Zuckerberg Caught on Hot Mic Promoting Fake Investment Figures to Support Trump
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Mark Zuckerberg was caught on a hot mic promoting fake investment figures to support Trump, sparking outrage and criticism in the HN community about his motivations and the implications of such actions.
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The denial of death, they can’t have physical immortality so they build legacies and monuments and etc.
There’s a few books on it, the worm at the core, the denial of death, they don’t specifically speak to the foibles of billionaires but it’s a logical extension.
I mean, kinda. There's bit of a market efficiency problem for human progress. If everybody assumes someone else will push the ball forward, that means nobody will. As much as you believe technology is part of progress, you have to expect really idiosyncratic people are going to be the ones taking the reins.
As much as we cringe at Zuck and his choices, he probably looks around his peers and sees himself as saving the rest of us from even worse like David Ellison.
These people have a pathological need to hoard wealth.
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