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The thing that most surprises me in these emails are that those two people care about housing price or student debt, or millennials in general.

And cynical me can't brush of the feeling that this is satire or that I need to read between the lines.

A dude that buys all houses around him just to get privacy and "fuck off" others (Zuck) cares about housing? A guy that think Greta is antichrist and think anyone that blocks AI advancement is antichrist, somehow thinks "we should look at why millennials choose socialism" as a thought process?

A more realistic, "what they mean" interpretation of this emailing is:

"FB product have influence over millennials (Instagram) and Boomers (Facebook). Boomers are dying out, so we should double down on our grip over millennials and tune the algorithms so we can manipulate them more than ever. We should lobby and push out the boomers and set millennials in the position of institutional power, and no other cohorts, so that we have a direct pipeline of controlling the public discord and communication between this generation "



Or maybe it shows that The Bad Guys have complicated and unexpected and nuanced thoughts sometimes?




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