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MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 9 months agoPulling together all the resources and ideas to make something happen is itself a valid skill. They’re way overpaid for it, but it is real work.
Steve Jobs, in particular, created with help the original Mac and was screwed over by other powerful people in the business. He created the Mach kernel and the NeXT workstation before Apple crawled back to him for help salvaging the business.
He might have been an arrogant prick, but he did have the ability to bring vision into reality, and he helped make a lot of people other than himself wealthy.
We have this thing called specialization in modern society. Do you think an electrician can design and produce a microchip or a math teacher can manage a large corporate entity? We all make choices. Some of us have more options or more help.
AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The accountants and lawyers pull together resources to make something happen, the one that barked the order didn’t. And as for ideas, the world would be a better place if that was left to the scientists and engineers that have the beneficial ones that might actually create or improve something of worth.
“Turn a product you could buy into a subscription you have to rent” has been the most widely implemented “idea” the modern CEO has been inspired to have, aside from laying off the people that made them their money the same week they report record profits. If you call that a skill of any use to society, then we’ll just have to agree to disagree.
MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 9 months ago
And yet, he’s the one who got those products to the public, and many love them. I’m not fond of Apple, but I have to acknowledge success. I’m not claiming he’s a good person. Heck I agree with much you said, but being a business leader is a legitimate role and requires real skills.
AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Factory workers, retail workers, delivery people got those products to the public.
MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Who hired them? Who gave them direction?
MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yep, and they were just about to do it when that scumbag stole their thunder, right? They had the entire design all set and came together as a collective to make it happen, and Jobs stepped in and stole all the money and credit!