Originally Posted By: Prometheus
A capitalist billionaire died.


 Originally Posted By: the Right
Why do you dislike successful people so much?


Talking Points 101. Keep the politics in the Poli forum, G.

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Whether you, personally, like his products or not, me made his money by creating things that many people found enjoyable and useful.


Yes, he created a lot neato entertainment gadgets. His company created everything else of any actual importance. Besides that, what level of importance should I give to his passing? 70k other people died today, too. Why aren't we mourning them the same?

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He wasn't an investment banker or the usual occupation you rail against.


I'm not railing against him. I'm railing against the ridiculous overly dramatic sainthood people on Twitter are going on about. Like I said before, I don't remember him being some great humanitarian whose purpose was to "improve humanity". He was a guy that got rich off being a good salesman, and then famous off the back of his Apple engineers. Like I said before, Rest In Peace fellow human. But, you know....big deal.