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Steve Jobs (a) accumulated only about 25% of Bill Gates' wealth, and (b) died. I haven't heard news about where his money went, but I haven't heard they spent i
by gohrt 13y ago
Steve Jobs (a) accumulated only about 25% of Bill Gates' wealth, and (b) died. I haven't heard news about where his money went, but I haven't heard they spent it paying people to self-flagellate or rape each other or overtake a nation by force. He just worked his whole life and bought a couple of nice houses and a nice car and traveled, and then willed away his money to his wife, who spends her time doing high-society philanthropic dabblings.
- cma 13y agoI hold don't it against him, but you are mischaracterizing a bit to say he only bought some cars and a house: https://www.google.com/search?q=steve+jobs+yacht https://www.google.com/search?q=steve+jobs+yacht https://www.google.com/search?q=steve+jobs+plane https://www.google.com/search?q=steve+jobs+plane
- scholia 13y agoWhen you say "bought a house", you mean "bought a historic mansion", then left it to rot while he lived somewhere else. It rotted to the point where it was eventually torn down. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Steve-Jobs-historic-Woodside-mansion-is-torn-down-2474921.php http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Steve-Jobs-historic-Wo...
- _mulder_ 13y agoHistoric?? It was 86 years old, hardly worth worrying about. If you want to see a real 'historic mansion', come to Europe.
- CanSpice 13y agoIt was designed by a noted architect for a copper baron. It doesn't matter how old it was, the fact that a famous architect designed it means it's got history associated with it, therefore it's historic. There's no need to get ageist with your buildings. Yes, Europe has old buildings. That doesn't detract from the fact that buildings in North America, even if they're fewer than 100 years old, can be considered "historic".
- prawn 13y agoContext matters. It doesn't need to be a pissing match and "hardly worth worrying about" is a crappy attitude.
- dredmorbius 13y agoGiven that, travelling through Palo Alto, one can still see one of the two "tall sticks" after which the town was named, that white men hadn't set eyes on the San Francisco bay until January, 1770, and much of what had been built in the area was destroyed in 1906, an 86 year old structure, particularly with ownership and design significance, can indeed be considered "historic". Though I am well aware of family residences to which I've some association on other continents approaching 500 years in age. History and longevity are also not universally revered: in Japan the tradition is to destroy and rebuild temples frequently (every 20 years in the case of the shrines at Naikū and Gekū).
- drzaiusapelord 13y agoI'm so sick of the "humble Jobs" meme. This guy bought himself a super yacht and seems to have had a anti-charity attitude, which would fit in with his otherwise Ayn Rand laden cut-throat philosophies. Remember, this is the guy who emailed the execs at other companies to keep engineer's salaries low and threatened the guy at Palm if he didn't play along: how? Via a lawsuit from his patent arsenal. Jobs was a right bastard. Ask anyone who worked with him.