Peers? He ends by comparing Jobs to oil executives.  Oil companies are ridiculously subsidized by the US government in many ways, the most egregious being the

Peers? He ends by comparing Jobs to oil executives.  Oil companies are ridiculously subsidized by the US government in many ways, the most egregious being the use of the military to secure major pipelines at the cost of trillions of dollars and many lives.  Those subsidies end up not-so-indirectly as the compensation for said executives.  Apple is a company that takes raw materials and ideas and manufactures some of the most desirable products in the world.  If everyone wants to give him their money of their own free will, what's the problem?  Oil companies don't give you a choice.  Even before purchasing a single drop of gas, each American has literally given them tens of thousands of dollars by way of taxes and the deficit. They are vilified for a reason. Just because they have similar orders of magnitude of money doesn't mean that the same moral judgements need to be made of them. The whole article is a disingenuous troll piece. Another example is the initial appeal to the universal hatred of software patents. Yes, IP laws are horrible when it comes to software, but it is ridiculous to claim that Apple's riches are dependent on them. The author is grasping to associate Jobs with the standard "evils."