I read the Isaacson biography, and it was pretty clear that money was NOT Job's main motivator; it was a means to an end to him. He really wanted to build "insanely great" things and see his ideas transform the future.

He almost went broke in some cases by funneling his own money into projects. Somebody who values money wouldn't part with it that long for a gamble.

He was driven to see his concepts turn into products people wanted badly. In his mind, the future was his orchestra to conduct his way.

One can arguably compare him to great movie directors who drive those around them insane trying to put their vision on screen in careful detail. It gave us masterpieces like 'Odyssey 2001, but many of the project "minions" used up their Excedrin (or 60's equiv).

"Greed" is not quite the right word. "Obsession" is more like it. Maybe there is a word or phrase that means "obsession to the point of harming others"?

Perhaps in his mind, progress is more important than comfort, a kind of social darwinism where struggle for survival is a "necessary evil" to be a viable species. Or it may merely be narcissism, or a combo: those who don't aggressively scrape to be at the very top spot "deserve" to be stepped on: A+ or death.

but, but, she blinded me with science!

It appears that one key to Apple's rocketing "success" under Jobs was that he knew he was dying soon and burned bridges left and right in order to grab as much early-mover market-share as possible to gain leveraging power for Apple.

People couldn't blame his bad moves on Apple itself because the dude behind it would be worm-bait when it all came out such that the reputation of the company wouldn't take such a huge hit. He was a voluntary shock-absorber.

We also have the employee "poaching" situation in addition to this Ebook move. I bet more will come out someday.

One has to give Jobs credit for using every weapon at his disposal, including death. His slimebaggery was masterful chess (except maybe for ignoring doctors).

and even more in Blackburn Lancashire.

They are invisible, haven't you read Adam Smith?

I for one welcome the rise of the Recursion Party.

counter-arguments typically are that charity and compassion will kick in...

What often happens is that during deep recessions, charity and compassion dry up because most are in tough or uncertain circumstances. Thus, charity and compassion are lowest when they are most needed.

Who do you sue if the company that polluted has long gone out of business?

Part of this is due to the rise of companies like Uber and Tesla Motors, blazing-hot start-ups that have been opposed at every turn by protectionist regulators and trade unions

Which are often backed or put in place by big traditional companies trying to keep out competition.

Try rebooting it.

didn't include a single piece of data to indicate an end to...

'cuz the data renaissance is also ending

Then vote to have it released

This will not only trigger Global Drying, but Republicans will deny it's happening, making it hard to do anything about it, and Koch bro's will buy up moisturizer lotion companies to profit from it.

But the laws of physics are the same Timbuktu such that you can be replaced by inexpensive overseas engineers.

I honestly don't know what's future-proof. Even manual "creative" labor can be done by remoted-controlled robots when bandwidth gets cheap enough.

Perhaps tell her to stop trying to second-guess the future and just pick what she likes and learn a variety of related skills surrounding that topic, including technical, physical, business, and sales.

WonderMan prior art:

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