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Also relevant: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/16/i-knew-one-day-id-have-to-watch-powerful-men-burn-the-world-down-i-just-didnt-expect-them-t

Also relevant: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/16/i-knew-one-day-id-have-to-watch-powerful-men-burn-the-world-down-i-just-didnt-expect-them-to-be-such-losers https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/16/i-knew.... It's incredible, really. I thought the main point of being a billionaire was independence. "Fuck-you money" taken to the extreme. You've "won" society, now do whatever you want. Make things better for humanity by funding novel research. Or sit in a cave and build the best orgasm machine ever. Whatever. I think Larry and Sergey have the right idea, but in very different ways: Larry has completely disappeared to go live on a private island, and Sergey gets to be as weird as he wants and still pops in to work on whatever tech project he finds interesting. I don't think having billionaires who live completely separately is a good thing for society, but those responses at least make sense to me. Zuckerberg became rich and famous for being a smart guy who didn't do the bullshit that other people wanted him to. Remember "move fast and break things"? And now instead... he (and Musk, but he's probably a true believer; and a number of others, but to lesser extents) want to... kowtow and suck up to a weak, blithering idiot? Profess the value of caveman-tier "masculinity" ideology? Never mind how obviously contradictory it is to believe in both "men should be strong" and "Donald Trump is what we should want in a man" - what is the point? Why is this what he wants to do with his power and wealth?

palata 2y ago
> Zuckerberg became rich and famous for being a smart guy who didn't do the bullshit that other people wanted him to. I disagree. He became rich for being in the right place at the right time. He became famous because he became rich.
jaybrendansmith 2y ago
It's really showing his deep lack of character; Aaron Sorkin got him dead on. He's always done the most convenient, values-free act possible from the get-go.

palata 2y ago

> Zuckerberg became rich and famous for being a smart guy who didn't do the bullshit that other people wanted him to. I disagree. He became rich for being in the right place at the right time. He became famous because he became rich.

jaybrendansmith 2y ago

It's really showing his deep lack of character; Aaron Sorkin got him dead on. He's always done the most convenient, values-free act possible from the get-go.