Friday, October 7, 2011

For whom the bell tolls

Steve Jobs died the other day. My sympathies for this plutocrat begin and end with the fact that cancer sucks. I’m sorry for his family, but why should I feel anything other than good riddance for a guy who was making leisure products for the overprivileged. All this outpouring of grief is really confusing to me, it’s not like he had a legacy as a person of philanthropy, he didn’t balance the budget, or fight to end poverty, or do anything that had a lasting benefit for society; he was the head of a company whose lasting legacy is that technology should be disposable.

If Bob Iger died next week, should we expect the same outpouring of grief.

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