People liked Bill Gates so … IDK.
Comment on Steve Jobs: The difference of stealing yourself vs being stolen from
Kushan@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’ll never understand why people put Steve Jobs on a pedestal. He might have been a very astute businessman , but by all accounts he was a horrible human being and a colossal prick.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 9 months ago
cactusupyourbutt@lemmy.world 8 months ago
what is personally wrong with gates?
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
He’s really awful too, or at the very least he used to be.
He’s done a lot of rebranding himself as being a great guy as of late, and put his money towards some great causes.
But when he was in charge of Microsoft he’d openly treat people like shit, openly steal things, openly do anticompetitive and illegal business practices, deliberately put small companies out of business, and openly bribe politicians to look the other way as he built his illegally-gained business empire.
OscarRobin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
All the recent stuff is him trying to whitewash his image so he isn’t remembered as the bastard he is. Unfortunately, it’s working.
jarfil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
put his money towards some great causes
Don’t forget how much MS lobbied countries all over the world to spend public money on MS products. Plus the anticompetitive shenanigans, it’s more of an our money.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 8 months ago
If you accept his research money (which people don’t seem to do anymore) there are so many strings attached that if you find something you’ll probably be liable even if you give it all up for free.
I’m still waiting for something good coming out of his pocket money spendings for good causes.
kamenoko@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
- He’s a billionaire.
- Cheated on his wife.
- Travelled to Epstein’s Island.
- Got removed from Microsoft for propositioning female employees for sex
- Used Microsoft’s market position to kill off any competition. Remember Netscape?
- His foundation pushed hard to make the COVID vaccines intellectual property of drug manufacturers so they would get richer, leaving the world dependent on them for doses instead of allowing everyone to produce it.
Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Don’t forget the incessant lobbying for charter schools even though nobody wants them and there’s no research to suggest they are better than the public system.
nyoooom@lemmy.world 8 months ago
He’s a giant asshole too (I mean when you look at Microsoft it’s not very positive) but he’s worked a lot on his image in the last decades
Squizzy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Bill Gates does some genuinely great things for humanity.
explodicle@local106.com 8 months ago
With money he got from a monopoly, meaning the money he took plus the deadweight loss are even worse for humanity. Computers would be even better today if it wasn’t for him, and we would’ve produced better things than we have today.
Monopolists “giving back” is insidious because it’s much easier to see what they gave us than what they took away.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I agree with you but he’s not on the same page as Steve Jobs, not in my book. Billionaires can’t exist in a fair system so they’re existence isn’t justified but comparatively speaking he is better than Jobs
We may have better computers but Malaria may be more of an issue, whereas without Jobs nothing of note would be missing other too many biopics.
porkins@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
The standardization of operating systems was an important step though. If there were hundreds of different OS’s on the market, then the PC generation would have stalled. The fact that there were basically only three dominant platforms meant that we could have market stability.
sep@lemmy.world 8 months ago
He have really taken an adolf nobel turn.
gamey@feddit.rocks 8 months ago
He should have copied Jobs and just died sooner!
fer0n@lemm.ee 9 months ago
From what I’ve read he definitely had a strong personality and I don’t think anyone sees him as flawless. But that made for some very funny moments. And he definitely was the person that Apple needed at that time.
1847953620@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Strong is one way to wash over his narcissism, delusions, and the abuse he doled out. And you’re wrong, there’s plenty of people who take the washing-over to a degree where they think he was a genius above reproach. Yeah, let’s focus on the funny moments and brush all that abuse and whatnot under the rug, that’s better. I’m so glad a company got to profit from a sociopath’s leadership in the end, gives me the fuzzies. Could you imagine giving up iphones and iOS for some alternative imaginary version of those products? Oh my.
falsem@kbin.social 9 months ago
I had a former boss who idolized him. Which was... concerning as his employee.
dill@lemmy.one 9 months ago
He used to eat only fruit and smelled like shit, he’s my hero for that one
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Say what you want about Steve Jobs, he’s the guy who killed Steve Jobs
fer0n@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Cancer did. And just because he could be a prick doesn’t mean he deserved to die so soon.
1847953620@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Iono, the kind of prick he was (narcissist who traumatized his own daughter and headed a company which needed suicide nets for the workers who made their product), paired with the fact that he signed his own death from his own deliberate delusions makes me conclude he did deserve to die, in more than one sense of the word ‘deserve’.
Stinkywinks@lemmy.world 9 months ago
He went down the homeopathic route cause science bad
Klear@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
He helped.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Never said he deserved to die. Interesting what words you’re choosing to put in my mouth.
He had a very treatable cancer and chose to eat oranges about it instead. He killed himself with his own hubris.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 months ago
He also washed his feet in toilets. I’m not joking.
STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I mean that is pretty weird but it does actually make sense.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They were public toilets.