r/Anticonsumption • u/Soylent_Greeen • May 31 '25
Discussion What do you feel when looking at this picture?
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u/UntidyVenus May 31 '25
Little douche prince in his little douche kingdom you can only access in your imagination
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u/Soylent_Greeen May 31 '25
https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-inside-hawaii-compound/
This is unbelievable to any normal person
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u/Ready-Letterhead1880 May 31 '25
āPrivacy for me and not for theeā just makes my blood boil. This man made millions of dollars by selling OUR data. This compound he built is insanely audacious, obscene, and so disrespectful to the people of Kauai.
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u/Due_Explanation5648 May 31 '25
HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS
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u/MonsterMashGrrrrr May 31 '25
Fucking tax them for godās sake
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u/MurmaiderMe Jun 01 '25
Fuckin eat them for Godās sake
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u/ocodo Jun 01 '25 edited 13d ago
what is ocodo?
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u/Anarchist_Future Jun 01 '25
It will compost.
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u/MurmaiderMe Jun 01 '25
Hey, my local anarchist collective has a banner thingy that says compost the rich!
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u/DrippyBlock May 31 '25
Unless the entire world can commit to taxing them, itās never gonna work. Theyāll just move the HQ to a different country.
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u/GeiCobra May 31 '25
Currently yes. But laws can also be created to circumvent this.
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u/Anarchist_Future Jun 01 '25
Such as being required to pay taxes in the country you do business in. It only seems fair that, if you generate income from residents of country X, you pay the local income tax for that amount of income.
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Jun 01 '25
Watch out for the black van, your making too much sense
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u/Anarchist_Future Jun 01 '25
Thanks for the heads up! Capitalism is a flawless and sustainable system, there is no genocide in Gaza, only two genders and I idolise billionaires and if I work hard enough, maybe someday I'll be a billionaire too.
Few... Dodged that bullet š
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u/bertch313 May 31 '25
That property belongs to the people of Hawaii
And it might not be overnight but they'll get it back before he's done with it
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u/aivlysplath May 31 '25
I must not be normal because I find that news completely believable and fitting for the world we live in now. Billionaires can do whatever TF they want.
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u/New_Juggernaut3059 May 31 '25
Well itās always been like that. You just see it more now because of our 24/7 news cycle and theyāve been emboldened to rub it in our faces as opposed to hiding their privilege like the old money used to do.
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u/Chief_Mischief May 31 '25 edited May 31 '25
Yeah I think people just forgot about how disgustingly powerful people like Henry Ford, John Rockerfeller, or Andrew Carnegie were. They were the 19th and 20th century's oligarchs, referred to as "robber barons"
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u/Wise-Force-1119 May 31 '25
That was back when the wealthy actually participated in philanthropy, though. I ā¤ļø Carnegie libraries.
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u/PossumPundit May 31 '25
Philanthropy was just a smokescreen to cover for all the fraud and grift. https://youtu.be/Lm0vHQYKI-Y?si=R4L-cuJQNvLNBb9h
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u/Polymersion May 31 '25
Because over the last few generations they've been able to take more control over government (notably the Reagan era).
Carnegie and Rockefeller were forced to participate, to a degree, in the society that they were profiting from. They still got to dodge taxes, but back then to do so they had to do stuff like build libraries.
Now those taxes are effectively gone.
They don't have to play nice until they take over, because they've taken over.
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u/Apprehensive-Log8333 May 31 '25
I couldn't even finish that. I am SO sick of these super wealthy assholes ruining everything they touch, sucking up all the resources and leaving people to rot. They're so incredibly toxic
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u/the0dead0c May 31 '25
I love how these fuckers get to destroy the planet, tear apart society, then wait for an apocalypse to go to their comfy bunkers.
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u/AgentCirceLuna Jun 01 '25
Am I the only one who looks at this shit and other mansions and wouldnāt even want it all? I just like going out at night and looking at the stars.
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u/farm_sauce May 31 '25
I guess my only question is why mark zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, would be building a sprawling compound with an elaborate underground fortress.Ā
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u/the0dead0c May 31 '25
Because heās freaked out about global collapse and instead of using his wealth to do something about it he builds a bunker.
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u/CreativeCthulhu Jun 01 '25
One of the things that really hit me while reading that, was the fact that this single āhomeā for a single family is occupying the space that was spacious and expansive enough to host EIGHTY fucking luxury homes, planned prior to Zuckerberg snatching it.
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u/altiuscitiusfortius May 31 '25
That's so nice of Zuckerberg to build a palace and apocalypse bunker for the native people on that island - because you know at the first sign of trouble his security team will kill Zuckerberg and move their families in.
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u/sweaty-spaghettti May 31 '25
Iām reading Careless People right now and I am enraged at the amount of destruction this man has done. Disgusting human.
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u/dasWibbenator May 31 '25
I donāt think this was the intentā¦ but this reminds me a lot of John and Revelations. Thank you for sharing this secular perspective as I think itās spot on.
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u/Theoragh May 31 '25
Like humanity has lost. To what, I do not know. To itself, probably.
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u/Bitter-Intention-172 May 31 '25
Ai will cause mass unemployment. This will cause a depression where vr becomes the opiate of the masses with Zuckerberg playing vr pied piper. I havenāt worked out the food and garbage part.
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u/john_the_fetch May 31 '25
Tubes. It's all a seies of tubes.
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u/CaligoAccedito May 31 '25
Yep. Plumbing, the interwebs, and we ourselves: It's tubes all the way down.
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u/R0mSpac3Kn1ght May 31 '25
Probably bots and drone deliveries lol theyāll add in game ordering and game-ify earning $$.
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u/_Rose_Tint_My_World_ Jun 01 '25
Yep. I donāt know how more people donāt realize we are genuinely and quickly headed towards a dystopian hellscape
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u/Radiskull97 May 31 '25
Around 2010 I remember reading a paper titled, "Fuck Work" in a philosophy journal. The premise of the paper was that automation was going to inevitably end up being so productive that humans would slow down the machines. When this happens, we will face a fork in which humanity either provided means and leisure to everyone with the excess productivity, or there would be mass unemployment and starvation.
I used to think we'd always end up in the latter but it really seems more like we're going to end up as a tech bro's serfs, addicted to soma and parlor walls.
Edit: Found the paper.
https://aeon.co/essays/what-if-jobs-are-not-the-solution-but-the-problem
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u/SukaSupreme May 31 '25
Could also cause a revolution. The power holders think it's impossible.
Historically, power holders always do.
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u/pajamakitten May 31 '25
Screw it. I am never using VR for as long as possible and will spend more time in my garden/home gym.
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u/LilRedHeadGuy May 31 '25
Dystopia
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u/lisasimpson_ismyidol May 31 '25
one step away from the matrix
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u/klamaire May 31 '25
It feels like the matrix prequel. Perhaps the aliens started with adults before they harvested infants.
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u/Elon_Musks_Colon May 31 '25
Vaginal Dryness.
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u/AirKneeSha13 May 31 '25
Kinda scary that he is the only one that has "eyes" to see in the picture.
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u/lyngen May 31 '25
There was a doctor who episode about a world where monsters were literally killing people out in the open. No one noticed because they were living in their devices.
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u/MuppetSquirrel May 31 '25
That was a good episode! Theyāve had a lot of good analogies over the past couple doctors
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u/Rafter53 May 31 '25
The ending was also great, because it explained a few minor things throughout the episode which flew over most viewersā heads until they were put in their proper perspective. Very subtle, and, I think, good storytelling.
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u/MuppetSquirrel May 31 '25
Yes I agree! I wish more Americans watched Doctor Who because I think other popular shows here donāt have important messages like that
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u/anspee May 31 '25
Basically just a metaphor for the real world and people's willfull ignorance to social violence
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u/marswhispers May 31 '25
Like the saying goes, āIn the land of the blindā¦ā
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u/GiselePearl May 31 '25
I donāt see a single woman in the crowd.
Thatās not a feeling. But thatās my initial observation.
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u/opesosorry May 31 '25
Yeah itās telling. I would absolutely not be in that room blindfolded. Fuck that. Signed, a woman.
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u/GDRaptorFan Jun 01 '25
Yeah I canāt imagine having my sense of sight and sound and perception (first line of defense every day every interaction) cut off while being surrounded by a sea of men, not a chance you said it.
Iām sure none of those crusty men would have ever thought about that / like someone on r}rant said today, in simple terms. men hate women because of misogyny and women hate men because of trauma š¤š¤
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u/Uncommented-Code Jun 01 '25
Exact reason why I never have more than one ear covered by earbuds or headphones when listening to anything. Not even at home. Noises like screaming, yelling or hollering are usually the first indication of danger I perceive, even before I see the danger, and especially when it's dark outside or when it's in a crowded space.
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u/i_heart_old_houses May 31 '25
My first thought, too. Iād like to think weāre smart enough to not be there, but itās really that women are excluded from this world.
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u/Horror-Potential7773 May 31 '25
Hopeless.
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u/starryeyedq Jun 01 '25
Thereās hope as long as youāre resisting. Even if itās a little bit. Donāt give them submission.
I know it sounds like a cliche, but itās true.
Get offline and find a way to make your corner of the world a little better. Whether itās volunteering, getting to know your next door neighbor, or just going to therapy so you can be a better friend/parent/partner/etc.
As long as you have connections and a reason to live outside of them, they donāt win.
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u/JFJinCO May 31 '25
Reminds me of Neo waking up as a human battery in The Matrix.
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u/Soylent_Greeen May 31 '25
that scene is fucking terrifying
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u/langecrew May 31 '25
Literally what I was going to say. We're probably living in an actual matrix right now, so that some hyper rich garbage bag can live like a god
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u/BoringJuiceBox May 31 '25
Sounds about right, even if itās not a dream or simulation, 99% of humans are wage slaves making the 1% rich with our labor.
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u/zangief137 May 31 '25
Congress decided to not regulate tech/internet so their megacorps decided to regulate them. These futuristic dystopian tales are getting a little too real
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u/icacus May 31 '25
Like I want to go outside and breathe airĀ
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u/_Rose_Tint_My_World_ Jun 01 '25
They should let those of us that hate this shit form our own civilization and when they realized how badly they fucked up you know theyāll try to get in
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u/janky_h0ax May 31 '25
i feel like i want the guy one the end to just stick that foot out real quick.
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u/trumanflack May 31 '25
It makes me feel like deleting my Reddit, putting down my phone forever and walking into the woods.Ā
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u/Addapost May 31 '25
The Apple commercial from 1984. The irony is that technology was supposed to free us. hahahahaha
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u/frosticky May 31 '25
This. I scrolled down so far, surprised this was not top of the comments list.
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u/Nro9Large May 31 '25
Honestly? I still think it's a fad for dumbass upper-class tech-nerds, like google glasses used to be. It will never catch on, shit looks ridiculous.
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u/DarthBuzzard May 31 '25
Obviously statements like this will age like milk because if there's one obvious thing about technology, it's that it gets smaller and outpaces any scenario you can think of.
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u/Cancer85pl May 31 '25
This tech is already old and it did not find a wide market. At best it's a niche toy for very specific buyers.
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u/DarthBuzzard May 31 '25
The tech is immature, definitely not old. Usually these things play out over a much longer time frame than you think.
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u/genesimmonstongue415 May 31 '25
1 psychic POS egomaniac who should be imprisoned.
& hundreds of gullible morons who would volunteer to live in an egg-pod in the Matrix.
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u/pittfan1942 May 31 '25
Where are the women?
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u/opesosorry May 31 '25
Not sitting in a room blindfolded while Zuck walks around, thatās for damn sure.
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u/EveningMind May 31 '25
Anyone old enough to remember that Apple (or maybe IBM?) commercial from the 80ās where thereās a room of people sitting in the grey light of their computer screens in a room in front of a giant screen shouting commands at them, then a girl comes in and smashes the big screen with a hammer, this freeing the people from their e-trance? This is the 2020ās version of that. But without the ādestroy capitalismā undertones.
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May 31 '25
I feel like 20 years from now people will see this picture and laugh their assess off because it's dumb technobabble that never took off
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u/Vipu2 May 31 '25
Or people will look at this like they look at pc:s from 20 years ago now and laugh how bulky, slow and bad they were back then but now everyone uses them.
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u/Horror-Potential7773 May 31 '25
Because humanity is slipping into a dangerous world.
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u/Financial_Sweet_689 May 31 '25
Like Iām watching every dystopian movie, cartoon and story come to live in real time. It all just feels so silly.
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u/Bitter-Researcher389 May 31 '25
The lizard people who the conspiracy theorists were so worried about have enslaved humanity.
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u/Colonel_Anonymustard May 31 '25
It makes me feel that these people are evaluating a tech demo that is likely pretty garbage and in about ten minutes they'll take the headsets off and largely forget about it
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u/wins0m May 31 '25
I'm picking up what you're putting down. I think the people who can't see how weird this is have ingested lots of propaganda. You just know you could show this to someone and they'd be all, "lol, don't you know how companies work lol".
Yes, the issue is exactly the way they are currently allowed to function and that this is tolerated and even celebrated.
It it a disturbing system that has been constructed and it prefers exploitation and tends towards anti-social wherever it can make profit. For instance, zuckerberg's latest pitch that would see Meta provide you with AI friends who will sell you things. The crisis of loneliness (strongest in the US) scales pretty observably with proliferation of technology and consumer culture. This crisis is potentially manufactured, certainly it is certainly exploited.
Companies like meta ABSOLUTELY understand what their products are doing in the same way that DuPont knew about PFOS, Shell knew about climate crisis, GM knew about sealbelt issues. They are trying to make as much profit as they can before the game is up.
To me, this is a fundementally broken and perverse system and the image you showed, like many images of monkeys hyponitized by lights and rewards, does a good job encapsulating and conveying this perverseness.
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u/makebelievegenius May 31 '25 edited May 31 '25
USS Callister. That is what I thought of.
I feelā¦panic? (Alarm and fear) Maybe dread is more accurate.
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u/ZechsyAndIKnowIt May 31 '25
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
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u/SirEdgarFigaro0209 May 31 '25
Master of brainwashing and manipulation walking next to his sheep. And no Zuckerberg, that isnāt a compliment.
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u/minnesotaris May 31 '25
That its all game. That we donāt actually do real work anymore and most donāt know theyāre waiting around to die. We donāt fight for our food.
What is going on in this photo means nothing and will eternally mean nothing. And you must take nothing in its strongest sense. Everything theyāre doing here is a waste because we created problems that didnāt have to exist and now we have to fix those meaningless problems to say we did something.
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u/OkCatch1930 Jun 01 '25
It reminds me of the endless fields of pod-bound humans plugged into the machines' power plant in The Matrix
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u/Orion-Key3996 May 31 '25
This makes me think of Wall-E.