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I saw this headline on the wonderful 'net.

Apr 17, 2018 12:00AM PDT

CNBC
"It costs $20,000 a day to protect Mark Zuckerberg"
No time to read further. Is it spent on thugs and bulletproof limos, or techs to keep up with the ever-changing privacy settings?

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People with that much money
Apr 17, 2018 10:09AM PDT

...have to build a prison around themselves, so they won't be kidnapped for ransom demands.

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That's a lot
Apr 17, 2018 2:41PM PDT

He must be pretty paranoid. In the Guardian it was mentioned he bought four houses around his so he would not be "bothered" by neighbors. (!)

Rick

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Yeah, that was sometime ago.
Apr 17, 2018 5:37PM PDT

His company got rich by just skirting the laws on datasharinf, but he can't stand a neighbor peeking over a fence.
BTW he had a 'reason' for it; nothing to do with wealth or arrogance.

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Mr Z
Apr 17, 2018 8:22PM PDT

Lives on a different planet than I do.
It would never occur to me to spend 20K a day on anything.

I would not be surprised to find that his tax types have found a way to write this off as a business expense.

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Of course.
Apr 18, 2018 1:36AM PDT

He's the business, and it's expensive to keep him alive.