Summary
IT was a scene that would have delighted both the business head and the hippy heart of Steve Jobs. In New York and other US cities yesterday the Occupy Wall Street protesters came to chide capitalism. In doing so they were armed with youthful indignation and the essential tools of the modern revolutionary - iPhones and iPads. They might be this century's sans culottes, but they'd never leave home sans their "stuff".
The co-founder of Apple was the creator of that "stuff". No ordinary creator, as the reaction to his passing proves, but then Jobs was never just the acceptable face of capitalism, he was the beloved face of a certain business.See the full content of this document
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Capitalism, Be Ruthless and Pitiless with Yourself
One has to go back to Andrew Carnegie and Thomas Edison to find a similar response. By the time Carnegie died he had given away some $350 million and a life not without controversy had a substantial legacy of good. The Scot donated his way into the public's affection, while Edison, a ...
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