[ggm]

I find the amorality of the billionaire class strange. He could be as good as somebody running a public enterprise, a research lab, a hospital. A state energy utility.

Instead he's running a giant meme tank feeding racist shit to win clicks and running fake AI ads boosting scam investments.

He's good at that. But is he actually any good at building things which enrich society without making him money?

[tacostakohashi]

From his perspective, though, he's just responding to how society chooses to allocate capital. It's not his fault that society apparently values crappy websites more than hospitals, and if he didn't do it, someone else would have.

[badpun]

Same argument goes for Hitler though. If he didn't do it, there'd be another fascist leader exploiting the masses' love of fascism in early 1930s Germany.

[rl1987]

He does run some strange "capitalist philanthropy" thing with his wife: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Zuckerberg_Initiative

[journal]

He's like Tiger Woods of social media. Can you imagine him doing anything else?

[bdangubic]

> He's good at that. But is he actually any good at building things which enrich society without making him money?

Name one human for whom this answer would be true - just one please? (not defending Zuck, he is probably one of the most evil people in the history of the entire civilization)

[senordevnyc]

he is probably one of the most evil people in the history of the entire civilization

This is legitimately hilarious. If only Hitler or Stalin knew that to really hit the top of the evil pyramid these days, you need to create a social network. Murdering millions just doesn't compare.

[btschaegg]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Richner

[ggm]

I don't know the name of my local hospital administrator, and nor do you I suspect. And, thats kind of the point.

[bdangubic]

your local hospital administrator is building what exactly? she/he works for free? if you are in America you picked another evil empire, US health system - try and pick something else………

[Dumblydorr]

He’s a sociopath. Why ignore that obvious fact? He buys a Hawaiian island and builds a secret bunker there for when the wasted mouths are eradicated. These robber billionaires aren’t normal people.

[senordevnyc]

I'm sure they're all the same to you, but that's Ellison, not Zuckerberg.

[cutthegrass2]

Not a whole island, but a significant bit of one. https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-inside-hawaii-co...

[senordevnyc]

1400 acres is 0.4% of Kauai.