Another 1,000 acres added to an already massive compound.
But who could forget tech oligarch Mark Zuckerberg’s explosion on our surf scene some five-ish years ago. The almost-real-boy has, since, become a mainstay on these very pages with even artificial intelligence declaring, “BeachGrit is a website known for its surf journalism and humorous, often critical, takes on the surfing world, including its interactions with prominent figures like Mark Zuckerberg. The site has frequently covered Zuckerberg’s surfing activities, often with a playful, critical lens, highlighting his forays into foil surfing and his cultural appropriation of surf terms.”
Very fun though, it must be noted, the surf great Kai Lenny actually has more interactions with prominent figures like Mark Zuckerberg and shared, “His awkwardness definitely makes people assume things and by hanging out with him I got to know who he really was and he’s actually a really good athlete, surprisingly. He’d run six miles every morning, he’s been doing rowing since college days, you know he runs the biggest social media network on the planet, and I don’t know enough about coding and all the stuff that he really does to make a judgment of that. I think it’s impossible to make everybody happy. But what I know from just hanging out with him personally, it never felt weird at all. I have a lot of respect for anybody who puts themself you know outside their comfort zone and wants to learn something new.”
Well, like him or love him, Zuck, as he is known on Instagram, is continued a wild buying spree on the island of Kauai, adding another 1,000 acres to the over 2,000 acres he already owns. According to Yahoo! Finance, locals have mixed feelings. Zuckerberg’s publicist declares the people love him because he provides construction jobs and allows the workers to sign ironclad NDAs.
Others, however, not so charitable with Puali‘i Rossi, a professor of Native Hawaiian studies at Kauai Community College, saying, “If our island has any hope of remaining Hawaii, this kind of activity has got to stop. Eventually Hawaii isn’t going to look like Hawaii anymore — it’s going to be a resort community. Are we really thinking about 100 years from now, what this island is going to look like?”
Zuckerberg, for his part, also has his Palo Alto neighbors enraged.
Question: Are you glad for the likes of Zuck buying up paradise and privately enjoying or angered?
David Lee and I discussed, anyhow, during our other weekly chat and also got into alien talk. Enjoy.
