Steve Jobs

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Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 - October 5, 2011) was an American personality cult head technology "innovator," businessman, co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. and Pixar Animation Studios. Jobs is best known for his role in the technology revolution of the 1980's that began with his company's Lisa and Macintosh computers, and Apple's continued involvement in consumer electronics up until his death. He is also incorrectly known as the brains behind the operation; everybody knows Steve Wozniak was the one inventing while Jobs was the one selling.

Steve's career left a mark on many industries, notably for his particular torture management tactics and vision that led to paradigm shifts in film, personal computing, and digital content distribution.

He also refused to pay a non-court-ordered child support requested by his ex-girlfriend, whom he impregnanted, that consisted entirely of a one-time payment of $20,000. This was long after he'd become a millionaire. Even though he refused to have the kid in his life (until much later), he didn't mind naming an entire brand of computers after her and making boatloads of cash from it.

[edit] Woo

Jobs was a fruitarian, of varying degrees of fidelity.[1]

He was diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas in 2004, with the disease eventually killing him in 2011. Brian Dunning has suggested he refrained from proper medical treatment at first, preferring woo, thus hastening his death.[2][3]

[edit] East Asian workforce

Despite being presented as some kind of guru or secular saint, Jobs' company used Chinese and Taiwanese factories whose labor standards were significantly not the same as the West's.[4][5][6] In fact, at one point, Taiwanese workers petitioned Jobs personally about this.[7]

Some 137 workers suffered adverse health effects following exposure to a chemical, known as n-hexane. They claim that the Taiwanese factory owner has not given them enough compensation. Apple did not offer comment on the letter. Five workers, including 27-year-old Jia Jingchuan, have signed a letter to chief executive officer Steve Jobs, asking Apple to offer more help over the incidents.

Some workers in these sweatshops not only held strikes, but threatened suicide if their reasonable demands were not met. Jobs and his successors' response was that starving them made them more efficient workers than in the US.[8] (Just don't complain when your dormitories are found stuffed with the collected works of Karl Marx)

Not surprisingly, he then lectured Obama, in person unlike a certain film director, about how labor standards and unions allegedly stifle economic growth and are the reason Apple outsources manufacturing to China.[9] He also explained. on the phone, that those jobs are never coming back.[10]

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