This reminds me of comments made by Apple's first head of engineering, who was also one of its self-described founders, Rod Holt. He was a communist activist w

This reminds me of comments made by Apple's first head of engineering, who was also one of its self-described founders, Rod Holt. He was a communist activist who helped Woz build the first Apple II, and then went on to run engineering and was later involved in the Macintosh project. With the fortune he made on Apple stock, he founded the Holt Labor Library on Geary Boulevard, among other things. On folklore.org, how some of his communist ideas influenced the production at early Apple are described by the Mac team, such as that production should be from each according to ability, to each according to need ( http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Spoiled?.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Spoiled?.txt ) His comments ( https://louisproyect.org/2015/08/28/steve-jobs/ https://louisproyect.org/2015/08/28/steve-jobs/ ) were on, among other things, how Apple really worked in the early days, putting aside business press (or non-business press) mythologies. One of his points of how Apple became one of the largest corporations in the world was that it did not follow the original path of capitalism - commodities for profit, alienated labor and such. He did not care about such things, nor did Jobs, initially, one of the reasons he surmises Jobs was fired from Apple. Holt states this explicitly "We were not producing commodities for the sake of profit. In many respects, even as the company grew beyond all expectations, inertia carried this extraordinary characteristic forward until the Scully era." Of course, most people have no idea how changes in these precepts can affect production, or have any idea what alienation of labor during production is, and can disregard all this, and buy into the latecomer business press view of how one of the world's largest corporations was created, as opposed to listening to the view of one of the five leading people who were there from the beginning, whose ideas influenced (and which were to some extent intuitively parallel to Jobs's and Wozniak's ideas of) production at Apple, and who had a thoughtful account of how such a company came to become a leader in world production.