> Zuckerberg got punished

I think it's hard to grasp just how much money he poured into this folly. $80 Billion. For an idea that any random person on the street could have torn apart. He read Ready Player 1 and decided that was what the future should be. Then he tried to make it. He ruined the Oculus brand and stole all the oxygen from other VR development just to make a lesser copy of our own world, but one where he could be admin.

Seattle just opened a new transit line, spanning from downtown Seattle to Bellevue. It's 33 miles long and cost $3.7 billion. It was already carrying 2 million people per year [0] even before the entire line was finished and on the opening day after completion it reached 200,000 riders.

Further from home, the entirety of the Artemis II program cost $93 billion [1] and lists an estimated $4 billion per launch.

One last example - the panama canal would cost an estimated $50 - $75 billion if you built it today. [2] The panama canal reshaped trade routes and the global economy.

Where is Meta's moon landing? Where is their impact? Zuckerberg spent enough money to build a new transit system for an entire city. Enough money to land astronauts on the moon. Enough to connect oceans together. He poured this money down a hole chasing his own vanity and a vision of the future that no one wanted.

How, after all that, did he get punished? He's still CEO. "Meta" is still overvalued. They're still regarded as a serious tech company.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Line_(Sound_Transit)

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/artemis-2-cost-explaine...

[2] https://www.mikegravel.org/how-much-would-the-panama-canal-c...