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The movie The Social Network might be half fictionalized, but it portrayed a way someone like Zuckerberg or Sanders could be out of touch with reality by not re
by stevenwoo 8y ago
The movie The Social Network might be half fictionalized, but it portrayed a way someone like Zuckerberg or Sanders could be out of touch with reality by not responding to normal social cues or morals, and then getting used to getting away with things.
The platform has so much volume they refuse to actually hire enough people to monitor it, they've adapted to this level of profitability and won't change without being forced to (it's the same issue with Youtube, if it can't be automated, the platform would have to change) - it's like how in the USA and even the UK farmers with significant manual labour requirements won't raise wages, they'll try to get migrant farm workers to do it.
- reaperducer 8y agoout of touch with reality by not responding to normal social cues or morals, and then getting used to getting away with things. I like to call this Michael Jackson Syndrome. People get rich and/or famous enough and surround themselves with enough sycophants who keep telling them how great they are and they start doing things that normal people wouldn't do. Then it turns into a destructive feedback loop.
- rayvy 8y ago> I like to call this Michael Jackson Syndrome. Uhh I definitely wouldn't compare Michael Jackson to a Zuckerbot/Sandberg (the latter were raised in seemingly wholesome suburban families and just seem to have ego/greed issues, while the former (not being a saint himself or anything) was the victim on an abusive/oppressive childhood). Don't really want to get into this, as it'd be an unrelated tangent. TLDR: this is a horrible attempt at drawing a parallel
- stevew20 8y agoHow about "As one tends toward absolute power, they also tend towards absolute corruption". I think that is a more accurate analogy.