will never know? If not for capitalizing on someone else's idea, at the right time, I feel he would just be an average, probally single, programmer--that is if he finished school. I wil give him this, he is business ruthless, or has the foresight to know he doesn't know everything? He hires the right people. When I heard about his desire to make Internet.org a non-profit, I immediately thought it's not going to be in incorporated in California, where you can easily lose control of even a well meaning, selfless nonprofit, if your board members turn on you. I thought I got this guy Wrong. I then though he will go to Deleware--where you can run a nonprofit like a private business. That's the mark I was expecting. I now find out that's Internet.org is not a non-profit? Or, I got it wrong? Either way internet.org seems like Mark got his wish, and poor people have a dumbed down/spoon fed version of the Internet. An Internet where mark can have complete control? Some of you call that brilliant? I don't. Poor people should have the same advantages we all had in terms of Internet access? Anyway, he never struck me as a thinker, just driven? I think that rediculious movie about Zuckerburg/Facebook did a lot to further his super smart persona? Would a super smart guy create a social networking site? I actually think his averageness; has worked to his benefit. He thought FB would be cool. It might even get him laid? Why--because an average guy know's what what an average guy likes? Personally, I think, if Zukerburg is so intelligent, he will do some damage control on his seemingly selfish/controlling business plans, and dictatorship rules? I know there are certain parts of the country where people seem to be dropping out of FB? I kind of see that trend going on in the Bay Area? Around here, a big cheesy profile pic, and a 1000 friends is not cool anymore. It's just pathetic? Kinda like disco?

jamesjyu 11y ago
Wow, it really sounds like you have a personal vendetta against Mark, who you've probably never met. It's easy to get misled by only reading second or third hand accounts. Trust me: he is smart and an intense thinker. Facebook didn't get to where it is today by chance.
- Frondo 11y ago
  It also didn't get where it is today just because Mark sat there thinking hard and intense. There's a lot of people involved in something as big as Facebook, and a lot of lucky breaks going their way.
- forgottenpass 11y ago
  Trust me Why? You have the rose colored glasses of getting paid by someone. I don't doubt that your first hand interactions have told you plenty about who he chooses to socially signal that he is. But that can be even more misleading than 2nd and 3rd hand accounts.
tim333 11y ago
There seems some evidence he's smart https://www.quora.com/How-smart-is-Mark-Zuckerberg-academically-Is-he-as-smart-as-Bill-Gates https://www.quora.com/How-smart-is-Mark-Zuckerberg-academica...