Until you listen to the Behind the Bastards on him and realize FB started out as a women hotness rating system local to his college. There was no benign origin here.
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reddig33@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Dude could have just let Facebook be Facebook and been successful. Instead he has all these weird, unnecessary ideas about how to manipulate people.
zephorah@lemm.ee 1 day ago
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
That doesn’t sound quite right to me. Wasn’t FaceMash the thing for rating girls from campus. The Facebook was born from the idea of the Winklevoss twins who asked him to right the code.
They settled a lawsuit for a lot of money, at the time.
antisocialite@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Same with all of these tech bros. The dude from Reddit said he’s anticipating the destruction of the country because he thinks only he’s ordained to rule over what’s left. Him and his accelerationist pal Musky.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Thing it’s not the dude. It’s the system that forces most dudes to come up with newer ways to grow and make profit. If they don’t, they open the door to competition that would. Then their competitor could eventually overtake them, take their customers and profits, then hostile or peacefully takeover the OG dude.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Why do you act like this is a bad thing? You just described how it’s supposed to work.
Look at Tom from MySpace. He had it all. Got overtaken by the competition. Now he just travels the world, takes pictures, and does whatever the fuck he wants.
Zuck is never going to want for a damn thing for the rest of his life. The fact that he hasn’t just fucked off to paradise is a Zuck problem.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Not sure if sarcastic or I didn’t make my point well enough. Just in case I’ll expand. The bad thing is that the system necessitates ever increasing profits. It’s not the individuals. If Zuck fucks off to paradise Zuck’ would take over the social media market and keep finding ways to grow profits year-on-year. The problem with ever increasing profit is this profit comes from the wages and time of people one way or another, leaving less for other social things like paying to meet friends, a partner, having and raising children. Multiply this process to most firms in most markets and you’ll soon see that this leads to social instability, unrest, crisis, and worse. Like it’s happened in the past in different places around the world. Today in the US, Big Tech does it, Big Ag does it, Big Grocer does it, Big Insurance does it, Big Landlord does it, Big Pharma does it, and increasingly larger proportion of the population gets squeezed out of time and money… for the basics or luxuries like friends and partners. And they’re not gonna take it laying down. Electing Trump was one salvo, even if counterproductive.
unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org 13 hours ago
Yes, the continued consolidation of the economy into everything “Big” is the problem. Survival of the fittest only works as a core component of the economic philosophy if we allow firms to be out-competed and for market shifts to occur.
Ever-increasing profit is not a problem if a consummate increase in service or product quality comes along for the ride. This is how an economy expands. We all want this, even if it creates turbulence at the individual or community level.
Consolidating into entities that are too big to fail is a problem. Give me Zuck Prime. This is literally why we are all on Lemmy, is it not?
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Yeah I can see what you’re getting at here and I agree.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Does he really need to do that though? Isn’t he the majority shareholder and he can essentially do what he wants?
LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
When ya put it like that, it makes capitalism sound kinda like Roko’s Basilisk.
Ulrich@feddit.org 22 hours ago
No, they can continue to make the same profit and still not open the door for competition. The need for ever-higher profits is driven by investors.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
It’s the dude. He fucking built the system.