Schizophrenia? #OccupyWallStreet and MoveOn.org love pro-free market, billionair
Volitzer:
Schizophrenia? #OccupyWallStreet and MoveOn.org love pro-free market, billionaire CEO
Todd Herman
Daily Caller
October 10, 2011
It’s no surprise that Steve Jobs worked until six weeks before he died. Nor is it shocking that he left behind a secret gift to Apple, its shareholders, and its employees: a four-year product pipeline, a reverse time capsule for future generations to open and see what will be — versus looking back to see what was. This is what creative geniuses do, and it is how Jobs defined tech-cool and masterminded the single greatest comeback in corporate history.
What is shocking, though, is the reaction of the anti-free market left. Liberals are celebrating the life of Steve Job — a multi-billionaire businessman — at the same time that they’re calling for the death of capitalism. With one hand the bloggers at The Daily Kos are calling for the figurative roasting and eating of the rich; with the other they’re celebrating the life of a CEO who did everything the Kos kids say is both evil, irresponsible, and hateful. Meanwhile, the Occupy Wall Street gang and their backers at MoveOn.org are doing the same thing.
Some of this is due to the brilliance of Apple’s marketing: Apple charged more than any other PC maker, but its products were so coated in cool — in color, culture, and the x-factor — that the company not only got away with it, it conquered the world.
Speaking of conquering the world, Jobs had a kick-ass business mind. For instance, when AT&T refused to share part of their per-minute revenues, Jobs forced the issue, not by sharing nicely with others, or explaining that it wasn’t fair, or that it hurt his feelings, but by threatening to go it alone, to take it offshore: no splits on the per-minute-revenue, no iPhone. AT&T’s only way out of that deal was to pay Apple a huge amount of money.
Oh, and remember how Steve Jobs dealt with the unions striking and refusing to write code? No one does, because Apple’s prized employees were never unionized. Nor are Facebook’s, Google’s, Microsoft’s, or Twitter’s.
What so many on the left don’t seem to understand is that Jobs wasn’t motivated by a desire to serve the collective. He designed these products, sold them at the highest possible price-point, with the cheapest cost-structure (including labor), to produce the highest margins for his greedy, capitalist backers: the moms, dads, and kids he never met, but who, through their 401(k)s, pensions, and savings accounts, owned a piece of the huge profits that Jobs worked until he died to earn.
Thank you, Steve Jobs, for designing beauty and being a brilliant, happy capitalist.
Todd Herman is a dad, husband, and digital media pioneer. He has been a start-up founder and CEO, angel investor, Microsoft executive; and chief digital strategist at The Republican National Committee. He is currently at work on another start-up.
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Austin Heller:
Steve Jobs was a great inventor and people like him because he helped create the Iphone, the Ipad, the IMac, etc. We like him as an inventor the same way we like Edison or Tesla.
Just to clarify, NO ONE is talking about liking his business practices. He moved his manufacturing over to China, didn't like unions and was hard on his employees. One of the places over in China was actually a part company/part dorm that the employees were so miserable in that they had to put up nets all around the building to keep the employees from committing suicide!
So, conservatives are all welcome to embrace that part of his legacy (all of them liking death and all), but liberals don't have to. If that is what their skewered version of capitalism is all about, they can have it, I'll gladly be called a socialist any day.
Tom Hebert:
That true, Austin. We live in a socialist society, but many people think socialism is a bad word.
Of course, rich people don't have to worry about getting their next Social Security check or help with their medical bills, but if you're eighty years old and living on cat food, it makes a difference.
Does anyone really want to go back to the days of sweatshops and street urchins?
Krista Davenport:
Volitzer does! That's what Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Romney and the rest of the rich Republican goofballs are all about. Too bad we can't just boot out all the rich out of this country and disperse all the money they stole back to the middle class and the poor where it belongs. Petty, money-grubbing a@@holes.
Volitzer:
NO I DON'T !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :o
Capitalism shares the wealth disproportionately, while socialism shares in the misery equally.
I am all against the kleptocratic wing of the Republican Party that aspires to turn America into Mexico and China.
Aside from Dennis Kucinich, I was watching C-Span the other day and Sen. Sherrod Brown D from Ohio, was really bad-mouthing free trade agreeements in the Senate and made a good 45+ minute speech yesterday about these corporations that open up in places like South Korea but outsource to slave-labor N. Korea. As well as corporations that go to Equador and the workers can't afford to buy the products that manufacturers are making cuz of the slave wages.
Socialism is never the answer when dealing with kelptocracies. Some economic safe-guards like tariffs and quotas are, you know minimizing the effects of foreign kleptocracies but not killing trade all together.
You Democrat Party members shoulf get Sherrod Brown and Dennis Kucinich to run and get Obama and Biden the hell out of there. Then you'd have a respectable chance of winning the Presidency.
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