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Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)

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Re: Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)

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Post by disambiguation »

tru3_power wrote: post #121
disambiguation wrote: post #85

Wow am I reading this correctly? To recap: - They're going to run Zuck for president to beat the millennial socialist zeitgeist. - They're going to use generational warfare to stage an institutional coup. > we need to do better than simply dismiss them by saying that they are stupid or entitled or brainwashed Classy.

I did not get him running for president from this. Which part made you think that?

Granted I'm taking creative liberties reading between the lines and mapping to other context. I'd give it low odds overall, but I'm gleaning a non-zero likelihood worthy of consideration:

1. "Mark Zuckerberg has been cast as the spokesman for the Millennial generation."

2. "I am the most well-known person of my generation"

3. "we'll even see a millennial president within the next few cycles by 2032."

4. The direct comparison to Pete Buttigieg.

5. He's signaled a presidential bid in the recent past.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/mark-zuc...

Some additional interpretation of mine from the exchange:

6. The expressed need to "win" in the policy arena in the next few years.

7. The imminent "transfer of value" (and power) from boomers to millennials, and the explicit urgency and intent to "position" themselves to capitalize on this "rapid shift."

Further real world context:

8. Thiel's track record of hands on political involvement with Trump, Vance, and Yarvin.

9. Thiel's recent "antichrist" lectures which articulates a fear of being "scapegoated."

Re: Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)

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Post by triceratops »

misiti3780 wrote: post #47
latexr wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

r/Millennials has a relevant list of Millennial celebrities. https://www.reddit.com/r/Millennials/comments/1g1gw7v/famous... Zuckerberg thinks he’s more well-known than Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Ed Sheeran, Scarlett Johansson, Adele, Lady Gaga, Cristiano Ronaldo, Beyoncé…

I mean, he is *as* well known as those people. You think more people know who Ed Sheeran than Zuckerberg?

Yes.

Re: Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)

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Post by misiti3780 »

latexr wrote: post #57
misiti3780 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, he is *as* well known as those people. You think more people know who Ed Sheeran than Zuckerberg?

Are you aware that Ed Sheeran is one of—and was not that long ago the —best selling music artist in the world? The fact you only nitpicked a single name from that list is, I think, quite telling. We know who Zuckerberg is. Non-tech-nerds just going on with their lives don’t for the most part, even if they use apps from Meta. If they even heard the name, it was due to some negative news related to Facebook or Meta.

The Millennial age group is 29 to 44 years and most of these people used FB in college and saw the social network.

It's true, I picked him because he was the obvious laggard in that list of celebrities (he is by far the least talented of everyone else in the list) . The poll someone else posted shows in the US, Zuckerberg is more well known than Sheeran.

Re: Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)

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Post by mvdtnz »

DrewADesign wrote: post #10

** maybe edit of un-shame: ... is it? * edit of shame: it's satire. Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug. > there is a certain sense in which Mark Zuckerberg has been cast as 'the spokesman' for the Millennial generation — as the single person who gives voice to the hopes and fears and the unique experiences of this generation, at least in the USA That is an absolutely bananas read of Zuck's place in American cultur…

It's important to understand that Peter Thiel is incredibly stupid.

Re: Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)

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Post by hereme888 »

lm28469 wrote: post #117
svieira wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Socialism brought a lot of good things all over Europe in the 1900s Just ask Poland!

I forgot to mention that 280 iq individuals who think socialism = communism = USSR = gulags can refrain from commenting No wonder we can't have any serious discussions on these topics...

My IQ is not 300, but it's sufficient to understand reality:

- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: operated under the Communist Party's centralized control, with state ownership of production, suppression of dissent, and looked more like communist authoritarianism than democratic socialism.

- CCP, Cuba, North Korea: they call themselves socialists while being led by communist parties.

- Democratic socialism like Sweden, Norway, Denmark: very different from the above.

Re: Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)

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Post by badcryptobitch »

tsm wrote: post #5

Previously (2024-07-07; 136 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40898654

I didn't know that. I encountered these emails recently from the Tech Emails X account and figured I'd share here because 1) it's very timely considering the NYC mayor elections and 2) HN is a great place to read about people's thoughts on topics like these outside of where I usually hangout.

Re: Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)

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Post by DrewADesign »

mvdtnz wrote: post #145
DrewADesign wrote: post #10

** maybe edit of un-shame: ... is it? * edit of shame: it's satire. Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug. > there is a certain sense in which Mark Zuckerberg has been cast as 'the spokesman' for the Millennial generation — as the single person who gives voice to the hopes and fears and the unique experiences of this generation, at least in the USA That is an absolutely bananas read of Zuck's place in American cultur…

It's important to understand that Peter Thiel is incredibly stupid.

Perhaps his most benign character flaw.

Re: Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)

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Post by benrutter »

laserlight wrote: post #138
benrutter wrote: post #86

> When Mark and Priscilla commit to giving away 99% of their wealth during their lifetimes I hadn't heard this before but googling it seems like a genuine commitment at the time[0]. I mostly feel like Zuck isn't making the world a better place, but this sounds really impressive as a commitment - any idea if this commitments been stuck to now we're around 10 years on? [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-349…

> giving away Giving away to their own LLC, not to a non-profit [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Zuckerberg_Initiative

That's so interesting- I'd assumed from the name that it was a charity for allocating donations, but legally it's a regular company?

Seems like its activities are mostly charity based at least.

It's a confusing thing, and I still don't really understand what 99% of wealth over the course of a lifetime actually means in real terms. Is that of lifetime wealth? 99% of Zuck's wealth from 2015 over the course of his life?

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