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Seriusly? I can’t imagine him running for a president. What he is gonna do there?

If I were hired to be on the team of twenty people that collectively compose a "candidate," I would have Zuckerberg go hard on pro-data-privacy right off the bat, just to cancel out his personal history. I'd write all of his early speeches to make him "better than Stallman," and once the whole Facebook thing had been forgotten the other 19 people could start their jobs. Accusations that he had abandoned his early platform mid-election could be countered with a heartfelt statement on the importance of other things - and the privacy line could finally slip away in the comfort of the oval office.

I hope nobody falls for that.

Try in vain to prove to himself that his billions aren't just dumb luck and circumstance.

It's just an ego thing. He wants to be "popular" in the same way politicians do. He wants to be at the top of the list of "most powerful people" that those magazines put out.

He's probably super envious of Elon Musk.

Sounds like a Trump-type character flaw.

He has been making headlines regarding the possibility of running: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/15/mark-zuckerberg-could-be-run...

Why are people surprised he wants to run?

>Zuck: I don't know why. They "trust me." Dumb fucks.

Here he exhibits a defining characteristic of politicians.

It's worth noting the difference with Zuckerburg is this: we all suddenly become concerned with our civil liberties when those of our own are directly assaulted: https://theintercept.com/2018/02/05/the-nunes-memo-and-katie...

As I think about it, it seems like it would be pretty weird for the representative of a company trying as hard as possible to be fully international and gather as many users as possible from all over the planet to even try to run for, much less make a serious effort to win, a political position where you represent and are expected to support the interests of the people of one country.

One important thing the Trump presidency is teaching us, is you can have a President that does nothing, and the world does not end (and neither do the US).

The logical consequence is, we probably don't need Presidents.

> The logical consequence is, we probably don't need Presidents.

We don't want a political system that sacrifices resiliency for efficiency. Doing away with the presidency because the system is resilient to his dysfunction is doing exactly that. It's like the mistake of taking a two-node cluster down to one node, because one node is all you need to handle the load.

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