I feel similar about Zuckerberg. That guy should just let the government break up his empire, let some other people run the pieces, and retire. Otherwise he just faces humiliation and being in over his head.
But I guess ego keeps these people going.
If he has an ego, he probably really wants to have something is a Magnus Opus he can claim. It'll be interesting because good design is always a dance with other stakeholders. You see this with architects and other "designers" who sometimes go to far into art and forget that buildings do need to be used.
The worst part about the butterfly keyboard was that keys would stop working and fixing it would cost the same as a new laptop. I guess that's what you sacrifice when you design the laptop as thin as Ive envisioned.
Which is not necessarily a good thing, being more interested in reshaping the world even after it becomes clear their vision for the new world isn't making it better just leaves someone with lots of power and bad ideas, not a good combo.
I'd much rather have them chilling on the beach after being done with the limits of their competence.
Orphans and imports don't escape. Even those that are not born here (eg Musk), are eventually taught by society to do the same.
Zuckerberg and friends don't just want to chill on the beach: They want to 0wn it. A common property, then redefine it as "obviously not common", at the expense of others, so that no one else can chill on the beach, unless you provide compensation, for obviously infringing upon their rightful rights duh.
I recently read Careless People and I think it's hard to avoid the conclusion that he has been far out of his element for a long time.
Some people should probably be stopped before they get too hungry. Same with some bald guy in Eurasia right now.
And all of the billionaires donate money, I don't think that sets him apart from the others all that much.
Now that he's gonna go soon (and having just a dozen more human gatherings and dinners left).. we can see that he fully doesn't give half an ounce of fuck after having received in full what he was after.
After much show, Buffet's "charity" money got simply inherited by his kids just as it was planned all along! (taxfree too, you plebs!)
The billionaires that care about the world are like Larry Page, tho still so evil.
Not really such an "early" retirement.
But he's doing charity now, while still having more than 100 billions for himself, so somehow he's a saint.
They are the literal sensei of Zuck the greenhorn and friends. So exceptional that the world thinks they're the exception.
I mean, if it were my company I’d also reserve the right to run it straight into the ground.