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And zuckerberg's money went to tax payers in terms of taxes and salary and tax on salary and spending from salary, so a profitable deal overall.
by blackoil 10y ago
And zuckerberg's money went to tax payers in terms of taxes and salary and tax on salary and spending from salary, so a profitable deal overall.
- type0 10y ago> so a profitable deal overall. I don't think that facebook is good for openness of the web and/or society as a whole, the amount of power without oversight that this Zuck has is simply scary. Edit: here's some food for thought- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook
- rbanffy 10y agoWeren't you talking about investing public money?
- type0 10y agoThey got subsidies, which is which is far from beeing an investment. And FB isn't very eager to pay taxes either.
- type0 10y agoAlso, I'm all for it when paypayers money go to new struggling but promising startups, fb is not one of them. I can't really see why they would need governmental financial help other that to support corrupt politicians.
- rbanffy 10y agoIs the question about what returns on the investment or about who the government invests in?
- crpatino 10y agoWith that kind of logic, you could build a perpetual motion machine in no time.
- ComteDeLaFere 10y agoNot really. The third slide is titled "A Ghost Data Center" because so few people are needed to run it.