{"id":28723,"date":"2019-05-09T23:24:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T04:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28723"},"modified":"2019-05-09T23:24:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T04:24:16","slug":"briefly-we-still-hold-the-power-not-zuckerberg-and-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28723","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: We still hold the power, not Zuckerberg and Co."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Mark-Zuckerberg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28724\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Mark-Zuckerberg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Mark-Zuckerberg.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Mark-Zuckerberg-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know this isn\u2019t a popular opinion, but Mark Zuckerberg isn\u2019t nearly as powerful as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2019\/05\/how-powerful-mark-zuckerberg\/589129\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most people seem to fear<\/a>. I don\u2019t think especially highly of him. I think he misunderstands humans and I think his business ethics are terrible. But he doesn\u2019t actually have power over anybody other than his own employees. He has an indirect business relationship with many millions of people, but those people hold power over him. If they chose to walk away from Facebook, his career and wealth would be destroyed. As long as our relationship with a company is voluntary, we are the ones with the power \u2014 even if you wish other people would make different choices than they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know this isn\u2019t a popular opinion, but Mark Zuckerberg isn\u2019t nearly as powerful as most people seem to fear. I don\u2019t think especially highly of him. I think he misunderstands humans and I think his business ethics are terrible. But he doesn\u2019t actually have power over anybody other than his own employees. He has <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28723\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-briefly","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7th","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28725,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28723\/revisions\/28725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}