I feel like we're celebrating whoever can make the most money in the most ridiculous way rather than those who make the most useful thing for society. A lot of kids are growing up with this pathetic and twisted idea of success being... come up with "some stupid internet thing that everyone uses", get money from some rich guys, get advice from other successful guys, grow your stupid internet thing into a business using their money and the hard work of hundreds of employees, be worshiped and become famous. On top of that media and society concentrate worship, idolization, and ass-kissing towards 1 person. It doesn't matter if you came up with the iPad while working at Apple, Steve Jobs will be the one who will be known for it by nearly everyone. Did you redesign Facebook and make hundreds of millions of people rejoice at the new easier layout? No one will know your name, Mark Zuckerberg will be praised. Did you create FarmVille, FishVille, Mafia Wars, Cafe World? Their names will be connected to Mark Pincus, not yours. Not to say that these leaders were lazy, many people have been given hundreds of millions and have wasted it away without having anything to show for it, these founders took the money and trippled it. That takes work & intelligence but it's never done by one person. Yet the success all goes to one person.
It's so shallow and superficial & yet there's no one to blame. It's no one's fault. We can't help we celebrate such primitive things. Especially looking at The Kardashians and Paris Hilton. Usefulness need not apply to this contest. Worth seems to be measured in how many people you can get to follow you. 50 years from now all of will be old and we'll read about how some 9 year old made $75 billion dollars by creating a website were kids under 18 can gossip and rate how lame their parents are. You will sigh. You will laugh. And you'll remember it all started in our generation.
I believe it's the novelty of the fact that "some stupid internet thing that everyone uses" was purchased for 1.1 billion that makes it newsworthy. An extremely profitable medical company that very few people come into contact and that makes life saving medicines is purchased for a large amount of money and goes unnoticed and this is somehow surprising? It's the height of pretentiousness to expect that everyone be as interested in the things that you are interested in and to look down on them if they aren't.
It's so shallow and superficial & yet there's no one to blame. It's no one's fault. We can't help we celebrate such primitive things. Especially looking at The Kardashians and Paris Hilton. Usefulness need not apply to this contest. Worth seems to be measured in how many people you can get to follow you. 50 years from now all of will be old and we'll read about how some 9 year old made $75 billion dollars by creating a website were kids under 18 can gossip and rate how lame their parents are. You will sigh. You will laugh. And you'll remember it all started in our generation.