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The book is a good read and she also testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee[0], repeating many of the claims from the book under oath. One of the
by K0nserv 1y ago
The book is a good read and she also testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee[0], repeating many of the claims from the book under oath. One of the striking things is that it's clear that Mark and several others from Facebook perjured themselves in prior hearings. I expect there will be no consequence for this.
0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3DAnORfgB8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3DAnORfgB8
- grafmax 1y agoAs long as we have this concentration of wealth in this country we are going to have this selective enforcement of laws based on class lines.
- hermitcrab 1y ago"The big thieves hang the little ones." Czech Proverb
- matusp 1y agoIt's actually Roman: Magni minores saepe fures puniunt
- hermitcrab 1y agoWhere does it come from? I Googled "Magni minores saepe fures puniunt" and mostly found pages in Czech.
- hadeson 1y ago"Magni, inquit, fures minorem puniunt" - Appeared in Pseudo-Caecilius Balbus.
- hermitcrab 1y agoI found it here: https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/caeciliusbalbus.html https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/caeciliusbalbus.html And from: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011605246 https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011605246 "The so-called Caecilius Balbus is mainly an ancient Latin translation of a Greek collection of maxims. "
- piva00 1y agoI believe it will take at least a couple of generations after a new political ideology is cemented in the USA to change anything. Market fundamentalism has been the game since the 80s with Reagan, it was building up to it but Reagan was the watershed moment when it really gripped. You see it everywhere now, here on HN especially, any deviation from the dogma of market fundamentalism is met with the usual retort about "innovation", "growth", and all the buzzwords implemented to make it seem to be the only alternative we have. Any discussion about regulation, breaking down behemoths wielding massive power, betterment of wealth distribution, workers' rights, etc. will attract that mass who are true believers of the dogma. To undo this will require a whole political ideology from the ground up in the USA where the two parties are just two sides of the same coin, I really cannot see how this can realistically change without a series of major crises, bad enough that people will rise and understand who exactly is fucking them... It's sad to realise there's much more pain to happen before it might spark real change, we are kinda bound to live in the aftermath of the erosion of society brought by "shareholder value"-hegemony.
- jfengel 1y agoWeirdly, right at the moment the US economy is tanking because of severe departures from market fundamentalism. By the people who most claim to be pro capitalism.
- piva00 1y agoThere's no departure from market fundamentalism, the belief in shareholder value being supreme is still very much the current Zeitgeist. As much as the USA's administration is jerking around with trade, the fundamental principle of what governs any corporation is still market fundamentalism: returning value to shareholders, nothing else.
- immibis 1y agoCapitalism is incompatible with free markets. Capitalism means all the wealth goes to those with the most capital, while free markets means the wealth flows freely in all directions.
- stevenwoo 1y agoCitizens United has enshrined this in law by allowing wholesale purchase of politicians via the current campaign finance system.
- losvedir 1y agoI mean, I guess the obvious question is if one person lied under oath (her) or several (all the people that her testimony implies perjured). The book sounds pretty outlandish. That's not to say that Zuck and co aren't just a whole gang of melodramatically evil and stupid people, but it a priori it seems just as probable to me that she's the one that is? I don't know much about her. Is she a reliable witness?