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Yeah, its kinda bleak to see

• I horded my wealth like a dragon and used it to burn down all the neighborhoods in my area, because the money drove me insane

• I wadded up my money into a basketball shaped bundle and just started tossing it anywhere that seemed politically correct and popular

That said, Wozniak did the best with the hand he was dealt. He kicked a bunch of Apple employees in on stock options long before it became company policy. He threw a bunch money into tech museums and art schools and colleges (which California's state and municipalities have been underfunding in order to subsidize the private tech sector for decades). He invested in environmental R&D and even kicked some money into the effort to prevent Kessler Syndrome - which is, again, shit best served by a collaboration of G20 nations, not just some random rich guy from California. But hey, here we are.

Maybe capitalism wouldn't be dogshit if we inverted the number of Wozniaks and Zuckerbergs. But also, maybe, billionaires (and heaven help us, trillionaires) were a bad idea to begin with.

And the good people never brag how charitable they are for doing so.

Or they have an epiphany and realize they have, perhaps not ‘fuck you’ money, but at least ‘bite me’ money. Then they sit in a row boat and fish or something. Greed is a pathology and we do a favor to those inflicted with it by taking it away faster and faster the more they steal from us.

The good people don't become billionaires in the first place

You have extra money to name a hospital wing after yourself? Should have been taxed appropriately in the first place so that the hospital didnt need to sell naming rights just to fill a funding gap....

You have extra money to donate to your family charity? Should have been paid as appropriate wages to your workers instead of accumulating in your personal net worth....

All billionaire philanthropy is a failure of policy that allowed them to unjustly accumulate those billions through exploting others, thereby creating most of the problems that they "solve" through their philanthropy later in life

They say not to meet your heros, and it's usually good advice. Imma go out on a limb and say it doesn't apply to Woz.

+1

Gaben also does this

no one will know his name in 20 years.

I'm not a fan of Jobs but that's quite a claim. No one will remember one of the most successful CEOs of all time in 2 decades?

Wozniak will leave the public consciousness way sooner than Jobs. Outside of tech circles, pretty much nobody knows who he is now.

There are a few real deals out there, but they never get the same attention as the con artists. Apple brought back the wrong Steve.

One of the rare birds you kinda got to let slide with his wealth. To the best of my knowledge he hasn’t used that wealth to abuse people.

Does the word "paragon" apply in this case? That's what I think of when I see someone outside of religious context that I would aspire to emulate.

I'd love for some kind of "social model of a great human" canonization process... A bit like the Nobel prize, something determined by a committee or something, but it would have to be people that were actual genuine fucking awesome humans.

I'm thinking Steve Irwin, Fred Rogers, etc...