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> I can’t tell if Zuckerberg is dimwitted or just evil.

I can.

It doesn't have to be mutually exclusive.

This is definitely a why not both sort of situation. In fact, I think being dimwitted is often associated with being evil, since goodness is (often) just rational self-interest.

negativity is usually the easy path so evil and dimwittedness go together quite well.

Zuckerberg got enthroned when he was like 22 and has been primarily interacting with people who want something with him, while not having any wants himself, since then.

He's not necessarily dimwitted but it would take an absolutely amazing person to understand the 8 layers below him without having lived any of them. Of course he can't transcend Meta into something beyond what it's become.

Being fabulously wealthy his whole adult life he doesn’t know what it’s like to struggle to make rent, or have to take your kids out of school and leave the country in 60 days. Those are things that happen to plebs far away and far beneath his concern.

Honestly if a meta employee, esp software dev is having to struggle to make rent or have no emergency savings, its actually on the employee. They are not making burgerking salaries to have to live paycheck to paycheck unless they make poor housing and cars and vacation choices.

The visa issue guys should play safe, stick to stabler companies, more reward isnt without more risk

I get that whats happening at meta is wrong, but please stay away from these excuses as to why thats wrong, these aren’t for those employees

The evil genius is very rare compared to the evil idiot.

Or in this case the, I think, evil smart person who is way out of touch.

I don't think it is either of those. He is clearly not dumb nor do I think he is inherently evil. The thing is just that he became a billionaire at 23 and did not have to experience any of the grounding and setbacks that turn someone into a responsible adult.

He is basically a middle-aged college bro that always got what he wanted and never had to ask twice for something.

It's not like he was a decent person before he got rich.

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