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> we are inarguably better off for Jobs--and countless others--having prioritised their professions over conventional needs

You don’t know the alternate reality where jobs did not do that. Perhaps another company would have done similar things or even something completely different than also improved our lives.

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What other company in 2007 was in the position to do the whole widget that Apple was? We know that Google was just interested in using Android to create a Blackberry clone and Microsoft wanted “Windows everywhere”.

Palm was mismanaged its entire life and kept spinning off and re-acquiring the same assets.

It also ignores the Hitler-types and their negative influence on the world (Hitler was beaten brutally by his father IIRC).

Likewise Stalin was beaten by both of his parents and even threw a knife at his father at the age of 6 to keep him from killing his mother.

Stalin was therefore a sick fuck at the age of 6, so young, so young!

EDIT: That's how a woman I know got her husband to stop beating her, was ready with the knives, said some Shrinktalk quotes (the book may come soon), and the guy...didn't...didn't...have that much of a beating for her in him any longer.

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