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I don't know how to understand it for you. You could make claims like that about anything. You could equally claim "Have a nice day" is a threatening remark.
by dijit 3y ago
I don't know how to understand it for you.
You could make claims like that about anything. You could equally claim "Have a nice day" is a threatening remark.
You have to be spectactularly stupid to think that not making software faster is going to cost people their life.
But it could, across a population, cost entire lifetimes worth of time.
So yes, it's important to consider your software's cost to humanity.
The issue here is that you're rejecting a clear explanation of your externalities.
Stop rationalising the externalisation of your costs; they still exist even if you don't enjoy being confronted with it.
- JohnFen 3y ago> The issue here is that you're rejecting a clear explanation of your externalities. No, the issue here is Jobs making a legitimate point in the most emotionally manipulative way he could think of.
- dijit 3y agoHonestly I couldn't possibly disagree more. Pointing out that you're stepping on toes is not emotional blackmail. Emotional blackmail is either direct: “If you hang out with your buddies tonight, I will pack my bags and leave you.” or indirect: “I don't even spend time with my friends because I want to spend more time with you." What Jobs is doing is pointing out a fact. That it hurts you this much informs me more of your developmental attitude than it does about Jobs being an asshole. Which he was, but not for this.