Ask HN: Is Zuckerberg just a „one-hit-wonder"?

#1

Post by fandorin » Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 11:20 AM UTC

What’s your view? The original idea for Facebook was stolen, then he bought Instagram and Whatsup to stay afloat. Metaverse is/was an absolute disaster. And I’m not even talking about all the scandals from Cambridge Analytica era.

How bad CEO, in your opinion, is Mark?

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#2

Post by rvz » Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 11:38 AM UTC

Not many people understand this but he is a billionaire.

Meta is profitable and he can afford to lose bets and can pay off the fines if it means that Meta gets an extra $10B for the next quarter.

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#3

Post by ggm » Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 11:57 AM UTC

I find the amorality of the billionaire class strange. He could be as good as somebody running a public enterprise, a research lab, a hospital. A state energy utility.

Instead he's running a giant meme tank feeding racist shit to win clicks and running fake AI ads boosting scam investments.

He's good at that. But is he actually any good at building things which enrich society without making him money?

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#4

Post by rl1987 » Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 7:36 PM UTC

ggm wrote: post #3

I find the amorality of the billionaire class strange. He could be as good as somebody running a public enterprise, a research lab, a hospital. A state energy utility. Instead he's running a giant meme tank feeding racist shit to win clicks and running fake AI ads boosting scam investments. He's good at that. But is he actually any good at building things which enrich society without making him money?

He does run some strange "capitalist philanthropy" thing with his wife: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Zuckerberg_Initiative

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#5

Post by tacostakohashi » Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 7:45 PM UTC

ggm wrote: post #3

I find the amorality of the billionaire class strange. He could be as good as somebody running a public enterprise, a research lab, a hospital. A state energy utility. Instead he's running a giant meme tank feeding racist shit to win clicks and running fake AI ads boosting scam investments. He's good at that. But is he actually any good at building things which enrich society without making him money?

From his perspective, though, he's just responding to how society chooses to allocate capital. It's not his fault that society apparently values crappy websites more than hospitals, and if he didn't do it, someone else would have.

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#6

Post by bdangubic » Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 7:51 PM UTC

ggm wrote: post #3

I find the amorality of the billionaire class strange. He could be as good as somebody running a public enterprise, a research lab, a hospital. A state energy utility. Instead he's running a giant meme tank feeding racist shit to win clicks and running fake AI ads boosting scam investments. He's good at that. But is he actually any good at building things which enrich society without making him money?

> He's good at that. But is he actually any good at building things which enrich society without making him money?

Name one human for whom this answer would be true - just one please? (not defending Zuck, he is probably one of the most evil people in the history of the entire civilization)

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#7

Post by chistev » Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 7:58 PM UTC

If it was that easy, other people should do it.

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#8

Post by ggm » Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 8:47 PM UTC

bdangubic wrote: post #6

ggm wrote: post #3

I find the amorality of the billionaire class strange. He could be as good as somebody running a public enterprise, a research lab, a hospital. A state energy utility. Instead he's running a giant meme tank feeding racist shit to win clicks and running fake AI ads boosting scam investments. He's good at that. But is he actually any good at building things which enrich society without making him money?

> He's good at that. But is he actually any good at building things which enrich society without making him money? Name one human for whom this answer would be true - just one please? (not defending Zuck, he is probably one of the most evil people in the history of the entire civilization)

I don't know the name of my local hospital administrator, and nor do you I suspect. And, thats kind of the point.

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#9

Post by Dumblydorr » Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 8:58 PM UTC

chistev wrote: post #7

If it was that easy, other people should do it.

They did, he stole the ideas or bought them. What did he actually do himself?

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#10

Post by Dumblydorr » Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 8:59 PM UTC

ggm wrote: post #3

I find the amorality of the billionaire class strange. He could be as good as somebody running a public enterprise, a research lab, a hospital. A state energy utility. Instead he's running a giant meme tank feeding racist shit to win clicks and running fake AI ads boosting scam investments. He's good at that. But is he actually any good at building things which enrich society without making him money?

He’s a sociopath. Why ignore that obvious fact? He buys a Hawaiian island and builds a secret bunker there for when the wasted mouths are eradicated. These robber billionaires aren’t normal people.