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Mark Zuckerberg Hits the Road To Meet Regular Folks -- With a Few Conditions (foxbusiness.com)
Mark Zuckerberg is trying to understand America, so he's embarked on a journey to meet people like hockey moms and steelworkers who don't typically cross his path. But there are rules to abide by if you are an ordinary person about to meet an extraordinary entrepreneur. From a report: Rule One: You probably won't know Mr. Zuckerberg is coming. Rule Two: If you do know he's coming, keep it to yourself. Rule Three: Be careful what you reveal about the meeting. While the Facebook CEO has built a social network that inspired people around the world to share the most intimate details about their personal lives, his team goes to extraordinary lengths to keep his movements under wraps and control how he is perceived. Midway through a "personal challenge" to travel to 30 states he'd never visited, the 33-year old aims "to talk to more people about how they're living, working and thinking about the future," he wrote in January on his Facebook page. Among those people was Kyle McKasson, manager of the Wilton Candy Kitchen, a century-old shop on the town square in Wilton, Iowa. He was at work one Monday afternoon in June when two men and a woman dressed in jeans and button-down shirts entered the store, which is a regular stop on Iowa's presidential campaign circuit.
Pretty much. Only a privileged aspie like him would need to go on a 'tour' to 'understand' America. I'm amazed the ego on that douche fits within the confines of the earth's stratosphere.
What the hell are you talking about? There are many talents, yes, but our society values targets not with money but with economic reciprocation. In effect, if you are fantastic cook, and I use your services over and over again, I'll trade you (in my case: so many lines of code or a complete solution). We don't value money. We value what money represents. That is a trade of our goods and services for a bit of yours. Many people have traded with Mark Zuckerburg for him to have achieved the success he has. He has come up with many solutions to problems and has traded his solution for a vast multitude of their services, represented in modern economies as currency.
His ability to solve problems and lead an effective team at solving problems is his capability. Here he is saying: "why isn't everyone else as capable at generating economic prosperity, maybe this is a problem my team can solve." And you bash him upside the head. Would you rather he stashed his wealth away and squandered it like an Arab Sheik? He is doing what I would hope everyone with talents like that does: use their skills to try and better mankind.