Why was Steve Jobs such a rude person?
I once asked him why he gets so mad about stuff. He said, “But I don’t stay mad.” He has this very childish ability to get really worked up about something, and it doesn’t stay with him at all. But, there are other times, I think honestly, when he’s very frustrated, and his way to achieve catharsis is to hurt somebody. And I think he feels he has a liberty and license to do that. The normal rules of social engagement, he feels, don’t apply to him. Because of how very sensitive he is, he knows exactly how to efficiently and effectively hurt someone. And he does do that.
16 Examples of Steve Jobs Being A Huge Jerk
"The voice of the majority is no proof of justice."
— Frederich Schiller (German poet, philosopher, 1759 – 1805)
(Source: routemaps)
Amor mundi // for love of the world: "What is terrible in life goes on somewhere behind the scenes"
“… but we do not see and we do not hear those who suffer, and what is terrible in life goes on somewhere behind the scenes… . Everything is quiet and peaceful, and nothing protests but mute statistics: so many people gone out of their minds, so many gallons of vodka drunk, so many children dead…
"If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people."
— Victor Cousin (via talkingtomakenoise)
You cheat your engineers, treat your employees like crap (no severance), deny your own daughter until you cannot get away with it anymore, harass jobseekers with illegal questions about their sex lives during interviews (and waste their time for your own amusement), take credit for others’ work, cheat your business partner, and scream at/threaten people, and if you have no conscience, you can get away with it regularly.
Since most people aren’t soulless jerks, they’ll be knocked off-base by the treatment and you can move in for the kill.
Best of all, shallow Americans will adulate you solely for your net worth and the labor you berated, stole and smacked out of the real geniuses who work for you — and only the whispered stories in the tech community and a couple of articles about this one will tell the truth about you.
It’s not only Jobs — the highest echelons of business are LOADED with complete sociopaths. It’s why obviously unethical behaviors in Wall Street and elsewhere are so commonplace. Sociopaths don’t care about who they ruin, who they hurt, or the impact of their actions on anybody other than themselves. To them, people are tools to be used, used up, and discarded when they become less useful.
Jobs, like most sociopaths, died very wealthy and very alone.