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The Infuriating Innocence of Mark Zuckerberg
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-infuriating-innocence-of-mark-zuckerberg
– By Stephen Marche
'...Still, it’s an odd face to despise—milquetoast, banal, unthreatening. The ambient dislike for Zuckerberg demonstrates just how deeply the early decades of the twenty-first century have fostered hostility toward tech executives. For decades, innovation has been treated, by the public and the government alike, as a benefit in and of itself. And for good reason. In the post-war era, innovation created jobs and led to growth that benefitted the middle class. Technological change is by no means a universal benefit anymore. Its primary economic effect has been an explosion of income inequality. Its primary social effect is a shredding of the fabric that sustains human community. #Facebook is an enormous addiction machine that creates depression and spreads disinformation...'

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