I know this is an outre sentiment here but I kind of like Mark Zuckerberg.

[cali]

He seems a pretty level headed wonky type who isn't completely caught up in having a gazillion bucks. Yes, he just bought a 7 million dollar house in Palo Alto but it's not some mega mansion. He doesn't own a private jet or private islands or any of the trappings of many of the super rich. He married his girlfriend of 7 years. She's just graduated from Med School specializing in pediatrics.

Zuckerberg has pledged that he will donate at least half of his fortune.

He came from a family that valued brains. Yes, he was fortunate and privileged growing up. His mother is a psychiatrist and his dad is a dentist, but he didn't come from an uber wealthy family.

I just can't get worked up over him.

Slam away.

Pic of his house:

http://money.msn.co.nz/slideshowajax/163000/mark-zuckerbergs-modest-life.slideshow

[gateley]

1. He seems to be pretty level-headed, as you say. I have no problem with him at all. I can't think

of anything he's done that's really rotten, except the privacy crap, and who knows what we would have decided in his place?

[rox63]

2. I think he's ok as well

Doesn't seem to be too full of himself. Of course, I might think differently if I knew him personally. But from all outward appearance, he seems like a decent guy.

[XemaSab]

3. BURN THE WITCH!

Actually, I agree with you.

He didn't make his fortune off of child labor or mountaintop removal.

He built something fun that people like.

[BeyondGeography]

4. I believe the correct spelling is oohtray

[monmouth]

5. I loved it when he showed up at Wall Street NOT in a business suit and tie. Got all those uptight

money types in a fizzle over that. I also like his practical house...

[ZombieHorde]

6. I have no problems with him, but I don't much about him either, so that is not saying much. nt

[datasuspect]

7. i don't personally know him. never ate a meal with him, we never drank beer together

so i have no opinion.

it would be like me saying, i love lamp.

[leveymg]

8. Do you think Sorkin's portrait was unfair? Do you like FaceBook's biz model?

Do you not mind being data-mined and profiled (I know, half the web does it, but none quite so profitably)? Are his giveaways to privatize the Newark Public Schools appealing to you?

Most highly successful creeps who do great harm have some human qualities. So, that's not an escape clause, in itself.

So, what's to really like about Mark Zuckerberg other than his typically laid-back nerd persona, and tech industry wardrobe? Then there's all his money . . .

[cali]

11. It's widely acknowledged to be fiction

And I explained what I find (mildly) likable in the op.

[leveymg]

21. The movie or the biz model? ;-) As for MZs house,

I like it and it shows modest good taste.

I get your point.

[Lint Head]

9. As billionaires go, he's one.

[Booster]

10. So far, he hasn't done anything to make me dislike him except maybe make me a little envious.

Seems like an ok kind of guy to me.

[TBF]

12. Pretty home -

for me it's not about individuals. The problems with wealth are systemic.

[Yavin4]

13. I Have No Beef with Mark Zuckerberg, and I think that Facebook is a fine service

I just don't get why it's worth multiple billions of dollars, and why he's worth multiple billions of dollars. I believe that it's more hype than substance.

[KurtNYC]

14. Don't know the man but he should not have allowed all the lying spam on Facebook

bad business -- "Your friend answered a question about you" -- total bull. Other services block spam and virus. Facebook monetizes on spam and aps that act like viruses.

[Nye Bevan]

15. He's created a boatload of jobs.

And made millionaires of many of his employees.

[JI7]

18. how did he create a lot of jobs ?

[Nye Bevan]

19. By hiring people, would be my guess (nt)

[leveymg]

22. FB only has 3200 employees. If the $100B raised in the FaceBook IPO had gone into reviving US auto

it would easily have resulted in 100 times as many direct job creations. Even Apple has 47,000 employees.

If you want jobs creation, this isn't your ticket. Just the opposite is true, in fact.

Sorry nobody has pointed this out.

[Nye Bevan]

25. He only created 3200 jobs? Well that just sucks.

What a loser.

[leveymg]

26. If you want to look at it another way, he destroyed 316,800 jobs in higher employment industries

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And, that's the reason Facebook is now the Darling of Wall Street. It produces profits for investors without requiring expensive infrastructure investment to create tangible goods, like manufacturing, and it doesn't employ a lot of expensive, demanding people.

[Nye Bevan]

27. Mark Zuckerberg destroyed hundreds of thousands of jobs!

Facebook is the Darling of Wall Street!

Threads about economics on DU do produce some truly bizarre posts.

[leveymg]

28. I used to work on the Floor of the NYSE, and have had an article published in

Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities Magazine on the structural causes of what creates bubbles and seemingly erratic swings in equities prices. I was also published in Foreign Policy about the risks of securitization, assets overvaluation, and the attendant social costs of imperfect market mechanisms for allocation of capital. I know something about what I'm saying - and people who understand the subject don't think that such observations are so truly bizarre. I haven't heard a single substantial idea from you - do you actually have anything to say on these subjects, or are you just a blank wall in an echo chamber?

[Tikki]

16. He is of 0 (zero) consequence in my life.

...and that I like about him.


Tikki

[JI7]

17. i like him personally also, but the same was true of Steve Jobs, i might not agree with some of the

things concerning their business.

but i liked how they personally lived their lives. i like how they don't feel the need to show off and impress .

[hifiguy]

20. Hey, he invented something a lot of people think is a better mousetrap.

I don't use Facebook, but clearly hundreds of millions of people do and find it useful. There are a lot worse ways to make money in the world. I have no beef with him.

[Ron Obvious]

23. Suckerborg! n/t

[just1voice]

24. I like George Soros, Oprah and several other of my billionaire friends

but only when they eat the meat they kill themselves, otherwise they're just all caught up in "having a gazillion bucks". I also like broccoli, sports and bunny wabbits.