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[–] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 201 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Steve Jobs was the Elon Musk of his time, he just died too soon for everyone to see him for the villain he was.

[–] OscarRobin@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Steve Jobs did at least actually do things. Musk just buys things and claims he did them.

[–] SternburgExport@feddit.de 103 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nah Jobs didn't do anything himself. From Wozniaks first computer up to the multitouch display for the iPhone, all of these things were just bought/stolen/copied. Jobs just knew how to put these technologies into something that would sell.

[–] Restaldt@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So elon but a good businessman

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

without the good, or the (hu)man(ity)

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Just like how Elon did not design his rockets, SpaceX engineers did, Steve did not design the iPhone, Apple engineers did.

Also everyone seems to conveniently forget about the factory workers actually building them.

[–] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] fred@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He invented the rounded rectangle, all hail

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

There's also the flat mouse

[–] instamat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

He was a world-class jump-ropesman, for one

[–] porkins@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

This sells Musk short. He is making smart entrepreneurial decisions for the most part. I hate the monkey testing controversy though.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

did he ever reconcile with his kid? hard to imagine just ignoring your own child like that...

[–] nuxetcrux@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Who, Elon or Steve? /s

[–] SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

he just died too soon for everyone to see him for the villain he was

Oh he died soon enough.

[–] Korne127@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Woah; that's just so wildly inaccurate; I have no idea what to even say.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He did father a child he denied to the day he died, intentionally screwed Woz out of his fair share of the apple fortune, killed himself by treating cancer with quackery. Jobs is probably more self made, but that's about it.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He did not deny her until the day he died. She even lived with him during highschool, and he named a computer after her, even though he made up a bogus acronym to pretend that wasn't his motivation.

Woz was worth $500m at one point and is worth $100m today. It's not like he was cut out of the game, he just wasn't interested in money or success the way Jobs was. Without Jobs drive for success, Woz would never have shared his inventions with anyone, it was just a private hobby to him.

Steve was definitely an asshole, but there are plenty of valid criticisms to levy at him, you don't need to misrepresent anything.

[–] RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

’s not like he was cut out of the game, he just wasn’t interested in money or success the way Jobs was.

You really buy that? That's some bullshit someone says when they got fucked over and know they'll lose and come out worse if they try to get what's rightfully theirs.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Woz himself has said as much. The guy has more money than he'll ever be able to spend. He's fine.

[–] RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Woz himself has said as much.

That's why I said:

That’s some bullshit someone says when...

Don't get me wrong, I don't give a shit about the contentedness of any of these treasure hoarding shitdragons, but there never has been and never will be a person who is fine with getting ass fucked out of hundreds of millions of dollars. Even Muskrat is throwing an endless tantrum and fucking up people's lives over a bad deal, even though he did it to himself on purpose.

[–] jarfil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

there never has been and never will be a person who is fine with getting ass fucked out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Hi, you don't know me... but for a single hundred million dollars, you can ass fuck me out of as many hundreds more as you want.

[–] RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a deal.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Not to stand up for jobs, but from what I've seen of woz, I can totally believe he wouldn't see more money as worth the bother. From what I've seen: If you're making 36k a year, your are obsessed with opportunities to get more, no matter who you are. Your life is financially difficult and any chance to overcome that is worth it.

If you are making 200k a year, you start seeing different sorts of folk.

Some will not stop until that number is as big as it can be. Their lives will be consumed by that as a "high score"

Some care less about money and more about titles and conspicuous status symbols, like a coveted office.

Some are happy to just do their work the way they like without having to worry about the money anymore, or to work on hobbies and afford to walk away from working.

I know folks that are 200k as "bird in the hand" money and chasing bigger numbers is worth considering, but they are more concerned about risk to their perceived status or working conditions than pay.

Take one of those last sort of folk, get them to tens of millions of wealth and they are likely happy to just stop thinking about the money, even if it means they are sonetimes the chump as a result.

[–] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's true, he was not nearly as bad as Musk. I was mainly talking about how he's a general asshole who steals from others and is revered by techbros. I was maybe being a bit hyperbolic in my comparison.

[–] Korne127@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

I don't necessarily agree with that, but I get this point (in contrast to how you phrased it before), so fair I guess.

But just one thing:

is revered by techbros I actually don't know any people who revere Musk. I know this is dependent on the bubble, but at least with Jobs being generally seen pretty favourable and Musk seen extremely unfavourable by most people, I think there's a big difference.