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I laid out my theory on Facebook and Libra on the orange site, for the ritual great downvoting. I think it's fundamentally about the weird situation of having an autocrat in charge of a $500B company. When Pharaoh develops a hobby, the Empire must follow. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=203205…
Whether or not you agree with me, the peculiar way Google and Facebook are immune to shareholder governance mean we have to take the idiosyncratic whims of their founders seriously. But tech/finance journalists hate that, as it's much less fun than 12-dimensional business chess
Surely Pharaoh wouldn't be making us build this enormous pyramid just to be remembered. There must be some diabolically clever secret plan!
In defense of my argument, consider what Zuckerberg's peers are doing. One of them shot a car that he made into space. Another wants to beat him to Mars. Another has a secret bunker in New Zeland. Two more are working to hack death/prevent robot rebellion. These are big children.
When we bring Shakespeare back to life, the Facebook person I want him writing a play about is not Zuckerberg, but Sheryl Sandberg. Grand Vizier to the boy-king!
I stand by my analysis from two years ago. The problem is chuckleheads. idlewords.com/talks/notes_fr… 
