But when it comes to Mark Zuckerberg, I'm increasingly convinced that he didn't acquire his worldview through the self-inflicted brain damage of his long exposure to the back-end of a vast social media system. I think the causal arrow points in the other direction: I think that Zuck founded Facebook *because* he doesn't really believe that other people are truly *real*, at least not as real as he is.
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Cory Doctorow
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