# Would you trade lives with Mark Zuckerberg? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 29, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-trade-lives-with-mark-zuckerberg/565702 "2010-12-29T15:11:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-trade-lives-with-mark-zuckerberg/565702/41 "2011-01-06T16:20:46Z")
No way. Changing _lives_ with someone isn’t the same as changing bank accounts with them (which of course I’d do). I like having my own life, thank you very much. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-trade-lives-with-mark-zuckerberg/565702/42 "2011-01-06T16:43:30Z")
Yeah, I’d trade. **1. He probably gets lots of attention. Do you like lots of attention?** Not really, but with that much money, there are ways to avoid it. **2. He has been fighting lawsuits for a long time dealing with facebook. Do you like being sued?** Again, he can pay lawyers to take care of this for him. Billionaire, with a _B_. **3. He is worth billions and most people can recognize him. Can he ever have a friend or significant other that he knows is not in it for the money?** I think you may overestimate how recognizable he is. Even though I’ve seen pictures of him, if I saw him walking down the street this afternoon I wouldn’t look twice. **4. Maybe he has hit his peak, maybe is it all downhill from here.** So what? Billionaire. Game’s over, he won. **5. Interviews are harder than you think.** Don’t have to give any interviews if I don’t want to. Like others have said, I’d simply cash in all my chips and disappear from the public eye immediately after the trade. I can figure out later what I’ll do with my new life. For now, I’m on an undisclosed tropical island and cannot be reached for comment. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-trade-lives-with-mark-zuckerberg/565702/43 "2011-01-06T20:16:59Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > There’s a word for people who claim they don’t want to be a billionaire (and by saying you wouldn’t switch, that’s EXACTLY what you’re saying), the word: LIAR!!! OF COURSE I’d switch with Zuckerberg in a HEARTBEAT! Are you f-ing KIDDING ME? :dubious::rolleyes: There are a few reasons why it wouldn’t work for me. My greatest joy in life is travel. And I don’t enjoy luxury travel. I want to be taking local transit, eating meals with families, hanging out with nomads and really experiencing life in other places. If I had that kind of money, I couldn’t ever travel low to the ground like that. It’d be too big of a security risk…a billionaire is a great kidnapping target. I would pretty much be stuck with quality hotels, secure private transport, vetted locations, etc. It’d completely ruin my favorite thing. Another issue is that I simply do not enjoy attention from strangers. I’ve been in situations where I have received a lot of attention from strangers, and I absolutely hated it. I want to be able to walk into the grocery store in my sweats to buy some cold medicine without anyone on earth caring. And no, it doesn’t help that I can pay someone to walk to the store for me. I want to be a part of the normal real world without calling attention to myself. I don’t want to hide on my estate. Anyway, I’ve got a great life. I wouldn’t give it up for anything. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-trade-lives-with-mark-zuckerberg/565702/44 "2011-01-07T00:45:43Z")
Sure I’d want his money and his youth. But not if I have to be him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-trade-lives-with-mark-zuckerberg/565702.md?page=2)