He's eager for anything to help him gain more wealth, because he doesn't have enough yet and enough is never enough.

All these stories about VR, then metverse/crypto, then ai, and now gambling. It seems like Zuckerberg is trying to recreate the early success he had in an emerging field but, at a fundamental level, does not understand that facebook was successful largely due to luck and timing.

Sometimes I think America cannot be a good place to live until the myth of the "tech genius" is thoroughly broken.

Loot boxes and gatcha games:

Anyone working for meta is a piece of shit.

He's blown hundreds of billions on his VR and AI shit. He's desperate.

Meta plans to sell unused AI compute capacity, creating a new revenue stream: Report

His secret bunker is on Maui.

Don't tell everyone.

The locals won't help you find it of you ask them.

They definitely don't hate him as much as all of us, or more.

Can we PLEASE make these people go away.

Meta is desperate to corner the market on something, anything.

They want to make every one of us penniless, and control ALL the money. If they can't get it from us from taxes, fines, and over-priced consumer goods, they'll train us to just throw it away by gambling.

And they'll just scoop it all up. Nothing left for children to inherit, nothing saved for retirement, nothing saved to start a business, but a second home, send kids to college, etc.

But it's worse than that. You got out of college with massive student loans that will take a lifetime to pay off. Now you have a massive gambling debt that just keeps growing, because your addicted as sure as if it were heroin. Now you're gambling, not to "make it interesting," but because you're trying to win the money to get yourself out of your hole. You don't worry about losing any more, because your already so deep it doesn't matter. What matters is that you could win at any time, and start digging your way out.

Or maybe you avoided the student loan trap somehow, but now they convince you that gambling in fun, get you into debt, and trap you that way.

I hate this guy

Have you seen any of the games that are available on Android and iOS devices for kids to play? They have been priming children for gambling for many many years. The sounds and visuals they use in the way they introduce prizes and features as rewards for playing mini games and various "mystery box" items they can get. They are virtually identical to any and all gambling apps as well as casino slot machines.

For those who may have forgotten, the little prince of Meta more or less started with Facemash, a site that displayed two photos side by side and asked users to vote for which person was "more attractive," using a mechanism similar to "Hot or Not."

All "funny" if it weren't for:

• Privacy: using photographs of people without consent would often violate regulations and, in many countries, personal data protection laws.
• Consent: the people depicted had not chosen to participate.
• Objectification: asking people to rank solely based on their physical appearance can be seen as a form of objectification and can contribute to a disrespectful environment.
• Possible psychological effects: this type of public comparison can affect self-esteem and exclude or humiliate some people.

Not to mention what happened with Cambridge Analytica.

What do people expect from a mind like that?

Another sign that billionaires and Zuckerberg especially, have completely become out of touch with the rest of humanity.

We are merely consumers to them.

Zuck fucks up every business model he tries to the point of ending up saying: "I'll just do an online Casino"

Failing at being a tech billionaire is pretty embarrassing.

Worst businessman ever.

Tax that dweed fuck so much he's afraid to show his face in public.

Not that I ever wanted the perv glasses, but seeing this creepy ugly toad fucker wearing those makes me never want a frame remotely similar to them

everything he sells is addiction

Alternate headline: Lord of a crumbling, gutted empire struggles to maintain relevancy

Well, since he bought Instagram, he did turn it from a social hub to a slot machine whose payout is fragments of connection to people you care about, carefully metered to be just enough to keep you coming back without leaving ad money on the table.

I wonder how effectively those glasses would protect his face from a baseball bat swung at full force. Probably not very well, but I'd pay good money to see it tested on him all the same.

French style revolution is the only solution

Mark Zuckerberg shizzle sounds eaga to get young peeps hooked on online gamblin

Yeah, those goggles look perfectly normal. Nobody will think you look like a super-creep weirdo at all.

Meta also hopes to implement parts of Arena into Facebook and its messaging app, Messenger, attaching betting options to group chats, news feeds, and videos.

“We believe that prediction markets are one of the more interesting new content types,” Ime Archibong, a senior Meta official leading Arena’s development, reportedly said in an internal company post last month. “The social conversation is the payoff as people aim to show off how good they are at predicting things to their friends.”

The strategy appears to be: betting as content, gamifying gambling to become social. It’s a framing that could open the door to harmful situations, especially for the young people he’s going after. According to the National Council on Problem Gambling, 2.5 million US adults, or about 1 percent of Americans, meet the diagnostic mental health criteria of severe gambling addiction. An Epic Research study published on Friday analyzing electronic health records found that gambling disorder diagnoses have risen more than 60 percent since 2018 in states that have legalized sports betting. The largest increase came from young people, aged 18 to 29, whose rate more than doubled.

He looks like such a nerd in those stupid glasses.

And not even in a good way.

preying on the degenerate, by making degenerate app.

Did even Corey Doctorow predict this level of enshittification?

Jesus fucking christ somone outlaw this shit

Time and time again, Zuckerberg and his court showing they have no morals whatsoever are only interested in making money, whatever the consequences.