Oh hell no. Being famous sucks.
Yeah, the toughest part would be convincing my wife that it’s me. Which, as we all know from watching countless “switcheroo” movies, leads to all sorts of double entendres and wacky hijinks.
I think he could disappear without too many hassles. Sure he is very well known but I seem to remember reading that he still walks to work every day, wears scruffy clothes and drives a very average 5-year old car. If he can walk to work without being hounded (when people know where he lives and works so could meet him if they wished) then he should be able to blend back into society if he so wished.
I would think if he moved away, changed his name and got a haircut he could walk down a busy street without so much as a glance.
I don’t really understand what you’re proposing - it seems like you’re agreeing to become him and then giving up all the things that make him who he is as a result. If you don’t really like money, have no interest in running Facebook (or something comparable) and are just planning to live a quiet life in the sticks then why make the change at all?
Would I be able to change Facebook’s policies to be (much) more privacy-friendly? If so, switching might be a small price to pay to make the Internet world a little better. (That’s ignoring, as others pointed out, what else you could do with all the money.)
Sure I would. Then I would shut down facebook, take the money, and run. And spend my cash enjoying my neato male genitalia with hookers and blow.
HIGH CLASS hookers!
Yup. With the caveat that the first thing I would do is sell Facebook to the highest bidder and become a hermit.
Yes. No wife or kids here. Lawsuits are what lawyers are for. Even if a friend IS in it for the money, I’ve got $6.8 billion, so it’s not like I’m going to run out any time soon.
And shit, even if I lost every cent I’d still be the broke MOFO I am right now.
No. Then I’d be a boy, eww, and I don’t think I could convince my husband to swing that way even for a billion dollars.
Yes. Then I’d immediately cash out and retire and let somebody else be Mark Zuckerberg for a while…
Probably not. As others have said, losing your relationship to your siblings, parents and other family isn’t worth the money.
Plus I have no idea what his actual life is like. Riches are nice but tons of wealthy people struggle with depression, addiction and despondency too. All I know about him is he created a web site that became popular.
If I had his money though I’d probably start several research organizations devoted to human health. That’d be nice.
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:
No, I like my own life just fine and I’m not sure that I would like being famous. (Besides, if we’re trading lives, that means he gets mine, right? I feel kind of possessive about my life, and it seems fairly obvious that he wouldn’t live it the way I would.)
No, I want very much to be a billionaire, but I have a really awesome life right now and I don’t know what kind of troubles that guy has. Money doesn’t solve everything, and my relationships with my family are worth a whole hell of a lot to me.
Money solves ALMOST EVERY PROBLEM!!! :rolleyes: Unless someone has psychaitric issues/addictions or a traumatic past, $$$, BY DEFINITION, cures problems!
Yes. Similarly to what a few others have said, I’d immediately sell my share of Facebook and spend the rest of my life goofing off.
Eh, money solves a certain class of problems. It doesn’t solve all problems, nor even peoples most important problems (which ususally involve relationships, family, happiness, etc.). Maybe money helps in some cases, but it is not the cure-all for all that ails ya!
Having said that, I think being MZ would be a blast!
Because I’m pretty dadblasted poor, and would take as much money as I actually needed before doing any of the above. But I know that having any more money would be a burden. And, honestly, borderline immoral, when I could be using that money to help someone else.
I couldn’t in good conscience turn down the offer when I could be giving that money to other people to make their lives better. I’m honestly surprised so many other people can.
While I’d certainly like his money I wouldn’t want to be him.
I don’t agree that money fixes all problems, it’s easy to see just by picking up a tabloid that it creates more than a few of it’s own.
Now if for some reason he decides he wants to give up his life and live in a cave somewhere and he’s chosen me to hand over all his assets and responsibilities too I’m all over it! With my own personal support system I’m sure I can take care of the responsibilities of all that pretty pretty money very well.