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Re:I was Zuckerberg’s speechwriter by bhauer on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @11:22AM (#16859143)
Agreed. I am no fan of Zuckerberg and do not use Facebook, but this seems like a non-issue from my point of view.

Perhaps it would have been more palatable if phrased as "People over countries," which is a maxim I may myself use to make a saccharin vision statement. The point is voluntary exchange over the involuntary constraints one endures as part of a country.

From there, evolving to "Market over countries" is also satisfying to me although probably a bit disarming to others. And then another hop takes you to the "Companies over countries" of Zuckerberg. That's not a vision statement I would use, because I have no particular love for companies outside of what they can do for me. But taken simply on absolute measures, I still favor the freedom I enjoy when interacting with companies versus even the most free of countries. In all but the most extreme cases (usually those involving government-provided monopolies) I can disassociate myself with a company with little effort.

Re:I was Zuckerberg’s speechwriter by leereeves on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @11:26AM (#16859187)
"Companies over countries" on it's own might be defensible, but combined with

watching Mark Zuckerberg raise his fist with a slight smile and say, “Domination!” as a way of closing out our weekly Friday all-hands meeting

suggests a dystopian future.