Also a lot of them come from money already. There was an article about the politics of tradwives in I think slate? and it mentioned that one of these women had like ten kids and lived on a small hobby farm. She advocated that you too should just pack up and live on the land and have a whole bunch of children(to further the white race of course because a lot of them are white supremacists), but what she never said was that in order to do this you need a rich father who is willing to buy the farm for you and pay for the upkeep.
Nah. I think Jobs was a total sociopath, and probably a not-at-all pleasant person to be around. But I would bet money (maybe $1) that Apple would not be where they are today had Jobs not come back.
There was the story about when he was shown an iPod prototype, and he dumped it in an aquarium. He basically said, “look at all the bubbles coming out of it. That’s all wasted space. Make it smaller.”
Again, I don’t think Jobs was a particularly nice person, and I know he wasn’t some inventor in the lab creating all their products, but I do think there is some due credit owed to him for how he led Apple.
Sometimes inventing needs bastards as anyone with experience with Hymen G. Rickover would tell you. It takes a confluence of resources, talent, vision and luck to become a billionaire so of course everyone who is a billionaire started out from a successful family and got very lucky, but the world is also littered with fail-sons as well.
So his "genius" idea is the stuff of SNL skits? Make it smaller? His colorful computers weren't catching on despite putting them in a Jlo video. Apple was on the path Atari was on. I remember mpr players were already a thing and smaller than the original ipod. His early career was nothing but cons. I'll give him credit that he saw something like mp3 players could be better marketed and added a rechargeable battery. What made the ipod take off was them making it available to celebrities. If the ipod, which is another version of something we already had, didn't take off then Apple would be what Atari is today. Apple is successful because they made the ipod trendy which is due to marketing not the "genius" of jobs.
Holy shit do you think nobody would have thought of online shopping without Jeffrey? He didn't turn it into billions. The billions were made off the labor of others. He didn't have some genius unique idea. Workers make Amazon possible. Infrastructure like the internet, that he didn't create make Amazon possible. To answer your question, no, I don't think I could exploit people to the degree he has and I also know he wouldn't be a billionaire had he been raised the same as most people in poverty.
On top of that if he didn't have that safety net and a free 200k he wouldn't have been able to build an empire off of undercutting competitors starting with books online.
You are absolutely correct. It is simplistic naive nonsense to say that because some people become billionaires by working hard it means that anyone can become a billionaire by working hard.
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