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Facebook’s CEO Mark “$70 Billion” Zuckerberg echoes Bernie “Ban Billionaires” Sanders — tells his staff that “no one deserves that much money.” But he’s not sure how much money someone should have. At the last FB staff meeting, he said Elizabeth Warren’s crusade to breakup social media would “suck” for Facebook, and he would fight it and win. Is Zuckerberg boasting, or does his Progressive heart break at the thought of America’s tragic income inequality?
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Facebook’s Mark “$70 Billion” Zuckerberg Backs Bernie “Ban Billionaires” Sanders
Facebook’s CEO Mark “$70 Billion” Zuckerberg echoes Bernie “Ban Billionaires” Sanders — tells his staff that “no one deserves that much money.” But he’s not sure how much money someone should have.
8 replies on “Facebook’s Mark “$70 Billion” Zuckerberg Backs Bernie “Ban Billionaires” Sanders”
He has been entrusted with 70B dollars according to his ability. Okay, so whats it gonna be? “Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much” or “You wicked and slothful servant!”. It’s not really about the money. $70B or $7. It’s all just a drop in the bucket. If you have to ask what you should do with it- I would say ya are in a heap o’ trouble.
Someone with $70B and does not know what to do with it must have and extremely stunted imagination and no awareness of the world around them. Look at Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Something that sticks in my mind I have heard Bill Whittle say on TSL more than a few times,
“How do you make a small fortune in Aerospace? Start with a LARGE fortune”.
In the mean time you are employing people and inventing technology that will help all of mankind. Incredible way to have fun and contribute to the world.
If Aerospace is not your game, and you are more of a “help the inner city” type person, start companies that will send people in to mentor the many 1000’s of fatherless kids that end up being raised in the streets and turned into gangsters who prey on society. Once again, employing people and making a positive impact on society.
This statement may be out of line but here goes, anyone with $70 Billion at their disposal that complains they have too much money has lost their imagination and their humanity.
Obviously they have more than they or their families could spend in several life times and it keeps growing. In my opinion, do what you want, but to not use a large portion of it for something to benefit humanity (employ people giving them training marketable SKILLS and meaningful work, invent things that don’t exist, improve things that do) is a waste of a huge blessing you have been given. You may think you are the smartest guy in the room and you may be the richest, but you are really the biggest self absorbed fool.
Gates and other rich folks, Warren Buffet I think is included, have a pledge to turn over 90% of their wealth when they die. Some smaller group is using their money to do a variety of do-gooder things.. not all of which are probably useful for efficient.
I do like the idea of paying for mentors, tutors and job creation.
Mike Rowe on the other hand is both opening people to the idea of non-college post-secondary ed and work in the trades. The jobs are both high paying and not outsourced and with so many companies needing workers there are plenty of apprenticeship and on the job training programs. I think Zuck would be better talking to Mike Rowe and either getting more coders trained to expand his software offerings and also some hardware/EE types to build his newer computers and data centers to expand his video calling services.
“A portable stripper’s pole should not be too expensive.” Zuck could fund the development and production of a drone based, gyroscopic, stand alone pole, and make another $billion by lobbying the Olympic Committee to require its use in the new “sport.” Oh the curse of unintended philanthropy. Why pay taxes?
The exact amount that someone deserves is ZERO. You don’t deserve income or wealth; you earn it.
And work ≠ money. I work for a minute and make about $2. My server at Burger World worked (around my table) for 20 minutes and made about $2 from me as a tip.
Value = money. And value is a very subjective thing.
Someone actually thought that what Zuck provided was worth an aggregate $70 Billion in personal wealth. I didn’t. I don’t face or twit or even snap. So Zuck is worth exactly NUTHIN to me!
That’s capitalism. And if Zuck thinks it’s all bad, he can give it all away. That’s charity.
But if he’s advocating that government should forcefully come and take it, then that’s communism — or the democratic platform, whichever you like.
Excellent response!
Facebook, Twitter, and SnapChat are valueless to me as well. I discovered Bill on that other bastion of Leftism called YouTube.
Zuckerberg had a brain and a lot of help getting his 70 billion. But, like the lion in The Wizard of OZ,, he doesn’t have a heart. No wonder he doesn’t know what to do with the money.
By what standard does a person who did NOT earn Zuckerberg’s money give him the right to take it by government force?
His employees do not have that right because they agreed to deliver their work for what they were paid. If the employees don’t like the deal, they should not have made the deal and can go elsewhere to find better employment. Ditto for the customers of Zuckerberg’s company.
I for one joined for a specific personal purpose. When I discovered that purpose was not met, I canceled my account. Since that joining was free, I did not expect to receive anymore than having my account canceled. That is the SAME deal the billions? of users got. They freely accepted the deal so they too have no right to expect any more than that.
Nothing else is just. Make a deal and live by the deal you made. Don’t expect anything else to be given to you by you using the gun of government.
That said, I don’t like the way Zuckerberg does business. Hence, I don’t do business with his company.