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He was the ceo of the worlds most profitable (for a while) company. Wow amazing. What a role model?

• rib3ye 5y ago
  It’s observable that it wasn’t “just” about the money for him. He walked away from that company after they sidelined him. Most execs would just rest and vest but instead he rage quit and sunk his own money to save Pixar and spin up NeXT, and at least of those companies had a major cultural impact, so give him a little credit.
• roenxi 5y ago
  Creating highly profitable companies is the only reliable, repeatable scalable and publicly accessible method available for improving people's lives at a mass scale. You could even put exclamation marks after your "Wow" and it would still be literally amazing and he'd still be a good role model.
  • theelous3 5y ago
    This is an insane statement. Have you ever heard of government? Of non-profits? Of individual work? Publicly funded research? This is the kind of statement I'd expect to hear at one of those libertarian meets where they threaten you with toaster licenses.
    • roenxi 5y ago
      Yes. None of them do as much good as a big network of profitable corporations do. When governments or non-profits have been primarily responsible for feeding people there is often mass starvation, for example. Business is more of a hydra that can do many things effectively simultaneously while a government is limited in focus. There is always a need for more competent CEOs. Publicly funded research and individual effort aren't very powerful either, basically the best an individual can do is make an interesting observation that sets a corporation up to actually run with the idea.