Advice to Zuck: Get out of control

If you’ve ever wondered why the Left hates Charles Koch so much, the answer isn’t his libertarian politics. It’s because he has what former Treasury secretary Don Regan liked to call “F***-you money” — and because he says “F*** you!” from time to time. You can lean on some nobody who needs his next couple of paychecks, and you can lean on a little company that is worried about losing a few sales — or on a big company in a mass market that makes it vulnerable to the Twitter age’s stampeding herds of independent minds. But D&G knows who its customers really are.

You can’t lean on D&G. It’s a great time to be in the luxury-goods market: Ferrari dealerships are sold out of new cars — even if you have the money, you might have to wait two years to get a new one. If you want to accessorize that sports car with a Rolex Daytona, there’s a waiting list for those, too. Balenciaga sneakers? Good luck. D&G is going to be just fine. They aren’t going to get bullied by penniless halfwits unless they want to.

There’s a lesson for Zuckerberg in that. He doesn’t have Peter Thiel’s natural Bond-villain vibe or the devil-may-care affect of Elon Musk, the Silicon Valley billionaire most likely to say, “Hold my beer!” He isn’t a natural bad guy — and, unlike Steve Jobs in his heyday, his cool factor is not high enough to get away with too very much in the way of truly outrageous shenanigans. But, just once, I’d like to hear him say: “Well, senator, I have a counter-proposal: How about I run my business the way I see fit and you . . . do whatever it is you do?”