How can any intelligent person create something and not know what the potential is? You create/get rich/go along and rake in the big bucks and then see how your creation is being used for evil and SAY NOTHING/DO NOTHING for years? Being greedy without being accountable/responsible until the sh*hits the fan and the damage is done ain't so hot. Tomorrow Zuck goes before Congress to "splain himself lucy ". Good luck with that. SIGH. How many others like Zuck are there out there having raked in the big bucks and learned what they created sucks and don't give a rat's a**? :(:(:(
Fame and money - the two most sought after commodities in all the world. We idolize those who possess them (I want to be like so-and-so) and even envy them (I wish I had it like so-and-so). Yet what these things do to nearly all those who obtain them is amplify their dark side – massive egos, arrogance, feeling superior to others, vanity.
Mr. Z had no idea his creation would be so successful. But when it was, he reveled in its glory. Boy genius. Revolutionary. Person of the year. The titles stroked his ego. He was famous! And the money … the money just kept pouring in. He was rich! Who cares how his invention might be used, he was rich and famous - the epitome of success!
Fame fades with time. Sitting atop his fortunes, Mr. Z dilly-dallied with his creation, occasionally tweaking it enough to try to keep his name in the limelight. As they do with most things, malcontents began to exploit his creation for their own gain. Mr. Z knew about it, but if he said anything that might make his creation look bad, he might lose some of his fame and money (or, in the words of Gollum – “my precious”). But when foreign countries began to use his creation to deceive its naive users, “the waste material hit the spinning turbine”. He has now become the bad guy (wrong kind of fame). Of course, like most rich people, he’ll find a way to spin it so that he comes out looking good again (just look at the great new security feature I (finally) put in).