7.9 percent of your fellow Americans won't go to work tomorrow due to unemployment. And you whine about being approached by a well-paying company like Facebook?
Stick your head out of the valley once in a while wont you, I think you will grow with the experience.
My teacher told us that a monad is somewhat like a recipe of an action. A set of instructions without a real purpose of return. So you have to create them under different terms than functions. A function is more of a specification with a constant result, ie put in 2 get 4, regardless of state. It is the combined power of monads and functions which grant access to the more interesting features of a functional programming language.
It is not that different though — Is your point that it is slightly easier to hide from surveillance cameras? Even the hidden ones?
"operated by more reputable entities than some random creep", you know you're talking about companies in a capitalist society, right? Not exactly famous for being particularly reputable to say the least.
I find this as interesting as Katy Perry voting for Obama. There are about 4.2 billion (60%) people living in Asia. If they weren't affecting the U.S. — something would be very odd. I am not surprised that they're doing well as they are not forced to emigrate.