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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg began 2017 with a bold personal challenge: "to have visited and met people in every state in the US by the end of the year."
So far, his whistlestop tour of the states certainly bears all the hallmarks of early political canvassing.
As part of the challenge, Zuckerberg reportedly wanted to meet longtime Democrats who voted for Trump in the last election and asked his team to reach out and find such people.
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Such a tour becomes even more conspicuous in light of unsealed court filings from a class-action lawsuit in 2016 in which Zuckerberg attempted to dilute shareholder power and afford himself permanent control of the $440 billion company.
Of particular note in the proceedings was a message sent to Zuckerberg by Marc Andreessen, one of Facebook's most prominent investors, in which he raised the issue of "how to define the government service thing without freaking out shareholders that you are losing commitment."
"It's the thing people will point to on announcement and say 'what the f**k are you guys doing agreeing to this', particularly since... government service would require you to give up control of Facebook anyway and it's a moot point," said Andreessen, adding credence to speculation that Zuckerberg will make a run for political office at some point in the future.
One of the richest men in the world will be looking out for the little guy, right?
Source: https://www.rt.com/usa/386718-zuckerberg-political-campaign-rumors/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @06:45PM (3 children)
At least engineers know how to solve problems,
That's a false equivalency.
Engineers know how to solve a specific class of problem involving hard sciences like physics and chemistry.
Lawyers know how to solve a different class of problem involved soft sciences like psychology and sociology.
Guess which class most closely resembles the problems of governing, especially governing a democracy?
(Score: 3, Informative) by VLM on Tuesday May 02 2017, @07:05PM (1 child)
Lawyers know how to solve a different class of problem
With all due respect its more like the consultant who's pretty good at keeping the money rolling in and fixing things may or may not help with keeping the money rolling in.
Like the old joke about a lawyer starves in a one-lawyer-town but once a town has two lawyers nothing gets fixed, but the two lawyers do get fat. Any other profession, if the existing population in a professional field is starving, doubling the population would result in utter famine, with the sole exception of lawyers, LOL.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @07:41PM
With all due respect you suck at analogies.
Telling jokes that illustrate your ignorance of fields you have no experience in isn't an analogy, its just superficial invective.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06 2017, @04:14AM
Guess which class most closely resembles the problems of governing, especially governing a democracy?
Neither, because the differences are insignificant. Lawyers tend to want power and money above all, and many are sociopaths/psychopaths. Of course, that problem applies to most politicians, and being an engineer would not really solve anything. The soft sciences are also generally useless and studies can be replicated only some of the time.