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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
yeah, no, i don't think jobs is admired because he had money, but rather by pushing technology forward to revolutionize the way we live and work, the same way people admired edison or graham bell. yes, jobs wasn't an inventor proper, we live in a different era now, but he was great at marshalling engineers into turning geeky things into simple stuff a dumbfuck could operate, and with his devotion to aesthetics, turning clunky shit into beautiful design.
for the record edison had ahdh and he'd come up with a shittillion ideas but he didn't follow them through-- his minions did that.
anyway, it's the fucking creativity that people are applauding.
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But like you just said, he wasnt creative, he was organised. He took stuff that other people had invented and packaged it in a more appealing way.
People like Thomas Edison and
Clive Sinclair have some respect in that there were probably thousands of inventors like them who never made it and toiled away in obscurity, and they probably had a level of dedication that i can admire somewhat. Marketing men will play the percentages and if it doesnt work theyll find another way of making money.
If you wanna make money, fine, just dont expect me to admire you or any of your boilerplate cod-philosophy.