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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 thatguy0900 »

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…

How kind of him to give his wealth away after intentionally using his company to fracture society as much as he could to earn the money in the first place

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

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Post by NalNezumi »

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 blocks AI advancement is antichrist, somehow thinks "we should look at why millennials choose socialism" as a thought process?

A more realistic, "what they mean" interpretation of this emailing is:

"FB product have influence over millennials (Instagram) and Boomers (Facebook). Boomers are dying out, so we should double down on our grip over millennials and tune the algorithms so we can manipulate them more than ever. We should lobby and push out the boomers and set millennials in the position of institutional power, and no other cohorts, so that we have a direct pipeline of controlling the public discord and communication between this generation "

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

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Post by lm28469 »

cjs_ac wrote: post #28

The most striking thing about this exchange for me is how abstract it is: until the last email from Clegg, there's no reference to any of Facebook/Meta's products. It sounds more like political strategists trying to find out how to appeal to Millennials, but by pandering to Millennials' pre-existing political views rather than trying to push a political view.

They're parasites, data parasites, political parasites, economical parasites, ...

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

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Post by jimbokun »

code_for_monkey wrote: post #11
tedivm wrote: post #3

> While our company has a special role in the lives of this generation, this is likely particularly important for how I show up because I am the most well-known person of my generation. They really are up their own asses so much in this thread. Just the arrogance of these people absolutely kills me.

Peter Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist. this should be disqualifying for life in the public sphere and somehow it is not.

What the fuck is the "public sphere" and who decides who does or does not get a membership card?

Like, call Thiel an idiot with stupid ideas that are dumb, fine, but trying to cancel someone from the "public sphere" just reeks of passive aggression.

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

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Post by jimbokun »

throitallaway wrote: post #45
code_for_monkey wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Peter Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist. this should be disqualifying for life in the public sphere and somehow it is not.

It's always projection with those people.

Can you please express a coherent thought instead of regurgitating the same meme that appears in any discussion about anything?

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

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Post by jimbokun »

saubeidl wrote: post #16
code_for_monkey wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Peter Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist. this should be disqualifying for life in the public sphere and somehow it is not.

We must understand that all of our industries leaders are deeply mentally ill and dangerous people. Whether that is from not ever being told no once they got rich enough or whether it's pathological to even seek out that dimension of wealth is not clear, but the result is worrying either way.

Are you a licensed psychiatrist?

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

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Post by lm28469 »

hereme888 wrote: post #80

Reminder to millennials: Socialism in real life = Biggest Government, Biggest Tech monopoly, forced uniformity, no self-agency, no authenticity for anyone who slightly disagrees with any aspect of the agenda, etc. Source: I fled Venezuela because I lived in it.

No offence but Venezuela is a political meme and one of the most corrupt country out there lol, given your natural resources you should be doing way better regardless of where the government leans.

Socialism brought a lot of good things all over Europe in the 1900s

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

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Post by jimbokun »

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 true for technology in the sense that anytime Congress wants to bring in someone for a hearing about anything tangentially related to being online, Zuckerberg will be invited.

But beyond that, yeah.

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

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Post by rsynnott »

jimbokun wrote: post #94
code_for_monkey wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Peter Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist. this should be disqualifying for life in the public sphere and somehow it is not.

What the fuck is the "public sphere" and who decides who does or does not get a membership card? Like, call Thiel an idiot with stupid ideas that are dumb, fine, but trying to cancel someone from the "public sphere" just reeks of passive aggression.

I'd read this as "no-one should take the insane person seriously".

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

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Post by rsynnott »

throwaway20222 wrote: post #68
vvpan wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And Elon Musk does Nazi salutes in-front of the nation and just goes back to being CEO of things.

Why the down votes? Should I not believe my own eyes?

> The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command

George Orwell, 1984

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