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“Zuckerberg reportedly took action after he learned that a developer wanted to purchase one of his neighbor's homes and use the fact that Zuckerberg lived close

“Zuckerberg reportedly took action after he learned that a developer wanted to purchase one of his neighbor's homes and use the fact that Zuckerberg lived close by as a marketing tactic. ... Zuckerberg will lease the four homes he just bought back to its current residents.” Not sure how this paints Zuckerberg in a bad light. The bad guy seems to be the developer who was going to use his fame to advertise, thus exposing Zuckerberg to way less privacy than a normal person. This was Zuckerberg’s way to eke out a bit more privacy in the vein of a normal human. I mean he left the people in their homes.

MichaelMcG 6y ago
>"I mean he left the people in their homes." This sounds more akin to a discussion about Oligarchs after the collapse of the Soviet Union than a discussion about an American CEO in California. Kind of eerie, even if you didn't intend it to sound that way.
- viro 6y ago
  Not really just kind of proves the point he didn't want people selling houses near him as. " buy now to live next to the. CEO of Facebook" that sounds like a HUGE safety problem for him AND his family.
  - TomSwirly 6y ago
    Rich people have existed before today, you know, and yet they didn't do such things. > sounds like a HUGE safety problem for him AND his family. You watch too many action movies. No one's going to spend the months of background checks and negotiation and tens of millions of dollars it would take to buy a mansion next to Zuckerthing's just to kidnap him or something. The threat to rich people are from career criminals, not other rich people.
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  - georgeplusplus 6y ago
    The realtor being a creep still doesn’t change the fact that the guy who says you have no privacy, wanted more privacy.
- greggturkington 6y ago
  Yeah Zuckerberg is now Boris Berezovsky amirite
  - MichaelMcG 6y ago
    Maybe I should have said he sounded like a feudal lord, it doesn't matter to me. I wasn't diving into the circumstances, just the phrasing of that last sentence I quoted.
    - greggturkington 6y ago
      So the transfer of state-owned assets to oligarchs is the significantly comparable as buying four houses and renting them to their owners? Do you even know what happened after the fall of the Soviet Union?
      - permo-w 6y ago
        I mean this non-rhetorically: are you joking?
        greggturkington 6y ago
        > I mean this non-rhetorically [sic]: are you joking? You think that I'm joking about Zuckerberg being a poor comparison to those specific oligarchs? I mean this unrhetorically, what part of my comment could you possibly misinterpret so horribly?
      - MichaelMcG 6y ago
        Man, you're reading too far into my comment. I was just saying the sentence reads like: A wealthy individual (WI) coming to his neighbors. WI: "I'm worried your homes might be bought by individuals that affect my privacy, I know you don't intend to move, so let's make a deal that you can still live here and pay rent." Neighbors: "Ok" Random YC Comment: "(WI) left them in their homes, rather than reneging on his deal and casting them out of their familial homes to the street." ---- A Feudal Lord (FL) dies and his heir receives the fiefdom. FL: "You are now my serfs and I've decided you may continue to live here and pay me a percentage of the crop yield, I am a generous lord." Serf: "OK, m'lord" Random YC Comment: "(FL) left the peasants in their huts like the generous lord he is." --- A state industry has been privatized and is now owned by an Oligarch, to include the housing provided to the workers. Oligarch: "Party land now my land, you may continue to live and work here to provide me profit, I am a generous businessman." Worker: "ХОРОШО" Random YC Comment: "The Oligarch left the workers in their housing, as long as it still provided him a profit."
denlekke 6y ago
none of the former neighbors live there anymore, the leasing arrangement was to provide time for them to find new places to move to
908B64B197 6y ago
> after he learned that a developer wanted to purchase one of his neighbor's homes and use the fact that Zuckerberg lived close by as a marketing tactic That's just... creepy from the developer. Also how is living next to Mark Zuckerberg a perk? Unless you want to build an illegally zoned Startup Incubator focused on IoT and the main acquirer you're targeting happens to live next door and notices your product everyday...
serf 6y ago
finding the homes of the rich and famous is absolutely trivial. >I mean he left the people in their homes. how good of him . /s Generally if someone does something you don't like you ask them to stop; if they don't you sue them , or if conditions allow you ask law enforcement to step in. >This was Zuckerberg’s way to eke out a bit more privacy in the vein of a normal human. on what planet do normal humans buy all the surrounding real estate in some of the most expensive places to live to 'eke out a bit more privacy'? This is quite clearly a show of finance and power that few 'normal human' people would ever be able to demonstrate themselves. Good on him, i'm not upset about it, he SHOULD spend his money how he wants -- i'm upset that people try to paint the behavior as normal and run-of-the-mill. There is nothing normal/every-man/run-of-the-mill about Mark Zuckerberg's existence.

MichaelMcG 6y ago

>"I mean he left the people in their homes." This sounds more akin to a discussion about Oligarchs after the collapse of the Soviet Union than a discussion about an American CEO in California. Kind of eerie, even if you didn't intend it to sound that way.

viro 6y ago
Not really just kind of proves the point he didn't want people selling houses near him as. " buy now to live next to the. CEO of Facebook" that sounds like a HUGE safety problem for him AND his family.
- TomSwirly 6y ago
  Rich people have existed before today, you know, and yet they didn't do such things. > sounds like a HUGE safety problem for him AND his family. You watch too many action movies. No one's going to spend the months of background checks and negotiation and tens of millions of dollars it would take to buy a mansion next to Zuckerthing's just to kidnap him or something. The threat to rich people are from career criminals, not other rich people.
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- georgeplusplus 6y ago
  The realtor being a creep still doesn’t change the fact that the guy who says you have no privacy, wanted more privacy.
greggturkington 6y ago
Yeah Zuckerberg is now Boris Berezovsky amirite
- MichaelMcG 6y ago
  Maybe I should have said he sounded like a feudal lord, it doesn't matter to me. I wasn't diving into the circumstances, just the phrasing of that last sentence I quoted.
  - greggturkington 6y ago
    So the transfer of state-owned assets to oligarchs is the significantly comparable as buying four houses and renting them to their owners? Do you even know what happened after the fall of the Soviet Union?
    - permo-w 6y ago
      I mean this non-rhetorically: are you joking?
      - greggturkington 6y ago
        > I mean this non-rhetorically [sic]: are you joking? You think that I'm joking about Zuckerberg being a poor comparison to those specific oligarchs? I mean this unrhetorically, what part of my comment could you possibly misinterpret so horribly?
    - MichaelMcG 6y ago
      Man, you're reading too far into my comment. I was just saying the sentence reads like: A wealthy individual (WI) coming to his neighbors. WI: "I'm worried your homes might be bought by individuals that affect my privacy, I know you don't intend to move, so let's make a deal that you can still live here and pay rent." Neighbors: "Ok" Random YC Comment: "(WI) left them in their homes, rather than reneging on his deal and casting them out of their familial homes to the street." ---- A Feudal Lord (FL) dies and his heir receives the fiefdom. FL: "You are now my serfs and I've decided you may continue to live here and pay me a percentage of the crop yield, I am a generous lord." Serf: "OK, m'lord" Random YC Comment: "(FL) left the peasants in their huts like the generous lord he is." --- A state industry has been privatized and is now owned by an Oligarch, to include the housing provided to the workers. Oligarch: "Party land now my land, you may continue to live and work here to provide me profit, I am a generous businessman." Worker: "ХОРОШО" Random YC Comment: "The Oligarch left the workers in their housing, as long as it still provided him a profit."

denlekke 6y ago

none of the former neighbors live there anymore, the leasing arrangement was to provide time for them to find new places to move to

908B64B197 6y ago

> after he learned that a developer wanted to purchase one of his neighbor's homes and use the fact that Zuckerberg lived close by as a marketing tactic That's just... creepy from the developer. Also how is living next to Mark Zuckerberg a perk? Unless you want to build an illegally zoned Startup Incubator focused on IoT and the main acquirer you're targeting happens to live next door and notices your product everyday...

serf 6y ago

finding the homes of the rich and famous is absolutely trivial. >I mean he left the people in their homes. how good of him . /s Generally if someone does something you don't like you ask them to stop; if they don't you sue them , or if conditions allow you ask law enforcement to step in. >This was Zuckerberg’s way to eke out a bit more privacy in the vein of a normal human. on what planet do normal humans buy all the surrounding real estate in some of the most expensive places to live to 'eke out a bit more privacy'? This is quite clearly a show of finance and power that few 'normal human' people would ever be able to demonstrate themselves. Good on him, i'm not upset about it, he SHOULD spend his money how he wants -- i'm upset that people try to paint the behavior as normal and run-of-the-mill. There is nothing normal/every-man/run-of-the-mill about Mark Zuckerberg's existence.