Originally Posted by Shotsie

Agreed. I posted this in another thread, but it's worth repeating:

I fucking hate the postmortem worship of this monomaniac who was revered because he was obsessed with work, and loved scornfully busting other people?s balls if they weren?t obsessively working for him. People are always posting that stupid fucking Stanford address, they worship this guy like he was the second coming of Jesus Christ. The fact that this type of malformed quasi-human is a ?hero? is why there is no way to have any kind of life in this country without being dedicated to work to the detriment of everything else. We worship people who worship work and money. We scoff at people who don?t want to work hard. Which is to say, every person with a fucking soul.

They made a big dfucking deal about Jobs? last words being ?wow... oh wow? as though he were fully comprehending the infinite universes contained in a single flower petal. But I bet he was remembering some fucking regression formula he had browbeaten some underling into coming up with that successfully calculated the bare minimum you could pay some faceless Shanghai serf to bend a lead wire ten thousand times per day before they threaten to jump off a building. I bet he was calculating the compound interest on that bonus he fucked Wozniak out of forty years back and becoming one with the dazzling power of exponential growth. I bet he was remembering how he?d fucked over some corporate rival and gotten them to fold ? like, he?d heard the news that Adobe Flash Player was finally tanking. Whatever it was, you can one hundered per cent god damn guarantee that whatever Jobs was oh wow-ing about as the cancer of his soul finally became corporeal was some monomaniacal thing having to do with work, money and ambition.

By the way, if you told me on my deathbed that my children and grandchildren would never have to restart their browser again because adobe flashplayer had another update like they do every five fucking minutes, my final words would probably also be, "wow... oh wow."