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Perhaps, although Zuckerberg never built Facebook in an attempt to help the public. Even the most hagiographic recounting still acknowledges that Facebook is a
by hardwaregeek 6y ago
Perhaps, although Zuckerberg never built Facebook in an attempt to help the public. Even the most hagiographic recounting still acknowledges that Facebook is a profit seeking endeavor. What's so interesting about Moses is the paradox of how someone so arrogant, so elitist indeed, can have done so much for the public.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoFor some of the public. But, for example, he deliberately made the overpasses on one of his expressways too low for buses to use, so that only people with cars could get to the beaches. This excluded the poor, and the black were mostly poor. So "done so much for the public" is... complicated. His elitism and exclusionism was literally cast in concrete.
- hardwaregeek 6y agoAgreed. I'm not claiming Moses was necessarily altruistic. But he did something for the public, while I'm not sure Zuckerberg, besides the odd charity work, has anything close to that
- notional 6y agoI haven't heard of him before but his wiki has this line in it which was extremely similar to comments I've heard about another recent person in the news. Complicated for sure. "While bragging that he served in his many public jobs without compensation, he lived like a king and similarly enriched those individuals in public and private life who aided him."