Finding a loophole in the system and working out a shortened lease length with a dealership on a $100K car is not a very strong example of a "vain egomaniac". I could also easily argue here a certain "hacker spirit", and that Jobs really valued his privacy.
Would you say the same about people who pay for VPN services to mask their IP address while browsing online?
Is that a car that would be particularly out of place in an Apple parking lot or even in any parking lot in Silicon Valley? I’ve certainly seen way more expensive cars on the lots. If I recall correctly Ives drives Aston Martins and Bentleys.
I'd suggest reading the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson. Humans are complex creatures and a distilled one sentence summation rarely does us justice.
I'm not extolling or making any other value judgement on anyone. I'm saying that humans are complex and the particular human that parent was expressing incredulity about has a detailed biography available that might be of interest.
Would you please stop posting flamewar comments and breaking the site guidelines? We ban accounts that do those things. We're not going to ban you for criticizing $celebrity, obviously, but please stop degrading the thread(s) like this.
I think the severity of the response matches the unwarranted adulation usually heaped on Jobs. Some seem to almost think that he was some sort of minor deity.
> He had no redeeming qualities. He was just an asshole who got lucky and then got rich enough that everyone enabled him.
He was an asshole, and also had a lot of redeeming qualities. They're not mutually exclusive. People aren't 2-dimensional, even if it's easier to pretend that they are.
I don't know, to me it seems pretty hollow, like something the character Gavin Belson in "Silicon Valley" would do to virtue signal to himself to stroke his own ego. Words don't cost anything, especially to yourself.
