Comments on: The Book of Jobs

By: Whadayawant

Whadayawant — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:34:45 +0000

Getting a bit tired of this whining about foxconn. The chinese spent 4 billion on art last year alone.
“The richest 70 members of China’s legislature added more to their wealth last year than the combined net worth of all 535 members of the U.S. Congress, the president and his Cabinet, and the nine Supreme Court justices.The net worth of the 70 richest delegates in China’s National People’s Congress, which opens its annual session on March 5, rose to 565.8 billion yuan ($89.8 billion) in 2011, a gain of $11.5 billion from 2010, according to figures from the Hurun Report, which tracks the country’s wealthy. That compares to the $7.5 billion net worth of all 660 top officials in the three branches of the U.S. government.”

Who is responsible for taking care of their people? Us or china. Why are we responsible for keeping people under an unelected government happy, they should be unhappy with their rulers.

45 million americans are on food stamps and the yuppies in america work over their guilt by crying over foreign workers, its an interesting pathology on display here.

By: RodBanner

RodBanner — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:26:56 +0000

I’ve spent the bulk of my life helping technology firms to sell overly complicated products to irritated customers who just wanted to get stuff done. Steve had such drive and clarity of vision about turning complicated computers into simple consumer products that he became king of “complexity quenching”. As a result, his life left humanity enthralled with technology and the products that he helped to create have opened new possibilities for so many people in so many ways. He may not have always been the easiest person to deal with but Steve’s legacy is Apple and the world would be a much sorrier place without it.

By: T-EN

T-EN — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 08:22:57 +0000

What a Grrreat article.
Superb composition.
Thanks very much.

By: StarryGordon

StarryGordon — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 03:41:35 +0000

An excellent article, and an antidote to the hagiography. May you soon be more fully employed so that we can read more of your stuff.

In my experience, most successful entrepreneurs and showmen are like Jobs in having a reality distortion field — he was not at all unique in that characteristic, although his was particularly powerful.

By: JimThorp

JimThorp — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:08:52 +0000

The only reason the cancer was found in the first place was that Jobs had been having intestinal issues so severe that he finally had to undergo abdominal scans.

His cancer had almost certainly metastasized by then.

So while the progress of his cancer wasn’t as quick as ‘traditional’ pancreatic cancer, stating that chemo/surgery would have cured him is doubtful.

Maybe he would have had a few more months or years…

By: ChicagoFats

ChicagoFats — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:39:14 +0000

Fascinating article but would have benefited greatly from a little more editing. I would not accuse the author of being concise, a virtue she does not find in the book. Is this a book review or an unauthorized biography? Is her issue with Jobs, or Isaacson? Or both? Carping aside, I enjoyed the alternative dissection of Steve Jobs’ life. Maybe Maureen Tkacik should consider doing a more thorough job in book form. With a promise to stay on topic.

By: OmarAlexis

OmarAlexis — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 05:52:20 +0000

This is a painfully passionate dissection of what she believes to be the legacy of Steve Jobs; one devoid of fairness or objectivity in my opinion. I wrote a lengthy response to Maureen on my blog at (not spam, it’s a not for profit blog where I typically rant about technology and my chronic disease: Cochlear Hydrops):

http://www.fadingaway.org

By: sergei.yakovlev

sergei.yakovlev — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 01:16:43 +0000

Maureen, you don’t get it.

By: ReallyDisgusted

ReallyDisgusted — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:46:55 +0000

Steve Jobs was born a turd, lived as a turd, and died as a turd. He should have been cremated and his ashes flushed down a toilet.

By: paintcan

paintcan — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:17:35 +0000

@hacimo – The world wants vampires? You mean – when it gives up on brains it tries to keep itself alive on blood, always other people’s blood?

You are an idiot! The last ten years has been a feast for vampires worldwide and has spilled enough blood to fill oil tankers. If you are young – you will have a long life ahead of you being fed on by the new world economic realities. Hope you like company logos as a reflection of your personality and identity?

Hope you have fun! Try to stay fit and do your company exercises. In your new world order there will be nothing so despised as emaciated, half dead walking bags of blood. And vampires don’t believe in burial for anyone but themselves. You won’t even get the funeral orations this SOB got? Sucker!