from Hacker News

Meta spent nearly $27M on Mark Zuckerberg's security in 2021

by asjfj9 on 5/8/22, 3:34 AM with 13 comments

• by londons_explore on 5/8/22, 9:07 AM

  Paying for someone's security is mostly a tax dodge.

  Mark won't be paying any income tax on the cost of that security detail.

  And a lot of things are vaguely related to security in some way, so can be put on the security budget.

• by asimpleusecase on 5/8/22, 6:18 AM

  That level of intrusion has to make his life miserable. No real solitude, constant interference with plans, no spontaneity. The modem form of the gilded cage.

• by missedthecue on 5/8/22, 4:26 AM

  He's probably the most hated tech CEO out there.

• by boeingUH60 on 5/8/22, 7:55 AM

  I also recently read about the US government paying $2 million per month [1] to protect Mike Pompeo,the former US Secretary of State under Trump, due to Iran threats.

  Must be head of state level security these guys use.

  1- https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/us-pays-2m-a-month-to-...

• by FinNerd on 5/8/22, 4:24 AM

  Good. Perhaps even more would be justified. CEOs who can run a company at FB-scale are in depressingly short supply.