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AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 1 year agoPulling together all the resources and ideas to make something happen is itself a valid skill.
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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Factory workers, retail workers, delivery people got those products to the public.
MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Who hired them? Who gave them direction?
MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 1 year 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!
AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes, he and thelittle owner’s club did indeed steal the workers thunder, as our intentionally rigged economy is designed to maintain in perpetuity. The iphone was just the latest cycle of keeping the workers separated from the means of production, aka meaningful capital.
Steve Jobs’ “skill” was being receptive to repeating the vicious cycle of giving almost all the profits of products his engineers developed to the people who already exploited/coerced/stole the worker’s money last time and the time before that in exchange for his class traitor cut for selling out the other people like him that didn’t come from wealth, which just propagates the little owner’s club having more while ensuring the non-owners continue to not benefit from what they invent, discover, build, transport, etc.
I’m sorry that impresses you, but of course the major media the oligarchs own and the K-Colleges of Economics curriculum they dictate indoctrinated most Americans to find their grift very impressive.
cnbc.com/…/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-americans-…