This is why all of the megarich are selfish assholes.
The good people give their money away.
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And the good people never brag how charitable they are for doing so.
Or they have an epiphany and realize they have, perhaps not ‘fuck you’ money, but at least ‘bite me’ money. Then they sit in a row boat and fish or something. Greed is a pathology and we do a favor to those inflicted with it by taking it away faster and faster the more they steal from us.
The good people don't become billionaires in the first place
You have extra money to name a hospital wing after yourself? Should have been taxed appropriately in the first place so that the hospital didnt need to sell naming rights just to fill a funding gap....
You have extra money to donate to your family charity? Should have been paid as appropriate wages to your workers instead of accumulating in your personal net worth....
All billionaire philanthropy is a failure of policy that allowed them to unjustly accumulate those billions through exploting others, thereby creating most of the problems that they "solve" through their philanthropy later in life
Part of what I liked about Rowling was that she was the first billionaire to lose billionaire status due to donating so much to charity. She had been poor & alone and understood how to support that.
Then she decided fucking over transfolk was her favorite nonprofit.
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I'm a good 15 years younger than Steve Wozniak, but Steve Wozniak has always been a person I've aspired to become more like. He's one of my personal heroes, and I hope to die a man as close to what the man he's always been.
They say not to meet your heros, and it's usually good advice. Imma go out on a limb and say it doesn't apply to Woz.
+1
When I was in college studying Comp Sci I did a whois on Woz's domain and sent an email to the registered email (this was generally before the days of free whois protection), not expecting a response, just mentioning how cool his work on the Apple I & II was among others, and how as a CS student was exciting to see where technology had gotten to, asking him what he was up to.
I got a response a day later, thanking me for my email, talking about how he loved hearing from students, telling me about his current dancing with the stars stuff (this was in late 2009), among some other quips and such.
Felt incredibly down to earth and casual, and while I know it only took him maybe 5 minutes to write that email, or maybe it was even copied and pasted, it was super cool to get a response from such a tech icon.
Gaben also does this
And that's why he's 75 and happy and Jobs is dead and no one will know his name in 20 years.
no one will know his name in 20 years.
I'm not a fan of Jobs but that's quite a claim. No one will remember one of the most successful CEOs of all time in 2 decades?
Wozniak will leave the public consciousness way sooner than Jobs. Outside of tech circles, pretty much nobody knows who he is now.
Sad, unfair, infuriating, but probably true.
People still talk about Jack Welsh's impact on business culture and he retired in 2001.
No idea who that is
He's the reason every big company does mass layoffs to boost stock prices every other quarter
All my homies hate Jack Welch. Glad he’s dead.
He was the chair of General Electric for decades. He was one of the most prominent businessmen of the 20th century. People in corporate management still use his techniques and ideas.
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20 years might be pushing it, but he'd be gone 34ish years by that point. He wasn't much of a philanthropist. Is there any Steve Jobs Parks? Plazas? His early death didn't lend him much time to create a legacy. He'll be known in business and tech scenes, sure, but the pop culture knowledge of him will be negligible. Does the general public know about the CEO of IBM 35+ years ago? The current crop of CEOs are like WWE wrestlers in their persona compared to Jobs. Being present for the smartphone revolution was something, but does anyone remember the CEO of the company that introduced the laptop? Jobs wasn't a Carnegie or Rockefeller.
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Oh what a world it would be if people like Wozniak and Swartz weren't fucked over by their original techbro "friends"
I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns.
Words to live by.
yea this is the guy Elon tried to PR himself as (and possibly succeeded for a while when he wasn't as popular), but shit starts to smell fast.
There are a few real deals out there, but they never get the same attention as the con artists. Apple brought back the wrong Steve.
It was him, not Steve Jobs, who deserved to be Apple's guiding light.
But could he curl his goatee like jobs? I think not!
The Woz is BOSS!
Can we make "secular saints" a thing? Why should we reserve the title of "Saint" specifically for the Catholic Church? I think we should just get in the habit of referring to any unambiguously good person, who has performed great acts of generosity and selflessness, as a saint. They don't even have to be religious. If someone wants to interpret it religiously, they can say that anyone so good is almost certainly bound for Heaven, but it need not be religious. Why can't we have secular saints? Why can't we have Saint Stephen of San Jose or Saint Fred of Latrobe?
Does the word "paragon" apply in this case? That's what I think of when I see someone outside of religious context that I would aspire to emulate.
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I'd love for some kind of "social model of a great human" canonization process... A bit like the Nobel prize, something determined by a committee or something, but it would have to be people that were actual genuine fucking awesome humans.
I'm thinking Steve Irwin, Fred Rogers, etc...
I like this.
Tangentially related - I was thinking the other day about how it seems like the rich used to feel obligated (for whatever reason) to use some of their wealth for the good of the world. But can you even imagine a 'Musk Foundation' or a fucking 'Zuckerberg Foundation'? No because they don't have even an ounce of shame or a shred of conscience. I don't know what it would even take but I do think it's far past time for us to start talking, bare minimum, about their obligations to the country and world that gave them so much.
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I saw the Woz at El Burro Restaurant in SJ once and my wife said: Oh it's the guy from dancing with the stars! 🤦
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Wow, some uplifting news which proves there are still some good people on this earth. I needed that, thanks! <3
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