Meta chief executive paid roughly €20m for gothic-style mansion built in 1830 and its surroundings
It stretches the definition of pied-à-terre but Mark Zuckerberg now has a pad in Ireland: Strancally castle.
The Meta chief executive and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have bought the gothic-style mansion and its 178-hectare (440-acre) estate in county Waterford to use as a base during visits to Ireland.
“Mark and his family are excited to continue caring for this historic home and look forward to spending time in Ireland, where Meta maintains its international headquarters,” a spokesperson said on Thursday.
The price paid in the off-market deal is not known but the Irish Times, which first reported the sale, estimated a value between €20m (£17m) and €30m: approximately 10% of the cost of his 387ft superyacht.
Fuck that guy
Mark Zuckerberg is a life support system for cringe.
He’s a monument of vaginal dryness
Has an unusually punchable face sort of demeanor.
Fun fact: Cromwell died from a mosquito bite during one of his campaigns in Ireland.
Dear Mosquitos, you know what to do.
Mosquitos don’t suck android fluid though.
It’s ironic, because that robomofo sucks
Someone has proposed building a monumental statue to honor the skeeter.
I remember reading that not too long ago; which is why I know it’s definitely not a problem to celebrate the mossie that killed that terrible monster.
i presume this is for tax dodging?
Don’t give them so much credit, might turn out to be a very stupid idea like maybe he imagines they can survive in a castle out in the wilderness during an apocalypse.
They have fabs on ireland
… dodging taxes.
Well it’s not the same as like keeping your residence in Monaco by being there just over 180 days a year to pay 0% income tax or something, Ireland still has tax. They just have lower tax because that gets them more tax income as it’s beneficial to have your EU or even international HQ in Ireland.
Tax optimization is a better term, because tax avoidance or dodging usually implies doing something illegal whereas Meta quite literally does have a physical HQ in Ireland.
Also in Ireland they have to pay every year they make profit as far as I know, whereas in Estonia for example they’d only have to pay tax on dividends and salaries, not profits. Meta pays a really tiny dividend so they’d essentially go untaxed on corporate income. Catch is, if they eventually DO want to pay a large dividend, they’d be paying the 22/78 income tax here (it’s called 22%, but since it’s 22% of the gross, but calculated on the net, it’s actually 28% or something, I don’t wanna math right now).
Point being, they’re actually still paying a lot more tax than they could legally be paying, while still staying in the EU.
Reminder that $30m is $0.0bn, to the nearest tenth of a billion dollars. Billionaires should not exist.
I sincerely wish Mark the best of luck for his new home. I hope he spends ten, nay, hundred times as much as he paid for it, on renovating the place and making it fit for him. I hope he truly spends every dime to make this place fit for a modern king.
And then I hope he doesn’t get to live in it for a single day.
I hope he escapes to it when the revolution kicks off, only to find the revolution is in Ireland too, and be gets hung at the doorstep.
Ahh, who am I kidding. Ireland might do it, but he’d never escape there because Americans will never revolt, they’ll just elect a bunch of people who claim to be progressive and end up with the same exact party as before while patting themselves on the back.
Ah yes, the story of Saint Michael’s Castle.
Technofeudalism needs castles for the tech-barons.
Well, to be fair they make pillaging and plundering them much more apropros. I’d feel like a dweeb plundering in the suburbs.
Honestly I’m a little bit impressed, when I imagined the castles of our technofeudalist overlords, I was thinking of some high-tech penthouses high in the skies or enormous yachts in international waters. I never imagined they might actually pick up exactly where the last feudal system left off.
This is such a stupid life.
And he earned that by… Making everyone life worse. That was his contribution to society. He fucked us all and got a castle in reward.
Oh he’s got a megayacht too.
Epstein Castle, opening soon.
I hope it’s full of fairies, banshees, and evil Alabama leprechauns.
May his days there be torture.
might not work on android, as they arnt human.
Fuck you Mark Zuckerberg. Just because I haven’t said it yet, today.
I’m sure this is what the IRA fought for. Independence.
“If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs.”
- James Connolly
I thought that the Irish were traditionally not too keen on foreign assholes coming over and taking their stuff?
Apparently they okay with billionaires. All the while Ireland got a housing crisis.
the classical you should accept unlimited imigrant on welfare cause one rich person bought a home in your country. fuck them all
You know they were talking about invaders, not immigrants. . ? I mean, you only have to know the tiniest bit of Irish history to see that.
not too keen on foreign assholes coming over and taking their stuff
invaders or immigrants ? didnt they burn an asylum center recently ? for wich reasons ?
That was the unionists in Northern Ireland. Think racist white Mississippians, but more inbred and with even worse accents.
Is it racist to not want ppl that need to be said to rape is bad as neighborh ?
One notes the absence of a goddamned data center on the property. Good enough for American backyards, not good enough for him.
May it be a curse to him.
