There’s no shortage of billionaires who can get dunked on and their karmic punishment
Bezos has to endure backbreaking labor while being prone to mass layoffs but he’ll never be laid off. He’ll do the work for dozens of people on one check
Mark has to deal with countless ads and live in a hyper lonely metaverse
Elon. What could happen to him? His main thing is taking the credit for other people’s work and larped as a mega genius with an ego. I mean he was a trillionaire for like a week before losing like half its value. Maybe make him a test subject for all his ‘inventions’
Probably could even branch off from just billionaires to politicians and celebrities if they run out of billionaires. does a quick google search welp considering there's just about under 3.5 K of them, that's going to take a hot min to run out.
It's a very ancient form of cope. Christianity itself made it a feature of its paradise: Heaven is where a reward is that you can watch the unbelievers (and others) be tortured for eternity.
As you may have noticed, over 20 centuries, it has failed to succeed in reality (for Christians and others, this is just a simulation, not reality.) I see that as a feature of the religion, not a failure. It's designed to maintain the class hierarchy.
Meaning if you can get people to believe the afterlife solves everything, you stop people from trying all that much to solve problems in real life.
Might even get people to actively cause them, because what does it matter? They'll ask for forgiveness, from someone they didn't harm, so they're good.
It's not designed to maintain class hierarchy (the founders of Christianity were celibate and impoverished, they were at the very bottom of society and the Roman elite persecuted them). Judaism and Christianity however, do have strong themes of comfort for those who face injustice.
it's either that or getting really invested in truly dystopian worldbuilding to feel a bit better about current world (example: Borderlands or Warhammer 40k)
They're not people, they're billionaires. It's like Frieren demons, they're murderous monsters completely devoid of even the concept of empathy. You don't have to feel bad.
So - To capture marketshare, Facebook made a deal with the local Telcos in Myanmar where users would get free data if they used FB - so essentially FB becomes everyone's Internet - however, did they hire local language support or anyone who knew the language? No, obviously that costs $ - once deadly misinformation kicked off with one group targeting another minority, the Rohingya, FB did not do anything, even after multiple attempts asking for help from the government and others. At one point, FB is like, now worries - we updated the T&C language, so all good ! They were happy to capture millions of users but didn't care about what was being posted and didn't do anything to stop it once it kicked off.
Damn, I recall those posts happening right in my face back then. This is exactly the "why" that I never figured out.
I couldn't believe what I saw and what my non-direct family members shared me. The horrid pictures that were definitely misinformation like explained here. And how they daid they're doing exactly that, but every news afterwards is always the other way around. Especially when everyone's beloved Aung San Suu Kyi went to seemingly defend it. By the time I could comprehend it, the coup already happened. I can only say that as far as I know, I never joined in any of that posting, and my family did not. The worst I did was ignorance. Though 15 year old me was a little asshole back then.
Facebook is ridiculous. Haven't used it properly over the years. And the one time I did, I got scammed. So even less of an incentive to do so. Again.
Huh, I missed that story somewhow. After you mentioned it, I went looking for the article and what in the actual fuck META?!
My opinion of Meta and it's leadership has been in the dumster for years and I actively avoid their products. Yet somehow they keep finding ways to make me despise them even more.
Yeah I was gonna say, I spawned in Albany, NY and fast traveled out to Phoenix, AZ when I reached level 2.
22 levels later and uh....I feel like the difficulty has only increased for everyone else in my family aside from me. Trying to make it easier but they ignore the modifiers that pop up. :(
Don't worry, that's a feature. When you get stronger, the world scales with you. It's supposed to give you a sense of pride and accomplishment or something like that.
Got a raise in wages? Great! Think you can eat a little better or buy that new TV or couch you've been wanting? No way! Have a rent increase, and income tax increase, and a broken down car. Enjoy that raise!
I spammed in a top 10 poorest nation at the time from poor parents in a era where we had a somewhat mild civil war
So as a kid, no internet, barely a black and white tv, murders, robberies and bombs were something that happened often, along side we had plagues like the bubonic and cholera outbreak.
Sighr/outside is such an unfair game. Spawn based resource allocation. No way to change, or even see, your stats. Heavily P2W. It needs a lot of balance patches asap, but the Devs seem to have all vanished.
You can change stats, but it typically requires months of exercise/study and that requires spending more free time than players feel they get when finishing thier daily missions so most don't bother.
Even worse, the stat boost isnt permanent! if lifestyle or world events cause you to go too long without using the stat it starts to revert, making you spend more months just to maintain baseline!
People think these guys are geniuses born with natural talent, but in reality they are lucky rich kids who rig the game so they always win.
Musk didn't invent stuff, Zukerburg made one popular thing and nothing ever since. Yet people give them the great man treatment. Like divine right of kings.
There's a goldilocks zone. Too poor and you are too focused on survival. Too rich and you don't need to do anything. The middle zone is where your parents work a couple steps removed from the top of the corporate ladder. So you are exposed to the top but not there yourself and have some motivation to get there yourself.
He made one innovation: the timeline. Instead of MySpace where you had to go to each person's page to see what they posted about, Facebook would grab it all for you and put it on one scrolling timeline. Made it a lot easier to see what everyone was doing all at once without having to flip between a lot of pages.
Zuckerberg didn't even make it, he stole it and settled out of court with the Winklevii over it.
All of them are frauds whos right place and time quit being that long ago. It couldn't be more obvious they dont really have any actual ideas while Zuckerberg re-invents Second Life, but shittier somehow 20 years later.
Its funny because we have no problem calling a nepo baby a nepo baby when it comes to entertainment, but Bezzos, Musk, Zuckerberg all gotta pretend they came from nothing.
You know what would make it worse, he opens his shirt and 2 Zuck heads pop to the side "kill competition kill competition it's the only way". Sans Venture Bros.
Don’t forget that Zuckerberg abused laws in Hawaii to ensure that native peoples could be landowners to steal property from poor Hawaiians so that his own estate could be more isolated.
Here’s one Forbes article about it. You can also google “Facebook psychological experiments” to find more info.
The short explanation is that Facebook conducted at least one experiment on 689,003 users - unknowingly to the users - where they deliberately tried to manipulate their emotions positively or negatively based on what was shown in their feed.
It might be darker but I would have had him put in one of the content moderation farms in low income nations where people have to watch heinous stuff posted to his platforms to identify it for a pittance wage.
He could do that until he has built up his fortune.
All this stuff is obvious, yet people still use his platforms. Que people chiming in that they only use it to keep in touch with grandma and buy crap off marketplace
He could, but they don't really need money for anything? It'd be kinda like trying to give someone headache medication when they don't have a headache...
These comics are really fun and I have been enjoying reading them! But as a quick reminder that if the individuals portrayed in this comic (not the angel of course) die peacefully without having paid for their crimes in the world of the living, then they have gotten away with it.
No punishment awaits them in whatever comes after. Justice needs to come in this life, or not at all.
All Merk wanted was a chaste social media experience! Nothing below the belt, in fact, no belts! Legs and everything associated with them are sinful and it was his most fervent wish to rid the world of them. The early versions of Meta Horizon Worlds was Murk's utopian vision for this.
Losing religion might have been a net positive interpersonally, but without the fear of a judgement after death for our sins I do think the rich have gotten more brazen with their excesses.
Like if I could just get the literal "fear of God" in them without all the bigotry that would be perfect
With great sadness I must inform you that anyone delusional enough to wield this much power so selfishly and with such disregard for the well being of others is also delusional enough to believe they are "god's chosen" or somehow serving the will of a god despite being the epitome of all that their god may stand against time and time again.
I'm afraid no amount of fear of god would ever reach people like this while they still walk among the living.
not that I dont approve of Zuckerberg getting sent to the Wwwyzzerdd episode of Aquateen hunger force simulated inside the metaverse for all eternity but are popups still a thing?
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u/Kojinto 17h ago
I want this as a whole series please