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Oh, please, you can't be that gullible to believe Zuckerberg's marketing -- a guy who sued 300 people to build his Hawaii mansion.

With people like you no wonder he gets away with all his crap.

Destroying a society, addicting people/kids, violating privacy, generating inequality consequences -- interesting large scale problems indeed -- FB is working on CAUSING them. REALLY smart people wouldn't do this.

But then, who cares if you make big money. For allowing this the US deserves everything it gets.

Proper education no longer exists. It has been replaced by vocational training. And FANG dropping college education altogether suggests that even that will go away.

AI will obviate the need for human intellect altogether -- if machines and algorithms will do all the "thinking", why bother?

If you want to know how Trump got elected, why the US is in steep decline, ruled by corporate monopolies and oligarchs and on the verge of tyranny, look no further.

Facebook is only partially to blame. The real responsibility is of the society as a whole: the atomization and loneliness of the society which FB exploited; the public and government that permitted digital corporations to do more or less what they want, and the dismantling of all the protections that existed from concentration of power in monopolies and oligopolies.

It's really disturbing how people complain about what these companies are doing -- what did they expect would happen given the above?

Given that SQL DBMSs are so far from a true RDBMS, imagine where we would have been today if true RDBMSs rather than SQL ones had been implemented.

Education is developing people's intellect and reasoning ability, turning them into members of civilized society. It is not job training.

And the fact that the former has been replaced with the latter shows: the US is no longer a society, let alone a civilized one.

Well rounded education? No such thing anymore.

Experience is gained on the job, not during education.

You mean when there was still academia. There isn't anymore. It's been replaced with vocational training.

Education is NOT a piece of paper for job hunting. It is development of intellect. Most coders without education have none.

It's the conflation of education with job training that is pushing America down the drain and Trump is only one consequence of it.

The purpose of education is not to prepare for jobs, but to produce knowledgeable, reasoning, civilized, compassionate human beings capable of critical, independent thinking, which is what America most needs, not ignorant coders who can be manipulated to blindly program everything in sight, totally unaware of the inhuman, oppressive and exploitative implications.