Is it that meta is anti-democracy or is it just that Mark Zuckerberg is kind of an idiot? The feeling I get from the book is more towards the latter.

Speaking personally, the moment I knew that Zuckerberg knew nothing about politics was circa 2010, when he announced his plan to join forces with Chris Christie to "fix Newark schools". I don't care if you support team red or team blue, but it was obvious to anyone who knew politics at that time that Christie was a con artist. Why waste any amount of time and money on this project destined to fail? If Zuck had any insight and had a goal to do an actual thing and see it work, he would not have. He spent $100 million on that.

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EasyMark 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

He's not an idiot, he just doesn't think the law applies to him because he's one of the richest people in the world.

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doganugurlu 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not trying to defend him but this isn’t a fair characterization of his intellect since he was 15 years younger and tech industry was very interested in doing good back then.

	▲	asveikau 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I am of similar age to him and was in the tech industry at the time. It struck me at the time as a collosally dumb move and proof that he wasn't a smart guy. That is literally the point of my comment. There are a number of possible interpretations. One is that he was incapable of researching how stupid he was being in that moment. Another is that he didn't care about that and he did it only to improve his image. Few of the interpretations I can think of have him looking great.

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jen20 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Is it that meta is anti-democracy or is it just that Mark Zuckerberg is kind of an idiot?

Porque no los dos?