On Wednesday, Elon “Space Karen” Musk posted a message on (where else?) that he was “ ” with Mark “The Zuck” Zuckerberg. Twitter up for a cage fight “ ”, Zuck replied. A bit ironic, seeing as . Send me location Meta already has everyone’s live location We’re told they have since agreed a fight will take place in . Las Vegas Let’s get the obvious out of the way. The odds of this cage match actually happening are almost nil. We’re talking about CEOs of public companies, who have boards and thousands of employees the world over. These people do not fight. Musk also has a history of making wild promises and not following through, while Zuckerberg is likely ruminating on the old adage : “ ”. Think how loathed you have to be to have a physical fight with Mark Zuckerberg… and everybody roots for Mark Zuckerberg. Never wrestle with a pig because you’ll both get dirty and the pig likes it Whether a “ ” happens or not is in any case immaterial — we’re all losing in this circus. And that’s not (only) because these two dinguses are spending their days planning fights while . fight saying we’re unproductive when we work from home . And that’s people. Every second they spend on this is a second they’re not spending fixing their crappy products killing still allows/fails to moderate the type of pages that have, in the past, led to in the US. Not only is there no moderation… Facebook still . The company is also yet to atone for the , which led to a . Facebook real-life violence and death promotes extremist content rampant hate and misinformation it let fester in Myanmar freaking genocide The damage the company is responsible for is equally devastating at the individual level. , to a the likes of which the world has never seen, mostly affecting . And all that is before we even get to the “ ” and “ ” stories. From addictive designs leading to suicides mental health epidemic young girls and women Instagram Connects Vast Pedophile Network Indian WhatsApp lynchings Musk and Tesla aren’t sitting pretty either. autopilot is such a joke that it needs a full Wikipedia page . Musk has killed at least 33 people over the past years (and as recently as March 2023), (what is phantom breaking, anyway?). Tesla to list them all and he will kill again He’s also dealing with rampant abuse within his companies, to . And all that comes without looking at Twitter’s continuous spread of right-wing/ , which I must stress again… . from sexual harassment claims racial discrimination anti-vax misinformation is killing people These two men have a combined net worth of $345 billion (!), 150+ million followers (!) and 13+ kids (!). While a sporting boxing match may sound like fun on paper… they really have better things to do (raising kids that don’t start harmful tech companies would be a good start). In 1992, . If they’re so eager to prove how manly they are and don’t have “strong divorced dad energy”, may I recommend this instead? two airline CEOs arm-wrestled to settle a lawsuit Maybe the proceeds can go to the families of the millions of lives they’ve hurt with their awful companies. Good luck out there. Also published here .

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