"Jobs represents the ultimate freedom to be a jerk. As one Forbes blogger claims: 'Good for him…Those that have the confidence to be jerks, like Jobs, are the ones that give themselves more opportunities to succeed… And nice guys often do finish last.' As a businessman, Jobs did know how to keep costs to a minimum: when he had to make cutbacks at Pixar, he fired people and didn't provide any severance pay. Jobs also had a penchant for parking in handicapped zones, as well as verbally abusing his Apple underlings until they reached their breaking point.
"So what would a city of Steve Jobs wannabes, a.k.a. jerks and 'Stanford assholes,' look like? Well, take a good look at San Francisco, once a flourishing epicentre of American counterculture, and now a self-absorbed corporate colony for the 1 percent."
Christine Jun in Salon denounces the "ongoing deification" of Steve Jobs.
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