In other words, the WEF has weaponized the concept of status envy to create a Hunger Games for the 0.001 percent.

What’s not in Mark’s email is more telling than what is. There’s no acknowledgment at all of the moral complexity of working in an authoritarian country that surveils its own citizens and doesn’t allow free speech.

stuff done.” He also spilled a lot of blood expanding the territory of the United States, sent five Native tribes out onto the Trail of Tears, but Mark doesn’t mention that.

Mark explains that Jackson’s the greatest president America has ever had, that he was ruthless, a populist and an individualist, and that he “got

If anything, he’s really hung up on the size of the crowd. That’s what matters to him. A public rally of over one million people. That’s what he wants more than anything.

One day, Sam Lessin, a director of product, refers to himself as both “price insensitive” and “economically insensitive.” I have to ask Marne what he means. The answer? He has so much money that he doesn’t care what things cost.

Marne explains her background, that she’s relatively new to Facebook, having most recently worked at the White House under Larry Summers.

For all the times I’ve met Sheryl, it feels like this is the first time I am really seeing her. She turns on the charisma and it transforms her from a normal-looking fortysomething woman into someone genuinely glamorous. I swear—her hair, her eyes, her makeup, her skin—suddenly she positively glows. Sparkles. Like she’s the star of her own show, ra

That mutual friend—Ed Luce—is remarkably good humored about introducing me to Marne. They both worked for Larry Summers at the Treasury Department.