re: #120 Hecuba’s daughter

Jobs flaws are more akin to Zuckerberg. AFAIK neither was/is a racist or right wing bigot. Both had interests in developments related to personal use of technology. Not as sweeping interests as Musk has demonstrated although he himself does not exhibit any special technical expertise or knowledge.

I compare Jobs to Musk for the same reason I compare Musk to Edison: They were all men whose contribution to the sciences lay more in the social sciences as they were all really salesmen for the ideas of others. All three men were tinkerers at best, having basic knowledge in their fields but dependent upon others with the skills and education necessary to make the real breakthroughs. Their skill lay in selling those breakthroughs as their own, whether by outright theft as Edison was known for or being the pitchman as Jobs and Musk did.

Without Jobs, it’s possible that Woz might have gone on to be a major name in computing and brought the Apple to market under some existing corp’s brand as opposed to a start-up company. Without Woz, Jobs would have probably ended up in the sales department at one of those corpos or even started his own business in some other field. It took the two of them together to make Apple a reality.