Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive

Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by AlexandrB on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @03:25PM (#23315410)

The Wolf of Wallstreet was a scathing critique of capitalist excess. To think otherwise is to consider a lifestyle where your wife hates you and you crash your car on quaaludes because you've got nothing better going on glamorous.

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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by carapace on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @03:57PM (#23315737)

I didn't see it. All I know about it comes from Christina McDowell's open letter:

https://www.laweekly.com/an-open-letter-to-the-makers-of-the...

> Your film is a reckless attempt at continuing to pretend that these sorts of schemes are entertaining, even as the country is reeling from yet another round of Wall Street scandals. We want to get lost in what? These phony financiers' fun sexcapades and coke binges? Come on, we know the truth. This kind of behavior brought America to its knees.

My point is that we did find it entertaining to the tune of $0.4B, and that doesn't bode well for our general level of moral development.

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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by carapace on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:05PM (#23316967)

FWIW I just found this fascinating tangent: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-perfect-irony-that-t...

> THE PERFECT IRONY THAT ‘THE WOLF OF WALL STREET’ FILM WAS ALSO A REAL-LIFE SCAM

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> How Leo got caught up in a money-laundering scheme that screwed the Malaysian people out of billions.

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