Zuckerberg, much like the arrogant and unsophisticated brewer who built the mansion Gatsby bought.

Zuckerberg appears to view his neighbors, not to mention the rest of US, as peasantry or the serfdom. m/r

"I walked out the back way — just as Gatsby had when he had made his nervous circuit of the house half an hour before — and ran for a huge black knotted tree, whose massed leaves made a fabric against the rain. Once more it was pouring, and my irregular lawn, well-shaved by Gatsby’s gardener, abounded in small, muddy swamps and prehistoric marshes. There was nothing to look at from under the tree except Gatsby’s enormous house, so I stared at it, like Kant at his church steeple, for half an hour. A brewer had built it early in the “period” craze, a decade before, and there was a story that he’d agreed to pay five years’ taxes on all the neighboring cottages if the owners would have their roofs thatched with straw. Perhaps their refusal took the heart out of his plan to Found a Family — he went into an immediate decline. His children sold his house with the black wreath still on the door. Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry."
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg replacing 4 next-door Palo Alto homes

By Jacqueline Lee  5-20 16

PALO ALTO -- Four houses surrounding Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's home in Palo Alto will be demolished and replaced by smaller ones, according to an application filed with city planners Tuesday.

Zuckerberg bought the homes in the Crescent Park neighborhood in 2013 after he learned of a developer's plan to build a house next door tall enough to have a view of Zuckerberg's master bedroom.

Concerned about privacy, Zuckerberg paid more than $30 million total for the properties.

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