Do you ever think the country would be better off if Zuckerberg hadn't dropped out of Harvard during his sophomore year? Maybe a little more education would have been a good idea?
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For a present day example one needs only to look at Russia. A bunch of oligarchs own the place protected by Putin and in turn to whom they show fealty. This is how Trump will play things
He started off with "Hot or Not" objectifying women, then he spent years accessing peoples private information from colleges to build his Fbook database. He has no integrity or morals. A sociopath at best, more psychopathic tenancies than anyone with his money and power should have.
Don’t think it is education. I think it is empathy and values. Education can help but most people either have developed those by their late teens to mid-20s or they haven’t and are driven by ambition, greed or something else. Few billionaires are driven by either empathy or values.
While I agree that more education is a good thing, I'd like to point out that many of the architects/enablers of our present mess are Yale and Harvard grads.
He’s behaving no differently than 98% of CEOs. They are arrogant power mongers which is how they got to be CEOs. Their thirst for money is endless and they have disdain for regular people.
Education does not cure mental illness. Guns don't cure the power hungry. Party drugs don't cure social anxiety. Relationships don't cure broken hearts. Heading the Health Dept. doesn't mean RFK is sober. No one is healthy in Rapey Don World.
Trump is guilt of so many things, that he couldn't get elected for anything normally. Zuckerberg, is private, not government. We can not deal with Facebook, like boycott. The government we have to overthrow. VOTE THEM OUT. Joyce, I even wrote a book on strengthening our Constitution.
Thing is: He is in the yacht-competition world that is fraught with power envy and he is fearful of not being atop the in-crowd. If it were not so dangerous it would be extremely sad and pathetic, and in some way still is.
Maybe. But he's no different than any other white privileged male in America who created an entity and parlayed it into a behemoth business enterprise that's basically self-regulated and the majority of the world's population can't live without it. How many inventors have college degrees and wealth?
Zuck is a perfect example of why the liberal arts need to be required for everyone in college. Things like ethics, philosophy, history, and literature are essential to at least help these robots understand how humans work.
Some folks decide they've got life all figured out before they've experienced enough to actually know what life is really all about. Z ain't no different.
I didn’t realize Zuckerberg had dropped out of college in his sofmore year! I honestly thought he was on the side of the middle class. I feel that a lot of these billionaires are running scared right now they want a piece of the pie.
Am seriously thinking of deleting my FB account. I haven't been there in months and months, and was going to leave it up just in case, but I'm very much having second thoughts.
I am sp conflicted about social media sites. Someone else would have been there if Zuckface had stayed in school, but why are they donating money to a felon? Pure greed.
as a humble, former university professor, i can tell you as a fact, that we do teach morals, ethics, logic, etiquette, and critical thinking; now does it always work? of course not; but do we try? of course we do; your point stands pagan queen
Can you sue FB for reporting scammers & they put you in FB “timeout” for doing so? It’s becoming a hotbed of romance scammers & the platform is doing nothing but protecting them. FB is not removing scammer profiles
Yup! Unbelievable. I’m so angry I’m about a half a step away from dropping FB, IG & 🧵. If I didn’t rely on them so much to promote my clients & keep in touch with old friends, I’d delete my accounts. I might still. 🤬🤬
Julia Ioffe wrote this about Ben Rhodes. But it applies to Zuckerberg.
“he would have been better served … had he not been so young and if he had been a little better versed in history—and if he had done some of this learning about the world before taking such an important job.”
Sadly this can be said for EVERY ‘tech disruptor’ of the silicon valley. Everyone of them so convinced of their own genius they believe they even model morality biologically aka eugenic hawks .
the original purpose of Facebook was for the geek Zuckerberg and his pimply friends to rate women. evaluating them as to their worthiness to be with a creep like Zuck.
wouldn’t have made a difference. by that point he was fully a douche tech bro with a giant chip
on his shoulder to counter that tiny dick. ironic considering how big a dick he is
I think he’s on the autism spectrum, so no. College doesn’t teach empathy, which he clearly lacks. He may have benefited, though, from having to deal with the fact that he wasn’t the smartest guy in the room.
And if he had a few more knocks. (Ostensibly to have more common sense knocked into him.) He certainly doesn’t understand the importance of the democratic process or appreciate the common Americans struggle. He’s a rich white tech bro. These men have become scourges to democracy and America.
Not sure education would have changed him. There is a psychological aspect here where a person is sure he or she knows better than anyone else already and frankly they are bored. Willingness to listen is key to compassion,discernment, and learning.
No amount of education is a substitute for a moral and integrity compass. They all forget. Their billions made on the backs of poor and struggling people earns then a place I hell not heaven. Dante dude not have a circle for them amongst in 9.
Absolutely. And now he shows his true color by investing in the convicted felon inaugural fund. How's that for a dropout? I haven't been investing my time on any of his products, and I intend to do so for as long as I can breathe.
He began by making a website premised on stealing others’ personal images, rating them on their looks, and making them feel shit about themselves. And that’s where he ended up. So yeah, he could possibly benefit from a Women’s or Queer Studies or CRT class in between all the plutocrating.
Education doesn't make you a moral person. Zuck is amoral. He's focused on his goals and thinks little about larger moral issues or ramifications. He's like the other tech bros. "If we can build it then we will." Look at what he's said and written about his employees and other subjects.
Looking at what seems to be the only thing that he learned at Harvard was how to get the contact information for all the hottest girls on campus, and that )as I understand it) wasn't a part of any of the curriculum, I don't think 2 more years there would have helped.
I don't think it is lack of higher education - more like a narcissist with a serious lack of morals, character, empathy for most of humanity. same for donny convict and e. muskhole
Education would be an answer for those with the right attitude,however, there are plenty of Ivy- leaguers who finished multiple degrees at the best universities, but chose the paths of idiots…Josh Hawley… Maria Bartromo…John Robert’s…firsts names that come to mind.
As a dropout from an almost-as-august institution: No, and fuck you for poking my psychic wound. Zuckerberg is a bad person who ruthlessly capitalized on a few lucky breaks. Dropping out only shifted the timeline by a two years.
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We have a flock of emotionally stunted and empathetically challenged billionaires controlling our destiny.
And that spells disaster, because they don't see us as human beings at all. We're just pawns in their selfish games.
Common decency.
Morals.
A stake in democracy within the country he lives in.
Is this offered at Harvard ?
Because he would have flunked all those courses
The fall of genuine liberal democracy (y'know, basic societal decency) began in 1979.
He is a capitalist. That's really all you need to know.
good job Sarah O'Brien, you may as well announce
It’s Key to being woke
Ignorance is the opposite
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Never forget how Zuck helped rig the 2016 election and gave away the personal data of tens of millions of people (over 50M).
Cambridge Analytica.
If you use his products, you are complicit!
It's time to end MAGA, Trump, and his oligarchs.
Although judging from some of the folks who graduated from Harvard in recent years, that school has a lot to answer for. 😾
Thing is: He is in the yacht-competition world that is fraught with power envy and he is fearful of not being atop the in-crowd. If it were not so dangerous it would be extremely sad and pathetic, and in some way still is.
With great privilege comes great responsibility.
“he would have been better served … had he not been so young and if he had been a little better versed in history—and if he had done some of this learning about the world before taking such an important job.”
the original purpose of Facebook was for the geek Zuckerberg and his pimply friends to rate women. evaluating them as to their worthiness to be with a creep like Zuck.
THEN you can have a Trump,a Musk ,a Zuckerberg
and nothing bad wouldt have happen
on his shoulder to counter that tiny dick. ironic considering how big a dick he is
That's not the issue.
The issue is that Zuckerberg is piece of shit.