"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

  • SaniFlush [any, any]
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    1 year ago

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

    • neo [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • Judge_Jury [comrade/them, he/him]
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        1 year ago

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

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    • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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      1 year 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

  • HarryLime [any]
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    1 year ago

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

    • buckykat [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • fox [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Steve Jobs had pancreatic cancer, which is among the deadliest cancers you can possibly get. However, it was caught exceptionally early and was an incredibly rare treatable pancreatic cancer. He had fantastic odds for any cancer diagnosis.

        So he decided to not treat it medically and go on fruit juice purges instead, which is the exact diet that aggravates pancreatic cancer.

        • Mardoniush [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          This makes me particularly mad since I've had 2 friends die of Pancreatic Cancer, and it can just straight up kill you in under a month. This fucker actually had a chance and pissed it away.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    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.

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    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      1 year ago

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

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        • timicin@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          the latter is the only thing that matters is is the reason why this asshattery will persist long after either of us are in our respective graves

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            • timicin@lemmygrad.ml
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              1 year ago

              i believe it's that plus people who strive for "fuck 'em all money" never realizing that's what steinbeck meant by his temporarily embarrassed millionaires quote.

  • stigsbandit34z [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    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

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      1 year ago

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

    • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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      1 year 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.

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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      1 year 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.

    • ped_xing [he/him]
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      1 year 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.

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    1 year 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.

  • culpritus [any]
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    1 year ago

    Impending doom just works like magicTM

    Designed in California

  • peppersky [he/him, any]
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    1 year ago

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

  • spacecadet [he/him]
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    1 year ago

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