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Bill Gates should be in a "great American humanitarians" series. Why exactly should Steve Jobs be on a stamp? This gives me an idea, Post Office should sell a
by ck2 13y ago
Bill Gates should be in a "great American humanitarians" series.
Why exactly should Steve Jobs be on a stamp?
This gives me an idea, Post Office should sell application fees for stamp ideas like license plates to fund their insane retirement plan requirements.
But then we might end up with confederate flag stamps like Georgia plates.
Of course you can print almost anything as your own stamps legally now. And in the end I think people spend a whole second if any time at all looking at a stamp.
- swombat 13y ago> Why exactly should Steve Jobs be on a stamp? Iconic figure of the late 20th/early 21st century IT revolution? Led a company that was involved in multiple hugely-successful, era-defining products (the Apple II, the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad) along with many industry leading products (the Macbook Air and iMac to name but two)? Had a unique management style - I don't mean the unpleasantness, I mean the laser-sharp focus on a few product categories and on pushing smart people to deliver amazing things that even they didn't think they could deliver - a management style which everyone tries to emulate in some ways these days...? Founded, built up, was kicked out of, came back into and rescued what became for a little while the most valuable company in the world by market cap? Any of the above is reason enough for a postage stamp, of all things. All of them together seem to make it a no-brainer. And yes, Bill Gates no doubt deserves a postage stamp too - but I'd argue it's for his relentless delivery of Microsoft's mission: a computer on every desk and in every home. They achieved it and they changed the world with that.
- j2kun 13y agoI've never found any of these reasons very compelling. Esp. that various Apple devices "define an era." I shudder to think that history will look back on the last twenty years and think primarily of iPads and iPods, and even worse that a manager will be considered the genius behind it all. Certainly he's an inspiration for business people, and maybe that's enough for a postage stamp, but I'd pick plenty of other people before Jobs.
- collyw 13y agoFor all the people ranting how great iPhones are at the moment, just look back 6 or 7 years to the "revolutionary scrollwheel!" rants that were going on back then. Seems kind of irrelevant and unimportant these days.
- artificialidiot 13y agoBecause he made more money than most people though was possible.