Anonymous wrote:He just keeps making extreme decision after extreme decision - seems like he's trying to become Elon?

- No more fact checking
- Throws a bunch of former colleagues and biden admin under the bus
- Says we all need more 'masculine energy' at work
- Announces he's about to fire thousands of people who are 'bad at their jobs'
- The chain (!?)

It's such a dramatic rebrand and carries such a big risk of aging extremely poorly very fast. I get that Elon is like this - but Elon has always been like this. What is in it for zuck??? Is this some kind of midlife crisis?

Anonymous wrote:- No more fact checking
- Throws a bunch of former colleagues and biden admin under the bus
- Says we all need more 'masculine energy' at work
- Announces he's about to fire thousands of people who are 'bad at their jobs'
- The chain (!?)

Extreme? Maybe he's learned something in running his company the last five years about what works.

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Anonymous wrote:What people strangely fail to understand about billionaires is that every single one of them, by definition, has a mental disorder that compels them to continually amass more money by any means necessary, and they will disregard all morality to do it.

Here's a little thought exercise: if you won the lottery, what is the lowest jackpot amount you could win where you would quit your job? Ten million? A hundred million? A billion?

If you answered literally any number, congratulations, you're not the type of sociopath that becomes a billionaire. Every normal person has an amount of money that makes them say "ok that's plenty to do what I need to do in my life." Whether that's travelling the world in luxury, funding charity causes, or building the world's biggest ball of twine, it doesn't matter because you have shown there is some amount of money that will satisfy you.

Billionaires do not have a number that will satisfy them. If they did, they would have stopped before they reached the level of Elon Musk or Peter Thiel where it is literally impossible for them to spend it all in their lifetime even if they tried. Because there is no number that will satisfy them, they are compelled to keep growing their wealth by any means necessary. It is a legitimate addiction, and much like how a heroin addict will do absolutely anything to get their next fix, so will a billionaire to get their next billion, and they don't care how many lives they have to ruin to get it.

Zuckerberg didn't change, this is who he always was, a money junkie desperate to obtain more by any means necessary. Previously he believed that putting on a liberal persona was the best path to the biggest fix, so that's the way he acted, now he sees sucking up to Trump to be a more efficient means so that's what he is doing, but make no mistake - there was no shift in morals because he never had any to begin with.

I don't know if I agree with this. It works if you see your job as primarily a revenue generator. It doesn't work if your work satisfies a creative instinct that you need to meet to be happy.

Let's put it another way: How much would you need to pay Yo-Yo Ma to never touch the cello again? How about Evgeni Kissin, what would it take for him to never come around a piano again? How about Leonardo, what would he charge to stop painting?

I think people like Zuck are no longer doing it for the money. You may disagree with their motivation but they have something they want to do with the business, and that's what gives them pleasure.

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Anonymous wrote:his lawyer just quit citing his 'descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness,”

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/meta-lawyer-lemley-quits-ai-case-citing-zuckerberg-descent

Wow.
That’s big news actually.
Surprised someone said no to Zuckerberg. Let it be the beginning of a trend.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe Fox News et al convinced the MAGAs that the Dems are made of powerful elites while Trump’s administration and closest allies are all loaded. Fools.

Here is a partial list of some of the billionaires who will be attending Trump’s inauguration. It’s not just Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Musk. Not a good look if you’re trying to portray yourself as a champion of the working class.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2025/01/15/meet-the-billionaires-attending-trumps-inauguration-musk-zuckerberg-bezos-and-more/

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Anonymous wrote:Read Kara Swisher’s book. These are not normal people. Very low emotional intelligence. They don’t care about America. They care about a tech utopia and are in constant dick measuring contest. Also, Zuckerberg ‘s motivation for Facebook was stalking women and he stole it from the Winklevosses. In general, billionaires are sociopaths who got to where they are by walking all over people. Billionaires are nerds and have even more to prove.

And yet MAGA worship billionaires. As if virtual proximity to them via their association with Trump is going to rub off on them...

that is not correct and part of the Democrat failures.

MAGA just want to have jobs that let them support their families.

Democrats keep pushing overwhelming immigration to replace US workers with cheap foreign temporary labor.

If Democrats would stop the overwhelming immigration and forces on helping US workers they would never lose elections.

Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe Fox News et al convinced the MAGAs that the Dems are made of powerful elites while Trump’s administration and closest allies are all loaded. Fools.

Anonymous wrote:his lawyer just quit citing his 'descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness,”

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/meta-lawyer-lemley-quits-ai-case-citing-zuckerberg-descent

Anonymous wrote:his lawyer just quit citing his 'descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness,”

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/meta-lawyer-lemley-quits-ai-case-citing-zuckerberg-descent

Anonymous wrote:He just keeps making extreme decision after extreme decision - seems like he's trying to become Elon?

- No more fact checking
- Throws a bunch of former colleagues and biden admin under the bus
- Says we all need more 'masculine energy' at work
- Announces he's about to fire thousands of people who are 'bad at their jobs'
- The chain (!?)

It's such a dramatic rebrand and carries such a big risk of aging extremely poorly very fast. I get that Elon is like this - but Elon has always been like this. What is in it for zuck??? Is this some kind of midlife crisis?