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contrast that to Jobs' "use my private jet to get first dibs on a healthy liver so I can try alternative medicine and die anyway"

wholinator2 3y ago
I don't know all the specifics of jobs journey but a terminal cancer diagnosis does things to one's mind. My mother took every medical intervention offered her and by the end she was very much wishing she hadn't. Certain techniques the medical field has developed have the effect of really only prolonging the suffering at the very end of life. The whole family including her was begging god to end our suffering, for months.
- oblio 3y ago
  He didn't start with a terminal cancer diagnosis. He ended up with one because he didn't do what he was supposed to do, when he was supposed to do it.
- hajile 3y ago
  He had a contained, super-slow growing pancreatic cancer with a high-90s survival rate if he got his pancreas removed. Instead, he waited years until it had metastasized everywhere and it was too late simply because he couldn't bear the though of someone cutting on him. They then did a far more massive surgery on a fool's errand trying to cut it out of all the places it had gone. Then he paid off a transplant foundation to get a liver that he definitely shouldn't have gotten meaning someone else died so he could get a transplant then die anyway. He's quite a contrast to Woz IMO.
olifante 3y ago
This constant vilification of one of the great figures of tech history is tiresome. Yeah, maybe Steve Jobs was not a great person, but why should constantly overshadow his tremendous successes? Steve Jobs was a forceful and perhaps disagreeable character, but he is one of the clearest examples of how having relentless drive and taste can change the world. Focus less on the feet of clay and more on the giant. And not to diminish Wozniak’s tremendous achievements, but Steve Jobs continuously innovated over the course of decades and had a much greater impact on the world.
- gosub100 3y ago
  It's not about Jobs, its about the life of an anonymous person who would have got that organ but died long ago on the transplant list because he didn't have a private jet. There are other people besides Steve Jobs.

wholinator2 3y ago

I don't know all the specifics of jobs journey but a terminal cancer diagnosis does things to one's mind. My mother took every medical intervention offered her and by the end she was very much wishing she hadn't. Certain techniques the medical field has developed have the effect of really only prolonging the suffering at the very end of life. The whole family including her was begging god to end our suffering, for months.

oblio 3y ago
He didn't start with a terminal cancer diagnosis. He ended up with one because he didn't do what he was supposed to do, when he was supposed to do it.
hajile 3y ago
He had a contained, super-slow growing pancreatic cancer with a high-90s survival rate if he got his pancreas removed. Instead, he waited years until it had metastasized everywhere and it was too late simply because he couldn't bear the though of someone cutting on him. They then did a far more massive surgery on a fool's errand trying to cut it out of all the places it had gone. Then he paid off a transplant foundation to get a liver that he definitely shouldn't have gotten meaning someone else died so he could get a transplant then die anyway. He's quite a contrast to Woz IMO.

olifante 3y ago

This constant vilification of one of the great figures of tech history is tiresome. Yeah, maybe Steve Jobs was not a great person, but why should constantly overshadow his tremendous successes? Steve Jobs was a forceful and perhaps disagreeable character, but he is one of the clearest examples of how having relentless drive and taste can change the world. Focus less on the feet of clay and more on the giant. And not to diminish Wozniak’s tremendous achievements, but Steve Jobs continuously innovated over the course of decades and had a much greater impact on the world.

gosub100 3y ago
It's not about Jobs, its about the life of an anonymous person who would have got that organ but died long ago on the transplant list because he didn't have a private jet. There are other people besides Steve Jobs.