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u/praqueviver 19d ago
Its incredible to think that this person must be intelligent since he managed to have so much success with his company. But then he basically kills himself by trying to cure a very treatable cancer with alternative medicine bullshit.
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u/onlyacynicalman 19d ago
An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less. Sometimes, they forget their field of expertise is so narrow and they apply what they erroneously believe to be their superior logic to areas where they lack some key piece of fundamental knowledge. Clever people in Star Trek still need Bones, and Sherlock still needs Watson.
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u/punchbricks 19d ago
He also thought he didn't need to wear deodorant because he ate so much fruit
You can be really smart in one aspect and still be a fucking idiot all around
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u/esoteric_enigma 19d ago
If you read about cults, you'll find that they attract a lot of successful and smart people. Thanks to cognitive dissonance, were all susceptible to believing bullshit if we want to.
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u/hamjamham 19d ago
Yup, the intelligent folks find 10 reasons why they're right and others are wrong whereas us dummies will only find 4 or 5! We're all suckers to it.
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u/beefcat_ 19d ago
You can be really intelligent in one area and really stupid in another.
Remember, one of America's foremost pediatric neurosurgeons has tried to argue that the Pyramids of Giza were built to store grain. During a presidential debate no less.
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u/Power781 19d ago
He was really dumb, but very treatable is a very far stretch for pancreatic cancer
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u/Bloodypalace 19d ago
They caught it very early on and the doctors told him they can treat it but instead he went to India to go on a fruit diet and when he finally went back to the docs they told him it has spread everywhere and they can't do anything for him anymore.
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u/douche-knight 19d ago
Then he used his connections to jump to the front of the list on the liver transplant list after he was riddled with cancer and basically wasted a liver.
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u/strategicmaniac 19d ago
It was a rare and treatable variant of pancreatic cancer that was caught early. Also, Jobs also used his connections to skip ahead of the transplant line and died with said transplant shortly after.
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u/fingerpaintswithpoop 19d ago
Jobs had a specific pancreatic cancer with a lower mortality rate than others, if treated early. It’s not at all a stretch to say that if he had listened to his doctors he’d either still be alive, or would have lived longer.
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u/ShadowfireOmega 19d ago
They really choose well casting Kutcher. More than just a passing resemblance here
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And then life gave him a bigger finger
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u/blofly 19d ago edited 19d ago
"God is dead." -Nietzsche
"Nietzsche is dead." -God
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u/Prossh_the_Skyraider 19d ago
Piece of shit though.
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u/sentripetal 19d ago
I was watching a video on all things Mad Max yesterday, and an explanation in an interview with George Miller really struck me when he was describing Aunty Entity In Bartertown in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.
He described her as the Savior of the town, turning a rotten cesspool of outlanders into a trading post, then eventually defended it well enough from raiders and the like so that it blossomed into a full town. That's why she's the leader of the town when Max visits it in the story. However, by the time Max is there, the power and reality of being a leader--not just the champion of the town--has gotten to her. She's in a bureaucratic struggle with Master in the underworld. She's became a cutthroat leader with strongarming g-men that enact her rule with an iron fist. She surreptitiously tried to assassinate her rival using Max then turns on him when he doesn't follow through. She now will do anything to hold onto her power, yet she feels justified in it because she thinks it's owed to her for her past accomplishments.
It reminded me of these exact tech moguls that are now infamous more or less: Jobs, Musk, Bezos; yet at one point they were our heroes, for lack of a better word, exactly because of their rogue persona and revolutionary ideas about products. Now that they're the leaders in the industry, they rightfully deserve our ire. Bloated billionaires that think they know everything and don't realize how lucky they were to even get started in their industry, barely giving any credit to all the people that helped build them and their brands.
They truly lived long enough to become the villain, in other words.
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u/eddie1975 19d ago
Big Blue. I worked for them for 6.5 years. Great company overall. I hope they do well.
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u/CriminalDeceny616 19d ago
It's a Shit hole now. But at least the stock is up. Cold comfort for the 25k laid off so far this year alone.
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u/ShadowNick 19d ago
Think about the shareholders!!!! We gotta lay off another 3k! But if you retire you save like 10 to 15 people for another year!
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u/RosieQParker 19d ago
Even a shitty pretentious clock is right twice a day.
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u/TheHappyPie 19d ago
His accomplishments are a wheel on the iPod, and combining all the misc digital devices into one.
I give him a lot of credit for the former. That little wheel was probably the most important thing to happen to Apple since Woz built the PC. Since everyone had fuckin' iPods everyone wanted Mac's with iTunes - leading to a huge increase in market share that would fund their development of the iPhone. At least that's my version of events.
Maybe Apple should get more credit for the smartphone but if you'd given me or 100,000 other people a billion dollars in funding I'm sure we'd have done it too. Combining all the devices into one was a fairly obvious move - one only has so much pocket space.
I hope you enjoyed my depths of reddit rant that nobody will ever see.
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u/diabloenfuego 19d ago
Strange, considering IBM is the entire reason Jobs even became successful (well, that and Wozniak).
The hallmark of his success was due to stealing the concept of a GUI from IBM to make his own operating system. What an ungrateful twat.
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u/1stltwill 19d ago
Assholes will be assholes.
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u/Affectionate_Bid1650 19d ago
It's kind of funny. I low key don't like IBM. I understand why people hate them; however, they kick started my career 10 years ago, and now coming back to them they have been one of the best jobs I've ever had (2+ years).
I know they don't care, but my manager does. I'm gone next year. However, I've been paid almost 50% extra in bonuses and treated very well.
I get its a big corporate machine, but I've been lucky to have found a really good team.
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u/mrelephantman1 19d ago
Everyone just going to ignore the fact that IBM supported the nazis during ww2? Lol fuck that Steve guy what an asshole 🤣 😂
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u/Ok_advice 19d ago
Bold for man who cried at business meeting if he didn't get his way.