The enemy is simultaneously weak and strong.

"You're not creative, you're not future-thinking, you're focused on threats in the present," he said, adding that those qualities could threaten America's culture of innovation. He noted that Mark Zuckerberg, a millennial, was 20 when he founded Facebook, but that Gen Z has only Greta Thunberg and Malala Yousafzai to compare themselves to. Millennials, he argued, rebuilt the "entire world."

Yes and Meta is doing wonderfully right now, and surely capitalists think long term :lenin-sure: :this-is-fine:

Malala was literally shot in the skull and survived, what did Zuck even do? Create someone nonsense "metaverse" that no one cares about?

https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-are-weakened-kids-social-media-oped-says-2023-1

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    He noted that Mark Zuckerberg, a millennial, was 20 when he founded Facebook, but that Gen Z has only Greta Thunberg and Malala Yousafzai to compare themselves to.

    Greta: World-famous for her activism against climate change, which is an existential threat to humanity and most life on Earth

    Zuck: Asshole who started out making a website to creep on girls and eventually turned it into a massive predatory skinner box and data harvesting operation

    Yeah, I know who I'd rather be compared to.

    • Infantile_Disorder [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Zuck: Lucky creep who was gifted the remnants of DARPA LifeLog to utilise as a data gathering service for the CIA.

        • Wertheimer [any]
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          2 years ago

          You can say anything you want if there are fewer than 50 million speakers of your language, because they'll wait until after you've caused 700,000 deaths to hire more than one content moderator. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/myanmar-facebook-hate/

    • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Gen Z has only Greta Thunberg and Malala Yousafzai to compare themselves to.

      Is Luna Oi not Gen Z?

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Even by his own twisted, perverse logic Zuck created Facebook at 19, not 20, but it took years to become something approaching what it is today and to gain the momentum it needed as a (shitty) business. So he wouldn't have heard of the next Zuckerberg yet anyway. It'd be some Zoomer fucking around with an AI gif generator or something right now that'll rule and then destroy the world in years to come.