This is quite the stretch of the phrase “You should know”
For anyone who hasn’t seen it you need to watch The social network movie.
Mark is a good, kind person
No he’s not.
He has done tremendous, incalculable, harm to countless people. All of our lives are worse because Zuckerberg is an asshole.
He is literally building a fallout bunker on dispited lands destroying the community, which is obviously a great example of his companies macro cultural damage.
Imagine knowing millions of people hate you. You’d wanna go build a giant hole in the ground to go hide. Oh wait.
Important: He did these things to cause harm knowingly and deliberately.
“They trust me for some reason. Idiots.”
-Mark Zuckerberg, ç 2001-2002
Chris Hughes sucks almost as much as Zuckerberg. He fucked up his tenure as owner of The New Republic. He’s just as much of a worthlessn rich dickbag.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/inside-collapse-new-republic
He also literally killed a story on Apple’s tax dodging calling the story tone deaf in response to Tim Cook coming out as gay as though those two things aren’t mutually exclusive.
Any human with knowledge of the company and a decent sense of right and wrong knows it should be dismantled.
Why should we know this?
Nah, nationalize it.
I’m not sure that a government run propaganda machine would be any better. Especially not this government.
Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire.
All these monopolies need to be broken and billionaires taxed out of billionaire status.
Okay.
And?
I think the purpose is that this could be eye-opening for people who aren’t as tuned in as the average lemming. A co-founder of a company saying that the same company is bad and should not exist is a very workable route toward getting more kinds of people to see situations like this as they truly are.
Most/many of us here are just not the intended demo for articles like this, but a lack of personal relevance is not the same as a total lack of value.
I mean it is a total lack of value, because it once again means that people listen to some rando on where our society should move towards rather than scientists. Facebook is bad for society. Don’t listen to founders, don’t listen to millionaires, don’t listen to billionaires. Listen to scientists.
If people actually listen to this dude and not to scientists, that’s an even bigger problem, because once again people are incapable of understanding value at a basic level.
It’s entry level and that is not without value. Everybody has to start somewhere, or else they never start at all. If this article inspires even a couple hundred others to start paying attention where it counts, that would be a positive and valuable change.
Entry level would be listening to scientists on news sites… not continuing to listen to billionaires on news sites. Their behavior has not changed one iota if they continue to listen to billionaires on the news.
Entry level is whatever gets people to enter a new line of thought. It gets the process started. What you’re talking about is someone who has already begun the process and made it past the gate which you are currently playing keeper to. What youre talking about is someone who already knows the entry level things and so now reflects that in the ways they choose to educate themselves.
This article gives people who need it a little push and a reason to start changing their behavior and thought process, instead of just telling them that they’re stupid and wrong for not already knowing and agreeing with whatever you think is best.
Being upset about their behavior not magically changing on their own is not helpful to this cause. Giving them reasons to reconsider why they see things the way they do is helpful, because the whole point is to get them thinking and behaving differently, not getting them feeling defensive and possibly scaring them off from ever trying again. If the goal is positive change, that change must begin with perspective and information.
If not here, and through things like this article, where do you expect that change to begin? Because we’ve had enough pooled time to tell its not going to spontaneously happen just because we want it to. So, very genuinely, if you know a better way then now is the time to share it with the rest of us. How would you better begin the process of convincing these people to start living in ways which you would deem worthwhile?
Pessimism doesnt justify denying the reality that if we want these people to know and do better, than there simply have to be steps taken toward starting that process, which is clearly the goal of this piece.
You are currently gatekeeping the barrier-to-entry of that betterment, and for what? Because people aren’t already where you want them to be? That can be read as many things, but ‘helpful’ is just not one of them.
Here’s the thing. Famous people have been going on and saying things like “Facebook is bad” for over a decade now. Those people you’re talking about already had the chance to get past entry level.
The “entry point” isn’t “listen to billionaires”. It’s “stop listening to billionaires”. These are two fundamentally opposite ideas so there’s no chance for the first to be an entry point to the second.
The general public won’t click on an article about what scientists say, but more likely will click on an article about the founder of Facebook. That’s just how it is. So if you want people to wake up to a fact, it’s helpful to meet them where they are.
Or you can just tell them what they should value as a source of information, that usually works really well with humans.
Why should I know this
To have another reason to dream about bombing Facebook’s HQ.
You know what they say, ”Don’t bomb the whistleblowers with the CEOs"
Roll out the guillotines if that fuckwad billionaire refuses.
Okay? So why hasn’t he done anything while Mark was running away with it all?
Because he hasn’t been there since 2007?
Okay? So why hasn’t he done anything prior to his exit in 2007? What stopped him from telling Mark or seeing something in Mark that spelled malicious intent from doing the damage he’d later do?
Dude, they didn’t even allow public registration a year prior. This was basically the product in its infancy and has no bearing on what’s happened over the course of the last couple of decades.
I might as well ask you why you didn’t step up and fix it.
Since it’s US based, I’m pretty sure it will soon go down with the rest of the nation.
Maybe trump will nationalize it, to make his propaganda posts always show at the top or some other fascist bullshit.
Pretty sure Facebook has been paid by the gov for some time now.
15 years too late
Yeah, probably so he can start a similar company and get his piece of the pie.
