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The thing that most surprises me in these emails are that those two people care about housing price or student debt, or millennials in general. And cynical me can't brush of the feeling that this is satire or that I need to read between the lines. A dude that buys all houses around him just to get privacy and "fuck off" others (Zuck) cares about housing? A guy that think Greta is antichrist and think anyone that bloc…
** 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.
Though I do wonder if you looked at all people with a net worth of over say 100M whether the proportion of incredibly stupid people would be the same as the general population or whether we just have so many incredibly stupid people some of them will get lucky.
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> give entire industries (steel, gold, petroleum) to the "workers" That's one way to put it, the other way to put it is that your corrupt government seized the industries and put their cronies in charge, which I would say is more accurate.
That's literally how socialism and communism works in real life. Radicals tell the masses what they want to hear, and then seize radical power, take their weapons, and force their will upon the people, while claiming it's for everyone's benefit. People who haven't witnessed it firsthand believe the insane pink-powder theory that "if I were in charge, I would be able to implement it correctly", daydreaming they are su…
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That's literally how socialism and communism works in real life. Radicals tell the masses what they want to hear, and then seize radical power, take their weapons, and force their will upon the people, while claiming it's for everyone's benefit. People who haven't witnessed it firsthand believe the insane pink-powder theory that "if I were in charge, I would be able to implement it correctly", daydreaming they are su…
What you're describing is a mix of populism and plutocracy/kleptocracy/oligarchy, these can and do thrive under any type of political or economical system, they didn't wait for socialism to exist... and unless Putin and Trump are far left radical communists, they're implementing, in different ways, what you just described lmao.
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What you're describing is a mix of populism and plutocracy/kleptocracy/oligarchy, these can and do thrive under any type of political or economical system, they didn't wait for socialism to exist... and unless Putin and Trump are far left radical communists, they're implementing, in different ways, what you just described lmao.
you can't philosophy reality away with your academic theories. This is why research has to be validated with real life results. It's basic scientific theory.
The US and Russia aren't under any kind of socialist system right now but suffer from the things you just described as socialism shortcomings.
France was socialist for a long time and did not suffer any of what you just mentioned.
The only thing that isn't validated by reality is your over simplified mental model of what socialism is.
** 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…
** 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…
He is flattening Mark in order to keep him under his leash. Zuck has never said something generationally interesting
Till I figured u likely slightly mistyped flattering, haha.
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> 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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That Meta/facebook had a special role in the lives of his generation is not up for debate. It's a fact. Also, zuckerburg probably meant he was the "most well-known person in tech" of his generation, which is true. But expanding it beyond tech, he definitely is as well-known as anyone else in his generation. Everyone in his generation knows what facebook is. Everyone in his generation knows zuckerburg. The guy may be…
You literally had to rewrite the meaning of the statement to remove the arrogance. He didn't say "in tech", he said what he said.
No I didn't because the context of the statement was up for debate.
> He didn't say "in tech", he said what he said.
The email thread about about tech though. Besides, I also wrote "But expanding it beyond tech, he definitely is as well-known as anyone else in his generation."
My comment was in good fath and addressed both scenarios : "tech" and "non-tech"
Your original comment and not surprising your reply was not in good faith because have an agenda.