"""Unless you have an argument that Steve Jobs promoted materialism and slavery more than the average human and whoever replaced him in the commercial world, your gravedancing is illogical, beyond its crassness."""
Well, I'm as much an Apple fun as everyone, but: he was a ruthless businessman, leader of the one of the biggest companies (if not the biggest in market cap) in the world. If you think even for a momement that that is compatible with not being MORE materialist than the "average human", then I don't know what to say.
In fact, his whole life he placed extreme emphasis if not in money itself (which is not the be all end all of materialism), to material items. He devoted his life into building and selling material things.
In the process, he exploited cheap labor (when you have the highest profit margins and the largest cash stash in the industry, relying on cheap chinese works in 19th century conditions and not increasing their pay IS the very definition of exploitation), backstabbed those he could (Woz for one), and treated his averaged employee like "a means to an end" instead as people (from the programmers, who got the better treatment, but still were underpaid and forbidden to work for rival companies with secret deals, to the tons of industry and retail employees).
Well, I'm as much an Apple fun as everyone, but: he was a ruthless businessman, leader of the one of the biggest companies (if not the biggest in market cap) in the world. If you think even for a momement that that is compatible with not being MORE materialist than the "average human", then I don't know what to say.
In fact, his whole life he placed extreme emphasis if not in money itself (which is not the be all end all of materialism), to material items. He devoted his life into building and selling material things.
In the process, he exploited cheap labor (when you have the highest profit margins and the largest cash stash in the industry, relying on cheap chinese works in 19th century conditions and not increasing their pay IS the very definition of exploitation), backstabbed those he could (Woz for one), and treated his averaged employee like "a means to an end" instead as people (from the programmers, who got the better treatment, but still were underpaid and forbidden to work for rival companies with secret deals, to the tons of industry and retail employees).