Mark Zuckerberg, US tech
entrepreneur and CEO of Facebook, says he doesn’t think billionaires should
exist, adding that in reality, “no-one deserves to have that much money”.
The fifth richest person in the
world with billions of dollars to his name, spoke on Thursday during a weekly
business conference at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
Zuckerberg was speaking in
response to a worker who asked for his view on a statement by Bernie Sanders,
Democratic presidential candidate, that “billionaires shouldn’t exist.”
“I understand where he’s coming
from,” Zuckerberg said.
“I don’t know if I have an exact
threshold on what amount of money someone should have but on some level no one
deserves to have that much money.”
“I think that if you do something
that is good, you should get rewarded. But I do think that some of the wealth
that can be accumulated is unreasonable.
During a livestreamed
question-and-answer session with employees on Thursday, the 35-year-old
billionaire, who has a net worth of nearly $70 billion, according to the
Bloomberg Billionaires Index, spoke on a range of topics including the types of
fake news Facebook tries to prevent.
“When we talk about
misinformation, a lot of people focus on a statement that isn’t clear if it’s a
shade of true or partially false,” he said.
“There’s a lot of stuff that
people say that is completely false. That’s the thing that I’m really focused
on and making sure that we [stop].”
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