Again, the truth is hard to take. This one was deleted 4 hours after it was posted.
Steve Jobs was not a true visionary. He was a tunnel visionary. Otherwise, he would have acknowledged the downside of his own work. Not only the ongoing concentration of wealth and government influence and all of the related socioeconomic issues, but also the growing obsession of Western Society with miniature screens that light up, the health consequences of prolonged use, the scores of traffic accidents caused by multitasking drivers and pedestrians, the growing need for and to date, the utter failure of legislative efforts to prevent those traffic accidents caused by multitasking drivers and pedestrians, the work related accidents, the reduced productivity of gadget junkies, the frequent interruptions and interferences in public places, the growing difficulties of an entire generation to relate with others or even function in society without their electronic gadgets, and the profound inability on the part of millions to be literate.
By the way, your own electronic gadget evidently 'auto in-corrected' the word 'ideologue' in the line following the third paragraph of your last entry. It was not a typo. It was a failed 'auto correction'. Unless of course, you can explain what sense it makes to refer to people as 'ideologies'.
As I have just demonstrated, I don't see only wealth when I think of Apple or any other big business. But the concentration of wealth I do see is very relevant. For example, the publicly traded market is owned primarily by the richest 1% (just over 50%), by the next 4 percentiles (over 30%), and by foreign investors (over 10%). The scraps leftover (well under 10%) are owned by the lower 95% of Americans. From the top down of course.
Like I said, the masses should be supporting small business more and big business less as a very important part of a strategy to redistribute a significant portion of privately held US wealth. Damn right I stand by every word. Not because I am an 'ideology' as you stated with your 'auto in-correcting' gadget but because I am a free thinker.
I'll quote another once again:
"Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society." -Albert Einstein 1949
It was true in 1949. It's even more true today. The issue is of growing relevance. You see, corporate profits have been partially subsidized with federal, state, and local revenue. This benefit has been hoarded at the top. Business managers make up the largest group of one percent club pigs. Again, over 1/2 of the market is owned by the top 1%. Their record territory dividends have been partially subsidized by federal, state, and local revenue drawn from a number of sources. The benefits have not been shared proportionally with the little guy. The lopsided division of household income growth across quintiles proves it.
The income of the highest percentile has grown more than 10 times faster than the middle percentile over the last 30 years. This is true EVEN AFTER taxes. When you account for inflation and the actual cost of living (tied primarily to record high profits in energy, finance, and healthcare), the middle class have actually lost relative buying power while the top 1% have drastically increased their income and bottom line wealth. As a direct result, more government aid has become necessary.
See that Baron? It's a legitimate issue. Your repeated attempts to divert attention and discount the growing downside of big business will not work on me.
It's been well known for many years that small business in general, creates more jobs 'dollar for dollar' and shares a larger portion of it's revenue with it's workforce while big business in general, does the exact opposite.
Again, the masses should be supporting small business more and big business less as a very important part of a strategy to redistribute a significant portion of privately held US wealth. Damn right I stand by every word. Not because I am an 'ideology' as you stated with your 'auto in-correcting' gadget but because I am a free thinker.
By the way, your claim that endangered species "disappear these days at a rate of 25 a day, regardless of our behavior", is another colossal load of steaming die-hard partisan crap. Some disappear regardless but many disappear as a direct result of our behavior. Often because of, GREED.
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Update: I see another pathetic attempt has been made to discredit me by alleging that I resort to complaining about common spelling errors. No. Like I said over a week ago, I don't care about that. If the author of the 'Spellcheck Nazi' entry would read the first paragraph again, it would notice that I referred to the profound inability on the part of millions to be literate, a growing issue resulting from the widespread use of abbreviations created for the purposes of 'instant messaging' and 'texting'. The 'auto in-correction' that I referred to does not indicate such inability on the part of Baron to be literate. I have little doubt that he simply mistyped the word 'ideologue' and failed to notice the 'auto in-correction'. But the default setting of 'auto correction' has been set standard by the industry in order to compensate for the growing inability on the part of millions to be literate. A serious issue which Steve Jobs failed to anticipate early on in his career or even address after it had become serious.
That was the point. Not any concern over a typo.
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Update for Blogspot.com: No Baron, I didn't misread your George Carlin quote. You failed to add the ending quotation mark until after I replied. By failing to add the ending quotation mark, especially after those dotted pauses, you failed to make the distinction between Carlin's idiot remark and your own opinion of it. When you realized that you forgot the ending quotation mark, you added it hoping to place the blame on me for attributing the '25 species per day' line to you. When in fact, it was you who failed to make the distinction to begin with. This will remain true even after you pose as yet another user claiming to have noticed the second quotation mark. Like I've said (typed) several times now. Your tricks will never work on me.
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