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The Zuckerberg for president talk was before the Cambridge Analytica thing blew up. HN has been critical of FB for a very long time, but it was only then that Z
by 07d046 8y ago
The Zuckerberg for president talk was before the Cambridge Analytica thing blew up. HN has been critical of FB for a very long time, but it was only then that Zuckerberg's public image really took a beating.
Bezos has a much lower public profile. Apparently he's a libertarian. It's easy to portray him as everything that is wrong with American economic life — he's an ultra-rich man running an extremely successful company, while paying countless workers barely enough to live — so it's hard to see him as a viable candidate.
- rdtsc 8y ago> Bezos has a much lower public profile. I think that's what I was going for. A lower public profile is better than a public profile with lots of mixed things (say good stuff like charities and bad ones like the CA scandal). And maybe people are also more practical, they are ordering tons of stuff from Amazon, it gets delivered to their door, the see the log on the boxes as they are opening them etc. So it is associated with success, something tangible, something that "works well" more or less. > he's an ultra-rich man running an extremely Was just thinking between the ultrarich (assuming billionaires running the country is now the new norm), which ones would have a better chance if they tried.