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Re:Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not ... by grecy on Thursday October 28, 2021 @04:53PM (#29031844)
> where are the front page Vice pieces, Washington Post articles, or NYT exposés when Johnson and Johnson sells 33,000 bottles of baby power with asbestos in them?

No, no, no. J&J is a good American company. Family values. Takes care of it's employees like family. Good for the economy. Ma & Pa Values.

They're nothing like free-and-footloose wild Facebook.

/s

Of course, that's the image they want everyone to believe, and old money companies work very, very hard to continue that.

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Re:Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not ... by iamstupidsimple on Thursday October 28, 2021 @05:17PM (#29032122)
This is the crux of the debate in my opinion - it's old money (finance, journalism, entertainment) vs new money (tech) that threatens to eat all their businesses alive. This is nothing more than a power struggle between the ownership classes.
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Re:Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not ... by JetSpiegel on Thursday October 28, 2021 @09:02PM (#29034060)
How is J&J threatened by Facebook?

Will this Third Life be so addictive, people will let their children shit themselves and use no baby powder?

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Re:Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not ... by iamstupidsimple on Friday October 29, 2021 @06:41AM (#29037085)
I mean technology in a general sense. But for J&J specifically, there's always the chance that a fast moving biotechnology startup will outcompete them.
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