Re:Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg Says He Is Accountable as Company ...
by jstx1 on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @05:42PM
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Yes, he’s a billionaire and he’ll be fine anyway. Does accountability mean something only if his life is ruined or he loses everything? I don’t get that line of thinking at all.
Re:Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg Says He Is Accountable as Company ...
by yamtaddle on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @06:01PM
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I mean, if my waking up to find a flat tire on my car causes a lot more actual harm to my life than his "accountability", seems pretty weak and that's still leaves a lot of room short of "life ruined" or "loses everything".
[EDIT] I'm not calling for him to be jailed or something, I'm pointing out that "accountability" that amounts to going from fabulously rich to... still fabulously rich, ain't shit. Hell, part of the motivation for getting rich is precisely that it insulates you from ever experiencing actual harm, so it's entirely expected that this would be the case.
Re:Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg Says He Is Accountable as Company ...
by piva00 on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @05:53PM
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Not ruin but at least something more tangible to lose than just paying your way out of it. Like losing control of the business, decision making powers, could be anything else that he doesn't have vast resources to plug the hole immediately.
Pure financial consequences are meaningless to the ultra-rich.
Re:Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg Says He Is Accountable as Company ...
by yamtaddle on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @06:09PM
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This is a good call. Losing, or giving up, something that you can't trivially get back in short order purely by throwing money at it and telling a lackey to go fix it, is an actual consequence. Needing to add together slightly fewer poor countries' GDPs to equal his net worth is meaningless.
If someone who's already got $10m in the bank would happily trade their success for your "consequences", I dunno, just seems... fake. Like playing poker with quarters—sure you "care" but losing doesn't actually hurt in any meaningful way if your total stakes were $10 or whatever.