Why Steve Jobs' Car Never Had a License Plate

[Craazhy]

I don't care if he was privileged or bending laws. But, there are better things to do with money than buying a new car every six months. Some people drive beaters to their 12-hour shifts. Some people don't have cars. Some people don't have food.

I recognize the argument that he earned this money in the same environment anyone else can, but that's no excuse to play god and be a malevolent one.

You can make the argument that the money he paid to Mercedes went to the people that make the cars, but it does not equate feeding them, or the impoverished and shedding a little hope on their lives. The companies are taking too deep a cut of the profits.

I'm not calling him a criminal. There are worse people in higher places. I'm just calling him a little inconsiderate.

 

[Booze Zombie]

Ah, what a shining example for humanity... oh wait, no. He wasn't that great.

 

[Xanthious]

In the 80s, Jobs denied a longtime Apple employee stock options, just because he could

On top of Apple stocks ya know what else that longtime employee probably doesn't have that ole Steve Jobs did? Pancreatic cancer! Ya win some ya lose some I guess.

 

[Marmooset]

So we're done with the blind praise of a man who probably had very little impact on the "revolutionary" products he's attributed to creating? Alright, fine, but it certainly seems rather schizophrenic when you then start digging up dirt on him.

The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that maybe the dirt will continue as he is now known to have criticized Rupert Murdoch.

 

[FEichinger]

Now ... interesting read ...
For the "He is such a friggin genius!!!" crowd:
I agree to the extent of it being awesome criticism to the system. A loophole that should've been fixed long ago, since it is considerably easy to get a 'new' car, even without being rich. (Whilst it IS a pain in the ass)

For the "I don't give a shit" crowd:
Neither do I, really ... Except for the above, there is nothing that makes me care at all ...

For the "HOW DARE HE PARK ON A HANDICAPPED LOT!" crowd:
Are you serious? a) He had cancer ... I recall some states granting status for this already ...
b) I don't know why, but I have yet to see a handicapped care about someone using a dedicated parking lot. But the fact that people who are not, do care and pretend he was an arse over *that* is ... weird.

 

[AusGamer44]

Now ... interesting read ...
For the "He is such a friggin genius!!!" crowd:
I agree to the extent of it being awesome criticism to the system. A loophole that should've been fixed long ago, since it is considerably easy to get a 'new' car, even without being rich. (Whilst it IS a pain in the ass)

For the "I don't give a shit" crowd:
Neither do I, really ... Except for the above, there is nothing that makes me care at all ...

For the "HOW DARE HE PARK ON A HANDICAPPED LOT!" crowd:
Are you serious? a) He had cancer ... I recall some states granting status for this already ...
b) I don't know why, but I have yet to see a handicapped care about someone using a dedicated parking lot. But the fact that people who are not, do care and pretend he was an arse over *that* is ... weird.

As somebody who had to move somebody disabled,while having health issues of my own,I care.My relative used to be REALLY bummed when no free handicapped spaces meant a long difficult trip to the entrance.And Jobs was known to do this before he was ill.

 

[Furrama]

You know, I always thought he was probably an okay person. I didn't know him personally. But before he died all I heard about was how he didn't really invent anything, just repackaged. That seemed... evil smart, but business is business I guess.

Now he just seems like a giant dbag by his own everyday actions, not even touching the business practices. I think Dennis Leary wrote a song dedicated to him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JoKJsjtLxw

"Sometimes I park in handicapped spaces, while handicapped people make handicapped faces."

 

[teqrevisited]

A new car every 6 months? Wonder where that idea came from.

 

[Tireseas_v1legacy]

A new car every 6 months? Wonder where that idea came from.

Why clean out a car every few months when you can just buy a new car?

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

And people wonder why I think highly of Bill Gates and hate on Apple...

 

[madster11]

Man, i wish we had that loophole in Australia.
Could finally ignore speed cameras.

Also, i lol'd hard at the 'fucking dickless assholes'. Lol'd very hard.

 

[Stall]

Bill Gates donates his fortune to charity and to help humanity as a whole, but Steve Jobs buys a new Benz every 6 months.

And why, exactly, was Job's passing so tragic?

 

[rokkolpo]

Gotta say....That's damn sexy!

Never cared for Steve Jobs.
But that is awesome!

To all butthurt people: 'Try to enjoy life'

 

[Funkysandwich]

You know, I always thought he was probably an okay person. I didn't know him personally. But before he died all I heard about was how he didn't really invent anything, just repackaged. That seemed... evil smart, but business is business I guess.

Now he just seems like a giant dbag by his own everyday actions, not even touching the business practices. I think Dennis Leary wrote a song dedicated to him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JoKJsjtLxw

"Sometimes I park in handicapped spaces, while handicapped people make handicapped faces."

This article reminded me of that song too. Good times.

I'm not a fan of Jobs, or his products, but I don't really have anything bad to say about him. The guy's dead, it's not like he can defend himself. Or like he gives a crap about what I think.

 

[minuialear]

Ha!

And to think this guy called himself a Buddhist. Last I heard, Buddhists tried to cultivate a love and respect for all things, not engage in cutthroat corporate behaviour and intentionally nick handicapped parking spaces.

I honestly at this point have more respect for Bill Gates and Microsoft than I do for Steve Jobs and Apple. At least Bill Gates has used his retirement from Microsoft to try and actually change the world for the better. Take the piss out of him all you want, Gates has not only donated vast sums of money to charity, he's been getting involved in trying to find ways to make renewable energy sources (particularly nuclear) more efficient and viable for the immediate future. That's the sort of corporate overlord I give respect to.

Amen.

Also considering how different Windows is from the operating systems that predate it, Bill Gates was arguably the more innovative of the two as well. Gate's company took existing operating systems and built an entirely new way of organizing the information (for better or worse; not going to argue that Windows is actually better than Unix); Steve Jobs got a bunch of people to take things that already existed and put them in prettier packaging.

 

[TheTurtleMan]

I think that I'm starting to like Steve Jobs less and less as the new stories start coming out. Any billionaire could drive a car with a license plate, donate to charity, and not have petty feuds with people in his own business. Although it takes a certain kind of a-hole to do the things that Jobs did. All that I would have to say to Steve Jobs is well played, well played sir.

 

[bushwhacker2k]

So he was a genius, and an eccentric troll?

A fun combination, from the sounds of it.

 

[Custard_Angel]

I never understood why Steve Jobs was preferred to Bill Gates.

Bill Gates donated billions to charities.

Steve Jobs... was apparently a dick.

I guess wearing a turtleneck somehow excuses being an asshole.