Article 1VQRX Who said it: tech CEO or communist leader? Take our quiz

Who said it: tech CEO or communist leader? Take our quiz

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Julia Carrie Wong
from Technology | The Guardian on (#1VQRX)

This week Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to 'advance human potential' and 'promote' equality. But he's not the only tech billionaire in a Che Guevara shirt

Capitalism is catechism in Silicon Valley. The civic religion is entrepreneurism and evangelism is a marketing tool. But for an industry that worships at the altars of the marketplace, the rhetoric of billionaires has gotten a bit confusing.

Just this week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his latest plans to invest $3bn from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, an organization whose mission statement - "Our hopes for the future center on two ideas: advancing human potential and promoting equality" - would not sound out of place coming out of the mouth of a die-hard communist.

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