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"I wanted my kids to know me," Jobs told Isaacson. "I wasn't always there for them, and I wanted them to know why and to understand what I did."

Bro chose his legacy over his kids and spent his last days cloying for validation of that decision rip-bozo

Acting like he's some fuckin' migrant worker forced to leave his family to get them what they need to survive smh

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I thought he was going to regret trying to cure cancer with fruit juice.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I think it is humanizing that he regretted being a total dickwad to the people he knew personally instead of bemoaning his absurd faith in homeopathy. Of course the only people who are able to judge that are his estranged children whom he ignored and disowned.

But I don't wanna miss out on the action, so I judge him unfavorably for being a capitalist, which dehumanizes the laboring classes, and I judge him unfavorably for being an asshole directly to people he didn't even personally know. Steve Jobs was not a good person and is undeserving of the hero worship he receives.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Per his quote, he wasn't apologizing or wishing he'd done anything differently - he wanted his children to validate his decisions

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Narcissists don't regret abusing people around them. They regret the absence of people to continue abusing.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

Also spending a shit-ton of money to put himself higher on the organ transplant list only to find out you don't cure cancer with organ transplants either

[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No shit, he tried to treat cancer with fruit juice when he could have easily gotten the best treatments in history. Real bonehead move.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He also bought an extra house in a different state to jump the organ donation line and then took the donor organ down with him because of the stupid juice thing.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago

I didn't know that, that's insane!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Steve Jobs, renowned as one of the most influential and visionary leaders of this time, left an indelible mark on technology and innovation

Yeah. He set a precedent for decades of other cults of personality where some rich narcissist acts and is treated like a god, and the "innovations" were primarily marketing and monetization triumphs with vertical integration characteristics to push out competition. joker-amerikkklap

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

bro left an indelible mark in his boxers when he crapped his ass to death

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Yeah, his legacy is tech companies fucking over consumers and scams like Theranos

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (2 children)

GOOD

I am sinning specifically so I can go to hell and beat the crap out of Jobs for what he did to smart phones and portable computing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

That's not the reason why I'm sinning but I look forward to seeing that

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Once took an entrepreneurship course in college (dropped it after a couple of weeks) and the gist of it was thinking of “ideas”

Is a CEO just a guy who came up with a good idea and had the resources to get other people involved ~~and~~ to take all the credit

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

CEOs are just idea guys, and as any game developer knows, idea guys are worthless.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Pretty much, being able to "talk well" and having connections are the two main requirements for being in that job area and is why so many CEOs try to mystify the whole process when it's really just being a wealthier conman.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

A CEO is an 'ideas guy' (who are dime a dozen and generally worthless) who has the pedigree and connections to make enough attempts to survive the entrepreneurial lottery and then assign that survivorship to their 'genius' when it could be (and generally is) any number of outside factors.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

You don't even need to be that; you can buy a company started by people who had good ideas, declare yourself the founder and forbid the actual founders from referring to themselves as such.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Total asshole piece of shit who treated both his employees and friends like garbage. Routinely fucked over his own business partners. Good. I'm glad he suffered along every dimension of his existence before death.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

he also treated his family like garbage

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

One of the richest men on Earth and you went out doing citrus enemas because you thought you'd innovated a way around chemo.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

notable ligma victim, Steve Jobs

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

the smartphone was a bad invention and so was the computer fuck steve jobs

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

He invented neither, but fuck 'im for different reasons

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Capitalist loser

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Impending doom just works like magic^TM^

Designed in California

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

The lib praise he received after his death was everywhere and oh so exhausting

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Still dead. I couldn't be happier

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Once had one of those saccharine HR types in the unemployment office go on about Steve Jobs to motivate me. Lady, I do not count this smelly, abusive, Silicone Valley cult leader as a role model. He was so full of himself that he thought he never had to shower and tried to cure his cancer with fruit juice. Who wants that as a role model.

Maybe his cult was what the mania around Mother Theresa was like for aging white ethnic Catholics in the 90s. But for HR types. All a facade of a great person because of a good press team but all rot behind the guilded icon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago