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Zuckerberg caught on hot mic promoting fake investment figures to support Trump

62 points by mdhb 1y ago

java-man 1y ago
Repulsive.
dotcoma 1y ago
Zuckerberg lying? Don’t tell me…
SilverElfin 1y ago
What does Zuck want? I don’t mean this in a rude way but what are his motivations? He’s already rich and powerful. He’s already achieved success in business. If he doesn’t compete in AI or whatever, the world will still progress and achieve what it needs to. So what does he want out of it? To be even richer? Or does he think he is doing some kind of good? Or is it simply that he wants to feel relevant and part of whatever is happening in the world? I wonder why he doesn’t try to solve some problem others are ignoring.
- anthem2025 1y ago
  Fourth comma. These people have a pathological need to hoard wealth.
- theothertimcook 1y ago
  The same reason all of them compulsively toil despite not needing to. The denial of death, they can’t have physical immortality so they build legacies and monuments and etc. There’s a few books on it, the worm at the core, the denial of death, they don’t specifically speak to the foibles of billionaires but it’s a logical extension.
- igor47 1y ago
  I think his desires here are socially motivated. The people he's around operate a certain way and they all mirror each other. This is why I really hated the backlash against virtue signaling -- at least we had a shared definition of virtue! The current clique in power seems to prefer vice signaling; you get status in proportion to how much sketchy shit you get away with. This trend is really leading us in a bad direction
  - dzhiurgis 1y ago
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- legitster 1y ago
  > If he doesn’t compete in AI or whatever, the world will still progress and achieve what it needs to. I mean, kinda. There's bit of a market efficiency problem for human progress. If everybody assumes someone else will push the ball forward, that means nobody will. As much as you believe technology is part of progress, you have to expect really idiosyncratic people are going to be the ones taking the reins. As much as we cringe at Zuck and his choices, he probably looks around his peers and sees himself as saving the rest of us from even worse like David Ellison.
- MichaelRazum 1y ago
  What would you want in his position?
- deleted 1y ago
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cjbenedikt 1y ago
In any truly legal system that would be called invitation to defraud.
burnt-resistor 1y ago
They're spending crap tons of money without having even a rough idea of how it will be monetized, simply because "everyone else is also spending money". FOMO with a side of simping to fascism. B U B B L E.
treetalker 1y ago
Lotsa hot-mikin' lately
rsynnott 1y ago
This is, interestingly, the same number that the EU, which has no power to make or direct private or even public investment, gave, in the ‘trade deal’. Perhaps it is simply the standard obvious bullshit number for making minihands feel warm and fuzzy.

62 points by mdhb 1y ago

java-man 1y ago

Repulsive.

dotcoma 1y ago

Zuckerberg lying? Don’t tell me…

SilverElfin 1y ago

What does Zuck want? I don’t mean this in a rude way but what are his motivations? He’s already rich and powerful. He’s already achieved success in business. If he doesn’t compete in AI or whatever, the world will still progress and achieve what it needs to. So what does he want out of it? To be even richer? Or does he think he is doing some kind of good? Or is it simply that he wants to feel relevant and part of whatever is happening in the world? I wonder why he doesn’t try to solve some problem others are ignoring.

anthem2025 1y ago
Fourth comma. These people have a pathological need to hoard wealth.
theothertimcook 1y ago
The same reason all of them compulsively toil despite not needing to. The denial of death, they can’t have physical immortality so they build legacies and monuments and etc. There’s a few books on it, the worm at the core, the denial of death, they don’t specifically speak to the foibles of billionaires but it’s a logical extension.
igor47 1y ago
I think his desires here are socially motivated. The people he's around operate a certain way and they all mirror each other. This is why I really hated the backlash against virtue signaling -- at least we had a shared definition of virtue! The current clique in power seems to prefer vice signaling; you get status in proportion to how much sketchy shit you get away with. This trend is really leading us in a bad direction
- dzhiurgis 1y ago
  [flagged]
legitster 1y ago
> If he doesn’t compete in AI or whatever, the world will still progress and achieve what it needs to. I mean, kinda. There's bit of a market efficiency problem for human progress. If everybody assumes someone else will push the ball forward, that means nobody will. As much as you believe technology is part of progress, you have to expect really idiosyncratic people are going to be the ones taking the reins. As much as we cringe at Zuck and his choices, he probably looks around his peers and sees himself as saving the rest of us from even worse like David Ellison.
MichaelRazum 1y ago
What would you want in his position?
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cjbenedikt 1y ago

In any truly legal system that would be called invitation to defraud.

burnt-resistor 1y ago

They're spending crap tons of money without having even a rough idea of how it will be monetized, simply because "everyone else is also spending money". FOMO with a side of simping to fascism. B U B B L E.

treetalker 1y ago

Lotsa hot-mikin' lately

rsynnott 1y ago

This is, interestingly, the same number that the EU, which has no power to make or direct private or even public investment, gave, in the ‘trade deal’. Perhaps it is simply the standard obvious bullshit number for making minihands feel warm and fuzzy.