Finally, a Real Creator is Person of the Year

Re:Finally, a Real Creator is Person of the Year by brudgers on Sunday January 09, 2011 @06:27PM (#2086781)

If Facebook is among "man's most delightful and most sublime experiences," please shoot me now.

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Re:Finally, a Real Creator is Person of the Year by kmfrk on Sunday January 09, 2011 @06:57PM (#2086851)

“Zuckerberg is quickly learning the cold reality that making the world a better place for human relations with your grand idea runs headlong into stifling government rules and regulations that short-circuit voluntary exchanges and gum up the division of labor. While government wants to treat everyone like uniform and interchangeable ants, humans are unique, as Murray Rothbard wrote in Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays. "It is the fact that these unique personalities need freedom for their full development that constitutes one of the major arguments for freedom."

Forcing Facebook to be publicly traded and sending Zuckerberg to Washington with hat in hand, like Bill Gates before him, is more tragic than Jenkins knows. Rothbard pointed out that "only the free man can be fully individuated and, can be fully human." Investment, mobility, the division of labor, creativity, entrepreneurship, and ultimately wealth creation depend upon individual freedom. Dotting i's and crossing t's for the SEC won't spur the creative process. Next, valuable resources and brainpower will be stationed in the nation's capitol to play defense.”

With friends like mises.org, who needs enemies.

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Re:Finally, a Real Creator is Person of the Year by slantyyz on Sunday January 09, 2011 @06:45PM (#2086813)

I'm not even remotely a fan of Zuckerberg, Facebook, the Facebook culture or even the article, but one thing is for sure... I can't argue with the headline.

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Re:Finally, a Real Creator is Person of the Year by loup-vaillant on Sunday January 09, 2011 @06:55PM (#2086842)

I can. Facebook is basically web hosting with to let you do blogging, e-mail, and instant messaging. Sorta. And third parties can provide more features, like online games.

So basically, Facebook centralizes things that already existed in a more distributed form. I call that predation, not creation.

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Re:Finally, a Real Creator is Person of the Year by wmf on Sunday January 09, 2011 @07:26PM (#2086934)

I've made that same argument, but... how did Facebook get its initial critical mass of users if it provides nothing new? There must be some reason all those college students signed up for it.

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Re:Finally, a Real Creator is Person of the Year by brudgers on Sunday January 09, 2011 @07:49PM (#2086989)

Facebook initially offered a more socially exclusive version of MySpace (i.e. college students). By doing so they were able to tap into established social networks - e.g. campus organizations such as clubs, fraternities and sororities as well as the general sense of community created by the US college system through inter-collegiate athletics.

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