Bill Burr Destroyed Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs never took sole credit for inventing anything or changing the world. He always heaped substantial credit to the smart people that worked under him. It's the media and many people that inflate the importance of individual people and attribute everything to them. How many times do they use a star player's name rather than referring to a team by their name? Think "Michael Jordan battles Larry Bird tonight on ESPN".

It's hard to dispute that Apple as a whole has changed the world in profound ways, whether you like them or not. Steve Jobs' greatest attribute was assembling great talent and motivating them into creating great things. Perhaps this comedian doesn't like the way that he pushed people into doing what they felt was impossible.

Perhaps Apple would have changed the world without him, but surely it would have been very different without him. Even though he can't be given full credit by any means, he deserves a lot of it for motivating people and pushing them to their creative limits. Steve Wozniak has been very critical of Steve over the years but also recognized that his contribution was essential to getting products into the hands of people. When you read that Steve Jobs or Scott Forstall was the "creator of the iPhone" I suspect all of them would laugh and vigorously correct you. And they would be absolutely right to do so.

Bill Burr is such a prick but I have to say he really nailed that one.

What did Leonardo DaVinci do? What a waste of a human being. He just made dumb marks on paper with a pencil. Who cares? And we are supposed to look up to this guy? Whose life did this guy save?

Elon Musk didn't do anything. He just told some people to build an electric car. What a dumbass, I am supposed to respect this guy? When is the last time he engineered anything?

Thomas Edison, what an asshole. What did he do anyways? He had some schmuck scientists test a bunch of metal filaments or something.

Anyone who honestly listens to Bill Burr and nods their head in agreement. Really? What is this even doing on Hacker News?