> That big new Mark Zuckerberg article is infuriating
> LINK · "Mark - A journey to the heart of history’s largest nonterritorial empire" by Jeremy Stern
This is really lovely prose that I enjoyed reading but boy is it a lousy argument.
Goodness me, he seems to frown, doesn't Mark really have it tough and isn't he trying so very hard?
There's a moment when Mark's mother says:
"I mean, you can’t change what people do with the tools you give them. It doesn’t make the maker a bad person just because people do bad things with what you offer, right?"
...and that idea is never mentioned again. Instead we just get Mark as Augustus and how tough that is. Because Mark's company keeps making money, so he's obviously successful. Because that's all that matters.