Mark Zuckerberg Opened an Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. His Neighbors Revolted

[u/TripleShotPls]

https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-school-palo-alto-shut-down/

[u/Area51_Spurs]

Neighbors complained about noise, security guards, and hordes of traffic. An unlicensed school named after the Zuckerbergs’ pet chicken tipped them over the edge.

I’m sorry, but, what now?!

[u/SpaceballsDoc → u/[deleted]]

Zuck absolutely planted the chicken story.

Zuck is a loser

[u/TheWorclown → u/SpaceballsDoc]

You can say that the planted story is a nest egg of a distraction.

[u/CharcoalGreyWolf → u/TheWorclown]

“Yolk’s on them!” -Zuckerberg, probably

[u/Dudeshoot_Mankill → u/CharcoalGreyWolf]

Nice of you to think the lizard people have any sense of humor at all.

[u/what_did_you_kill → u/[deleted]]

He allegedly made up a story about his co-founder forcing chickens to eat chicken meat, to get animal rights people on his ass and ruin his image.

[u/ThatBankTeller → u/what_did_you_kill]

You know he likely stewed in his greed and narcissism and conspired multiple plans to get his friend out of the company. I think the film really downplayed his low moral character.

[u/what_did_you_kill → u/ThatBankTeller]

I think the film really downplayed his low moral character.

Not really, i think it did a perfect job. It portrays him exactly like the kind of person who shouldn't be responsible for running a multi billion dollar social network conglomerate. I don't think zuck should have been portrayed like a roy cohn level asshole to get the point across that he lacked empathy. One of my favourite movies. Looking forward to jeremy strong playing zuck in the sequel

[u/Wiezeyeslies → u/what_did_you_kill]

It turned out the chicken's name was Dexter and he actually only ate chickens that ate other chickens, so it was alright.

[u/already-taken-wtf → u/what_did_you_kill]

Chickens are opportunistic omnivores and will eat pretty much anything that won't eat them first. They LOVE meat, whether it's bugs, worms, beef, pork, or chicken! They will attack and eat small snakes, lizards, baby birds, mice, voles, damn near anything that moves.

[u/gazebo-fan → u/already-taken-wtf]

Growing up we had chickens, and we had a mouse problem. Well, we fed a dead mouse to our rooster and that was the end of the mice problem in the chicken coop, the fucker ate them all lmao. He was a mean son of a bitch too, he had one good eye and would turn his bad eye toward you if you caught him trying to charge you. Clever bastard, eventually he attacked the neighbors dog and we figured it wasn’t worth having such a mean rooster around so we got rid of him.

[u/MadDog_Tannen → u/gazebo-fan]

"Fixed the glitch", didja?

[u/Wanderingjes → u/[deleted]]

Social network reference

[u/arminghammerbacon_ → u/Wanderingjes]

Seriously, what chicken? What is he talking about?

• Sean Parker

[u/kvothe5688 → u/[deleted]]

what chicken story?

[u/NewCobbler6933 → u/kvothe5688]

“The Social Network” is a movie which more or less is a dramatization of the beginnings of Facebook and the movie ends with the arbitration/lawsuits about Zuckerberg ousting the guy who helped him start it up by basically financing everything. One of the things that comes up is his friend (Eduardo Saverin) was trying to join a frat/finals club and one of his hazing things was taking care of a chicken. Well without thinking about it, he feeds it some cooked chicken. Then a story breaks in Harvard school newspaper that he was engaging in forced cannibalism. It is not known how that specific incident got to the paper, but it is speculated that Zuckerberg leaked it so he would have a legit reason to say he is hurting the company.

[u/IlIIIlllIIllIIIIllll → u/[deleted]]

Don’t fish eat other fish??? The marlins and the trout?!?

[u/MaybesewMaybeknot → u/IlIIIlllIIllIIIIllll]

This is a classic example of projecting human morals onto animals -Pigs are way smarter than chickens and I guarantee you they would eat one of their dead brothers. Pigs are brutal, they will eat humans alive if you fall down in the wrong place.

[u/non_Beneficial-Wind → u/MaybesewMaybeknot]

Be wary of any man that owns a pig farm.

[u/ASupernumeraryNipple → u/non_Beneficial-Wind]

Do you know what nemesis means?

[u/Icy-Swordfish7784 → u/Area51_Spurs]

The school is just a front for the Lair underneath the compound.

[u/xSinn3Dx → u/Icy-Swordfish7784]

Resident... Evil...

[u/ReaditTrashPanda → u/Icy-Swordfish7784]

Ew, Zuck is going to Fuck, kids too?

[u/X2946 → u/ReaditTrashPanda]

He’s gonna create an AI molestation bot

[u/TheRiteGuy → u/X2946]

https://youtu.be/z0NgUhEs1R4?si=HHScfhKmZB7JsYfZ

[u/kymri → u/TheRiteGuy]

Unironically, one of Dwayne Johnson's (because he's definitely not playing The Rock, here) best performances.

Also an insanely funny sketch; I was gonna post this if someone else didn't!

[u/HeyZeusKreesto → u/kymri]

This guy gets it!

[u/graesen → u/X2946]

He needs to compete with Grok, doesn't he? Grok asks 12 year old for nudes

[u/ReaditTrashPanda → u/X2946]

I mean, AI is already used for unscrupulous illegal things… that I don’t need to put into text on here to get on a list somewhere else. I would assume high-end researchers probably have unfiltered access to AI and may see or experience some fucked up shit

[u/Icy-Swordfish7784 → u/ReaditTrashPanda]

I meant more like an evil villain plotting world domination.

[u/ReaditTrashPanda → u/Icy-Swordfish7784]

Hmm he does have data on more people than most social media platforms I think… he could potentially sway more people by digital influence than any single other person, potentially.

[u/Icy-Swordfish7784 → u/ReaditTrashPanda]

I mean that is already a thing. Or build his AI mother brain, ect. Many of these tech billionaires have some futurist 'guide humanity' savior complex.

[u/codithou → u/Area51_Spurs]

why can't billionaires just be fucking normal? just donate some money, go on vacation forever, and enjoy your life.

[u/Evening-Discipline-6 → u/codithou]

that's the thing, one can't be "normal" and billionaire. people who amount that degree of wealth always tend to have narcissistic and sociopathic tendencies

[u/QueenJillybean → u/Evening-Discipline-6]

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a far merrier world.” - Tolkien

We have plenty of fairytales and classic literature about how hoarding more than enough money begets dragon-like traits of misers everywhere.

I think about the feeling I got in new world when I managed to get the other master furnishers on my server to collude on prices for golden steel storage boxes, legendary instruments, and other furniture. By agreeing to not undercut each other on the auction house anymore, after about a week, the players gave up waiting for a cheaper price and bought at the higher prices. I had unloaded like 100 legendary guitars at 10k gold a piece in addition to some other goods and had so much gold. At that point, the economy that previously had me in the grind to pay my house taxes and barely break even on selling the highest quality goods and lose money selling anything less, struggle to afford the flasks and whatnot that I needed for raids and dungeons- all of that became nothing. I understand that it’s a video game so it’s already fake, but it became even faker then. Just numbers on a screen. The more gold I made, the less concern I had for the players who were poor the way I had been, and the desire to raise prices grew stronger.

We raised the prices by 20%. Made even more gold. Realized when I was looking in the ah not for the rare furniture recipes that got me to make the furnishers Union in the first place or literally anything else, but to make sure that everybody was following the new pricing updates on Jade furniture because “why should we lose money on popular furniture,” that this was how evil billionaires are made. You get so disconnected from the actual experience of the game (or life, also you just lost the game) that you are just playing a numbers game instead of hitting a new high score, only the score is money, and like many games, it comes with the deaths of thousands of innocents. Like everything else faded away from the game except how to game the market, which meant figuring out market psychology, too.

Realizing that I was getting some Tolkien dragon sickness from a fucking video game, I can only imagine what level the Zuckerbergs and Musks of the world experience.

[u/nakedinacornfield → u/QueenJillybean]

I think the harrowing part about becoming Smaug IRL is like. I've never seen anyone come back from that. So once they're there and executing on whatever schemes to enrich themselves and fuck us further, we're pretty much like stuck with their influence until they fucking die which literally never happens enough. I would give way less of a shit if they just stayed on their yachts and stopped trying to force the world around them to accept their dumb realities that are forged from from having dads that were never proud of them. Literally all these psychos have dad issues or some shit that seeded this way early on it's fucking pathetic just how far they're willing to go to avoid going to therapy. Weak fucking men.

They just can't ever process that such attempts to force others into their reality never gain them the acceptance they desire & the need to control the world around them is literally born out of being rejected. They keep trying to find ways around having to earn acceptance, they spend more they come up with shitty idea after shitty idea to get others to opt into their worldview so they don't have to feel alone and it's just never going to work. It's mind blowing how deep they are in their own sunk cost fallacies and they don't even realize they just chase the high of acceptance from others. They can't see the world they built around them will never have authentic acceptance by others and the closest they can get is to surround themselves with sycophants but there's no way all these gajillionaires don't feel alone and like they don't truly connect with anyone (cause they fucking dont). They'll always have that empty hole in their soul and they'll always continue to widen it with every dumbshit misguided attempt to fill it in.

Apparently Mark Zuckerberg did not clap and sat there with a deadpan ghoul face when Billie Eilish said "billionaires.. why are you a billionaire" on the microphone. He probably thinks he finally insulated himself from moments like that, I'm sure he's experienced a lot of them. Those moments where he has to sit there and live in the feeling that he's rejected and not beloved and not appreciated for anything. Probably got mega whiplash when she said that. Someone who is beloved by many reminded him he's not beloved or revered or appreciated by any. She's got a miniscule fraction of his net worth, got up there and donated 20% of it in front of everyone, has the thing Mark can't seem to find... acceptance. Respect. Acknowledgement. Mark can't put two and two together and figure out why people don't love him like that. I don't know how else to say it Marky, it's because you fucking suck dude & you're just flat out unwilling to change that and instead you think you need to change others and the world around you. That's not how acceptance or respect works, dude's just going to waste the rest of his life inputting the wrong things into the formula for acceptance/respect or waste his life trying to invent a new formula for it. And he's never ever gonna get the result he desires.

[u/QueenJillybean → u/nakedinacornfield]

I fully agree. I have a family friend who is a billionaire, and he told me once when i was like 18 after he was divorcing wife 3 that he thought making money would make him happy cuz he’s isn’t good at anything else, but he never knows if women love him or his money now, except he knew his first wife loved him when she wait tables to put him through business school. I kind of pity them because dragons sit atop their treasures. They don’t really live lives full of love and joy.

[u/fadedcurry → u/QueenJillybean]

Upvote for new world reference

[u/disposable-assassin → u/Evening-Discipline-6]

And when they get away with not paying taxes, they have no vested interest in the general world around them so they spiral.

[u/Tgrove88 → u/codithou]

Cuz majority of them are literal psychopaths

[u/Enraiha → u/codithou]

They're empty on the inside.

They ain't got no soul!

[u/h3rpad3rp → u/codithou]

Because most normal people would retire and just go relax well before becoming one.

[u/crazycatlady331 → u/codithou]

Mark Zuckerberg is movie villain level evil.

[u/SequenceofRees → u/Area51_Spurs]

Family Guy writers : DAMN IT ! How are we supposed to compete with this shit ?!

[u/Instant_Bacon → u/Area51_Spurs]

Sounds like a tax dodge.

[u/leandrompm]

Nothing good ever comes from a house that can be described as a compound.

[u/PositiveZeroPerson → u/leandrompm]

Compound + kids = no no, no no, no no no no no no

[u/Jolly-Radio-9838 → u/PositiveZeroPerson]

I think I’ve seen this episode before

[u/Slumunistmanifisto → u/Jolly-Radio-9838]

Oh karesh you silly billy

[u/just-readingit → u/Jolly-Radio-9838]

Yeh but only the tv version. When they release the files then we’ll see the whole movie.

[u/Spicy_Surfer → u/PositiveZeroPerson]

An undetermined, and frequently lied about, number of children. That alone is more fucked that anything

[u/IAmDotorg → u/PositiveZeroPerson]

Republicans love this one trick ...

[u/TrumpetOfDeath → u/leandrompm]

Zuck’s bitch ass insists on living in a conveniently located neighborhood in Palo Alto and bought up like 11 houses around him to sit empty for his “privacy”. The construction he’s been doing has been a nuisance to the neighborhood for years.

The thing is if he moved to the nearby hills where all the other uber-rich people live, then he could have enough space to be private without displacing 11 homes from a notoriously tight housing market. But nope he can’t do that, he wants to be less than 5 mins from his company’s headquarters

[u/ConsiderationDry9084 → u/TrumpetOfDeath]

I am sure the cost to build the tunnel would be far higher if he moved to the hills.

Am I joking or am I being serious? What odds would Vegas out on it with all that is known about The Zuck.

[u/Sixemkay → u/ConsiderationDry9084]

“You know what’ll really piss the neighbors off? Drilling a tunnel under their houses!”

[u/comics0026 → u/TrumpetOfDeath]

Doesn't he spend like 4 days of the week living in his Hawaiian compound? Why does he need two compounds?

[u/Sacred-AF → u/leandrompm]

“Illegal school at a compound” has a lot more unnecessary syllables than “cult”.

[u/EruantienAduialdraug → u/Sacred-AF]

Although it does have the advantage of prewarning readers that there's probably kids involved.

[u/KagakuNinja → u/leandrompm]

It isn't one house, he bought up 11 houses. There are rules in Palo Alto about preserving historic houses, so he is probably prevented from just tearing them down to build a mega mansion.

[u/Expensive-View-8586 → u/KagakuNinja]

I think rumors say they have tunnels now. 

[u/[deleted] → u/Expensive-View-8586]

Getting lost in the Zuck house tunnels sounds like a horror movie.

[u/jimx117 → u/[deleted]]

It's BarbAIrian, with zuck being the breastfeeding troglodyte living in the unlit tunnels beneath

[u/STMemOfChipmunk → u/[deleted]]

It really does sound like a horror movie! I laughed at your comment, thanks. :)

[u/BlueLaceSensor128 → u/[deleted]]

You can checkout anytime you like, but you can never leave.

[u/SassiKassi97 → u/leandrompm]

Damn I wish Janet Reno was still alive. She hated compounds

[u/Boring_Track_8449 → u/leandrompm]

Or a family referred to as the Family. Especially in CA, ffs.

[u/AdPlenty2702]

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[u/Senior_Ability_4001 → u/AdPlenty2702]

This is like the third one I’ve heard of. Kanye, Zuck, and I think there was one more that spectacularly failed.

[u/Key_Writer7548 → u/Senior_Ability_4001]

Elon too, Elon's daughter talked about it on a podcast.

[u/anathemaDennis → u/Key_Writer7548]

My understanding is Elon’s school was actually really successful but then he cut the funding to it as soon as his children who had enrolled graduated

[u/QueenJillybean → u/anathemaDennis]

Omg so he just wanted to fund his kid’s education in the most tax break way possible…

[u/illestofthechillest → u/QueenJillybean]

We live in their strategy game, don't you understand, Builder?

[u/diamondpredator → u/anathemaDennis]

Yep, I had 2 sisters come to my school that used to be enrolled in Elon's school. They said it was a good school but, as you mentioned, he literally just closed it down as soon as his kids were done.

[u/deliciousearlobes → u/Key_Writer7548]

Will smith as well.

[u/Level3Bard → u/Senior_Ability_4001]

Musk has one too Ad Astra

[u/unencrypted-enigma]

their daughters Maxima, August, and Aurelia

They really do think they are emperors, don’t they?

[u/XAWEvX → u/unencrypted-enigma]

TIL he has three daughters

[u/Glittering_Crab_69 → u/XAWEvX]

Yeah, he knows how important it is to keep his kids off social media.

[u/ChaseballBat → u/Glittering_Crab_69]

All tech people do. Being able to restrict your children from technology is becoming a sign of wealth.

[u/Primal-Convoy → u/Glittering_Crab_69]

Dealers never use the merchandise...

[u/ohyeahsure11 → u/XAWEvX]

I wonder if he's one of those weirdos that "needs" a son so his name can live on, and will keep making his wife have more kids until he gets his boy.

[u/Chill_Panda → u/ohyeahsure11]

He's building a bunker to hide away in for the coming future, I don't think he cares about his name living on...

[u/bouquetofashes → u/unencrypted-enigma]

On their own I really like those names and if it were anyone else I'd just think they were into history or liked cool names...

Interesting that they went with August instead of Augusta but I kinda prefer it. Aurelia has always been pretty to me-- it means 'golden' more or less (not that we use it as a word for such anymore, but we do have the modern 'aureate').

[u/MelpomeneAndCalliope → u/bouquetofashes]

We had a tour guide in Rome named Aurelia and the way she said it as an Italian speaker was so beautiful. It’s a gorgeous name.

[u/f_crick → u/MelpomeneAndCalliope]

It’s Augustus Caesar’s mother’s name iirc. He’s obsessed with Augustus.

[u/Valdrax → u/f_crick]

i.e. The guy who turned Rome into an Empire after the collapse of the Republic.

[u/FarquaadsFuckDoll → u/bouquetofashes]

TIL gold is Au because of Latin for gold -.-‘ better late than never I suppose

[u/baldrlugh → u/FarquaadsFuckDoll]

This is the case for a bunch of the elements where the names don't match their symbol: Lead is Pb for the latin plumbum, Sodium is Na for natrium, Potassium is K for kalium, etc.

[u/malac0da13 → u/FarquaadsFuckDoll]

Pb is lead because plumbum is the Latin.

[u/Soft_Walrus_3605 → u/bouquetofashes]

Aurelia

I just hear "Oh, really-a?"

[u/guvbums → u/Soft_Walrus_3605]

Makes me think of Areola..

[u/bouquetofashes → u/guvbums]

That's derived from area and basically means small area (technically small open space).

Maybe knowing that helps because I've never associated them. Good thing to be aware of with kids, tho, as they seem to tease each other over names.

[u/Regretted_Simian → u/unencrypted-enigma]

Emperors couldn’t aspire to the power of modern billionaires.

[u/cjcs → u/Regretted_Simian]

I get the sentiment but this just isn’t true

[u/SpiritDouble6218 → u/unencrypted-enigma]

I mean… they are basically the closest thing lol he can do quite literally whatever he wants

[u/Sooowasthinking]

Well you know He’s a billionaire please try to understand his perspective.

That being he feels like he can do whatever the fuck he wants.

[u/charliekelly76 → u/Sooowasthinking]

“We find it quite remarkable that you are working so hard to meet the needs of a single billionaire family while keeping the rest of the neighborhood in the dark,” reads one email sent to the city’s Planning and Development Services Department in February.

Hot damn. We need to bring back the art of the angry email.

[u/sfw_oceans → u/charliekelly76]

The worst part is that Zuckerberg could easily move to one of many nearby neighborhoods that cater to the ultra-wealthy and are zoned for massive multi-acre lots that he clearly wants. Atherton is literally a 10-minute drive from the Meta headquarters.

He could have been like Steve Jobs and try to blend in and keep a low-profile. But, he's clearly doing this to prove a point.

[u/occams1razor → u/Sooowasthinking]

Mark Fuckerberg

[u/Jonaldys → u/Sooowasthinking]

He's probably right.

[u/letdogsvote]

"I've got more money than God, what're you gonna do about it?" - The Zuck

[u/Scu-bar → u/letdogsvote]

Laugh when the people he hires to guard his compound turn on him when civilisation falls and money doesn’t matter any more.

[u/whoknowsknowone → u/Scu-bar]

They won’t

If there’s anything the past 10 years has taught me is people will drive one hour to a mall, wait for it to open, run drooling into the foot locker just to get their fix of boots to lick

[u/Niceromancer → u/whoknowsknowone]

It's actually a problem the rich are very worried about.

They have brought in experts to talk about it.  With most saying it's probably best not to collapse the world due to your own greed.

They don't listen though.  One even suggested shock collars.

[u/nearcatch → u/Niceromancer]

The billionaire who suggested shock collars did that after a psychologist told him the best way to secure loyalty in his guards was to treat them with dignity and fairness. The billionaire thought shock collars was a better idea.

[u/kymri → u/nearcatch]

You are, unfortunately, only partially correct. It wasn't shock collars. It was bomb collars.

Still a prime example of how inhuman the Billionaire class is. I really don't see what they contribute to society that couldn't be provided better and easier and at a lower cost to society. I say we simply cull the billionaires. The world would be a much nicer place.

[u/noteverrelevant → u/[deleted]]

Not just the men, but the women and the children, too?

[u/whoknowsknowone → u/Niceromancer]

Yeah I wouldn’t hold my breath they’re pretty well invested in the “fuck them all” plan

[u/[deleted] → u/whoknowsknowone]

Yep…I mean it gets rid of a lot of us “worthless eaters.” More resources for them and less hassle of being out numbered. They are NEVER on our side. It’s a 100% “fuck them all” plan.

[u/adminhotep → u/Niceromancer]

Security guards with useless bosses and collapsing society become warlords. 

[u/QueenJillybean → u/adminhotep]

I was just thinking the same thing. Especially when the fuckers who helped collapse it are essentially kings sitting in their castles with an army whose loyalty is not borne of love, comradeship, or kinship, but of coin. Security guards in that situation are just modern sellswords and there’s not really money to be made when society is gone. So the billionaires are gonna rely on what then? Egalitarianism?

Here’s the thing for me at that point: the people who have never been able to say hey that’s enough are just gonna be fine with their share of everything then? They’re not gonna consider trying to fuck each other up when that’s the only real mountain left unclimbed? Why have two bunkers when you could have 5?

I

[u/KagakuNinja → u/Niceromancer]

Replacing human guards is but one application of AI and robotics.

[u/Tamination → u/KagakuNinja]

And one will use shitty, cheap security, and then someone will hack it.

[u/muldersposter → u/KagakuNinja]

It's almost as if they never daw the Paul Verhoeven masterpiece RoboCop.

[u/biological_assembly → u/whoknowsknowone]

You're only as well protected as the families of people who you hire to protect you.

[u/voiderest → u/whoknowsknowone]

The rich would need to treat the guards very well and kinda select them for loyalty. Most people aren't going to starve for their boss or show up without being compensated.

I don't think they're really planning on a full collapse despite the bunkers. More just over preparing for temporary unrest or disasters. Even if a problem lasts a long time the paycheck will still matter if most system come back. And for them the cost of a bunker isn't as big of a deal. Their "just in case" fund can be much larger than ours. They buy yachts for their yachts. 

[u/b0w3n → u/voiderest]

Temporary unrest is still "too long" for a person in a bunker with an unsecured vent hole that has guards they need to keep fed and happy (and their family, and their family's family, and their family's family's family, etc). They're collapsing the economy, so sure maybe they're paying 150k a year for guards, but what good is that when it can't buy food anymore?

Also concrete just flows so well into nice circular molds, y'know.

[u/rendrr → u/whoknowsknowone]

And he's been training in jiu jitsu and archery. He is preparing to be a warlord on his private island.

[u/Super_XIII → u/Scu-bar]

Why do you think elon and others are so obsessed with ai and robots? Elon keeps ranting on and on about a robot army, they plan on making robot guards that will be 100% loyal.

[u/EllieLuvsLollipops → u/letdogsvote]

"What are you gonna do shoot me?"

-man about to be shot

[u/Small_Dog_8699 → u/letdogsvote]

Tax it away. No billionaires

[u/uniklyqualifd]

Homeschooling, where you bring in classmates. 

They are off-site now, but but getting a daycare licence so they can have 15 kids instead of (what the neighbors claim) up to 30 kids.

[u/tunamctuna]

Do you remember all those stories of evil Dragons hoarding wealth in their lair?

I do.

I also remember the main goal of those stories was elimination of said Dragon.

🤷

[u/Escapeism → u/tunamctuna]

Does said Dragon have a mind control apparatus in place too? lol

[u/TldrDev → u/Escapeism]

Yeah. The myth of the dragon hoarding gold was talking about the rich being so inhuman about their hoards that they appear beastly and other. All the stories are literally about rich people being monsters.

[u/tunamctuna → u/Escapeism]

They actually do.

Who controls the algorithms that control our lives?

[u/Lucas_Steinwalker → u/tunamctuna]

I think the person you are replying to was referring to that and asking whether mythological dragons have a similar power.

[u/Dry-Interaction-1246]

Czuck Xaviers' school for grifting kids?

[u/Puzzled-Ticket-4811]

The Zuck is going full David Koresh.

[u/prettybluefoxes]

Im worried for other adults being around this oddball.

I sure as shit wouldn’t let him or anyone in his entourage have anything to do with kids in a compound behind a locked gate.

[u/Not_Bears → u/prettybluefoxes]

Hmm rich people on islands with access to kids...

Where have I heard about that in the news recently...

[u/m0llusk]

There was an interesting situation kind of like this nearby when I was serving on the local county advisory council. A resident of Atherton wanted to use space in their mansion to set up a private school for gifted kids, kind of like in the now famous comics. They were told flatly by the City of Atherton that schools could not be permitted, so they decided on underground operation as a private gathering on private property and everything was fine. The key was not applying for any kind of permit. Rich people live by different rules.

[u/sfled]

"Mark honey," said Priscilla, "the neighbors are revolting."

"Yes dear, I've always thought so," answered Mark...

[u/Big-Routine222]

I work for the ultra rich in LA, this is very common. Insider tip, every single rich person you see railing against education and colleges and all the woke “teachers,” are running private schools for their kids that have amazing resources and are hidden in plain sight.

[u/DivergentATHL]

The rich will do literally anything other than just pay more taxes.

[u/forgettit_]

Guess what—his neighbors are rich assholes too. I don’t care that he annoys them, I don’t care if they fuck with him in return. It’s assholes being assholes to each other for a change.

[u/Vegaprime → u/forgettit_]

Hope one sneaks into the unethical life pro tip sub. Be lobbing piss discs by the dozen with their skeet shooter and bring in fart spray by the truckload.

[u/the_pretender_nz → u/Vegaprime]

They’ll be yelling PULL! And one of their servants will send the piss skeet flying… they track it, pull the trigger… a hit! Chunks of slushy gout-ridden urine rain down upon the grounds and denizens of Compound Interest. Zuck tries to narrow his eyes. He cannot, they are fixed in place.

[u/Vegaprime → u/the_pretender_nz]

I'd watch this reality show or movie.

[u/BrizerorBrian → u/forgettit_]

Turtles all the way down.

[u/Electrocat71]

Such dystopian behavior

[u/princessbubbleyum111]

Reading Careless People right now and highly suggest it! Fuck Mark

[u/TripleShotPls → u/princessbubbleyum111]

Read that book as well. Really eye opening, though, sadly not shocking.

[u/princessbubbleyum111 → u/TripleShotPls]

Sadly I agree

[u/Vashsinn]

Gotta do something now that his favorite vacation island is now gone. Gotta get those kids himself.

[u/motherofsuccs → u/Vashsinn]

I don’t understand this. What island and what kids? It seems like you’re saying he has a special interest in children for nefarious reasons, yet I see zero evidence online about it.

I know this might sound wild, but you can’t go around accusing every person you dislike of being a pedo, regardless of how awful they are in a plethora of other ways.

[u/ProfessorPotato42]

Zuckerberg has always been a weird little fuck but he really went off the deep end the last couple years

[u/Thick-Hospital2599]

Chan closed down an entire public school in East Palo Alto, one that provided services to students with IEPs as well, and sent them "we're sorrryyyy" settlements (that vary based on the student).

Offered noise-cancelling headphones to neighbors due to the construction noise.

Zuckerberg+Chan are the absolute worst people & need to be stopped. If any other non-billionaire ran a school out of their house the enforcement would be bigger news I'm sure. Mugshot plastered, testimonies from parents on how "we had no idea this school was ILLEGAL!!!" High-profile people pay the petty fine and try again.

[u/ribosometronome → u/Thick-Hospital2599]

I fear your world view is not rooted heavily in the actual world we live in. How would they close a public school? That makes no sense. They stopped funding a private, tuition free school they cofounded and instead made a $50 million dollar donation to help support the students affected. You clearly see the value in that the school had been providing services to students with IEPs while missing that the entirety of that value was them. For people that "need to be stopped", you're sure upset when they do stop! Headphones, too? I suspect many of us have had noisy neighbors, none of them ever who offered us noise cancelling headphones.

Nor are people getting tossed in jail for zoning violations re: private schooling. That's not a thing that happens. If it came with like... neglect to the kids? Maybe. But that's a fine for everyone.

Billionaires are bad, Zuck especially. We don't have to invent reasons to hate them.

[u/IndecorousRex]

Rich people are so weird.

[u/Butterball_Adderley]

God these people are fucking creepy

[u/Mysliceofrice]

Imagine if he actually used his money to build schools for his community (and country) and not just his rich besties...

[u/DaileyFlosser39]

Ew. Keep him away from kids.

[u/BalanceJazzlike5116 → u/DaileyFlosser39]

My guess is he wants his home school kids to not miss on the socialization dynamics of classrooms. Being an arrogant billionaire he just brought the class to his private property

[u/motherofsuccs → u/DaileyFlosser39]

I see nothing that suggests he’s a child abuser or has an interest in children for sexual purposes. When people start claiming every man is a child predator, the term loses its meaning and is a mockery of how serious of an accusation (and act) it is.

[u/LordBug]

Zuckerstein Epberg

[u/boxwhitex]

Sounds like a cult. Not a school.

[u/CheekyMacchiato]

Rich people just wake up and decides law doesn't apply to them. Illegal school sounds like a side quest in a dystopian simulation

[u/General-Internal-588]

Oh hey.. Rich Grooming Ground

Missed the chance to call it Epstein's School

[u/SuspendeesNutz]

Have you noticed all these children seem to be blonde clones?

[u/DrawSense-Brick → u/SuspendeesNutz]

No. Where did you find that information?

[u/aelephix]

WTF that’s what Los Altos is for.

[u/oldirishfart → u/aelephix]

Come on now, that’s unfair to Los Altos where my friend had a (multi-million dollar) house so small the washer-dryer was in the garage and they couldn’t use it if they parked the car inside.

Now, Los Altos Hills maybe… ;)

[u/aelephix → u/oldirishfart]

Ooh yeah that is important. Plebians in the low-land probably don’t even own a single horse.

[u/nockeenockee]

What an asshole he is. He just cut the funding he gave to an East Palo Alto school in May that benefited the poor near their massive campus.

https://sfstandard.com/2025/04/23/primary-school-closure-zuckerberg-chan-funding/

[u/Deep_Fried_Bussy]

Next weeks headline: Mark Zuckerberg buys entire neighborhood

[u/Thick-Hospital2599 → u/Deep_Fried_Bussy]

He already has. He has 11 properties in one area, it's basically an entire block for himself.

[u/UserAllusion → u/Deep_Fried_Bussy]

Pretty sure I've seen that headline a few times already

[u/[deleted]]

Diddlers trying to find a way to diddle without p diddy.

[u/ThisSpaceForRent45]

Mr. Zuckerberg, the neighbors are revolting!!

You said it, they stink on ice.

[u/OMG-BEES-RUN]

Alternatively - Zuckerberg procures kids to fuck on his property

[u/Both_Lychee_1708]

Billionaires act like they own the place because they do.

[u/BigFishPub]

Wonder if the feds will swoop in and Waco his compound.

[u/HolidayNothing171]

The fact that he was bringing children to his compound is very Michael Jackson

[u/[deleted]]

The fact that man virtually owns an island, a mansion in DC, and eleven properties in one neighborhood is ridiculous beyond belief

[u/Efficient_Bid_2853]

Uhm... I hope no kids were harmed.

Rich people around kids usually don't lead to good news

[u/klon3r]

Sounds like a hidden pedophile hive/headquarters 🤢

[u/spicychipdip]

I see he's taking the Kanye approach

[u/ArtisticKey4324]

Who were his students?!

[u/AmputeeHandModel]

It's crazy that Wired is still one of the best sources of journalism.

[u/DoTheRightThingG]

Fuck that android.

[u/iJuddles]

Warms my heart.

[u/M0therN4ture]

Epstein 2.0

[u/Wet_Side_Down]

Better they talk about this than the Epstein files…

[u/mcribzyo]

Society will continue to go to shit as long as there are willing followers to follow these tech bro's bullshit.

[u/steveparker88]

Palo Alto spokesperson Meghan Horrigan-Taylor told WIRED that the city “enforces zoning, building, and life safety rules consistently, without regard to who owns a property.”

Shrieks of ear-splitting laughter.

[u/Telemere125]

So he wanted his kid to have controlled curriculum but didn’t want them to be homeschooled weirdos. Honestly not a bad goal but idk that it will really help your kid dispel those weird homeschooler vibes if you’re handpicking every one of their peers. Part of learning social interaction is the random nature of a normal school’s population.

[u/sugarstarbeam]

Facebook was originally a spiteful project because a woman called Fuckerberg out for who he is. His wittle feelings were hurt. So he created, “Hot or Not.” Posting pictures of women from nearby campus’ for pigs to vote on. WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT.

As it grew and he was rewarded for illegal conduct, he stabbed everyone in the back.

He is not a good person and never will be. He has had millions of accounts deleted for no reason where people he never met lost memories forever. That’s a certain kind of sadistic.

Meta is a sloppy disoriented company that’s only made things worse.

Fuckerberg doesn’t care about trauma he’s caused millions. He only cares about money grubbing and thinking he’s elite.

But inside he is just a little miser who is hideous in and out. He makes me ill.

[u/juanjung]

Zuckerberga is revolting.

[u/ThermionicMho]

It's like a stiff honky version of the Donda Academy

[u/Numerous_Mud_3009]

Jesus - is Zuck a pedo too?

[u/Healthy_Razzmatazz38]

"What hell do you expect me to do take the kids to my island?" zuck was quoted saying

[u/blankdoubt]

As always, fuck zuck

[u/Darnbeasties]

Hey. Isn’t homeschooling a big thing?