I want an iphone because i know something about steve jobs? I want to fuck him or something, is that it?
there's a teeny tiny little job inside the iphone saying, in a high pitched voice, "buy me. buy me. use me use me. flick my screen baby! do it now. faster harder!"? is that it?
i don't get any of this. the ceo of my company was once a sales rep. the guy before him, iirc, worked the printing press or some horse hockey. i don't know anything about severance packages... it's one of those companies that private and not likely to be caught up in this kind of thing. so?
he's still grand defender fo the process whereby my labor is exploited to line the pockets of the share holders. where last year, they cleared 10% even in a downturn, forcing everyone to take a forced furlough, giving up a week's pay, amounting to a lousy - maybe -- 1 million in savings. maybe.
i don't see how using already exists design concepts is innovation. he was just able to take advantage of propsperity: the ability to choose based on appearance rather than necessity. if that hadn't been there - if people hadn't had disposable income, all the innovation in the world wouldn't have meant jack.
really, this article just makes no sense.
steve jobs was a typical CEO or rode people hard and put 'em away wet. end of story.
even if steve jobs was a really nice guy providing people with hot lunches and free daycare and eldercare, and 15 week vacations, he would still have been doing so in order to exploit labor.
> Hey Folks,
>
> Charlie Bertsch takes a curious look at Jobs' politics in today's
> Souciant. According to Bertsch:
>
> "As satisfying as it might be to dismiss Jobs as just another
> overpaid, self-aggrandizing capitalist, however, the stereotypes being
> circulated in the Occupy Wall Street campaign don’t fit him very well.
> He may have been a perfectionist who was overly hard on underlings. He
> may have been oblivious to the suffering inflicted on the people
> building Apple products. But he was never the Old Boys’ Club sort of
> CEO, golfing his way to a bigger severance package.
>
> In other words, though Jobs wasn’t ever a worker in the Marxist sense,
> he certainly worked the company’s products hard. Just as
> significantly, he always advocated that the idea of a particular piece
> of technology — and the narratives into which it could be inserted —
> were as important as the technology itself. That achievement alone
> would be enough to confirm his reputation as a masterful proponent of
> innovation. Combine it with his special gift for making consumers
> believe that they were buying him along with Apple products and you
> end up with a figure who should inspire all of us to “think different”
> about the nexus of labor, technology and identity."
>
> To read the rest of the article:
> http://souciant.com/2011/10/perfect-pitch/
>
> Best, Joel
>
>
>
> On Oct 7, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
>
>> Good piece. However, the FT article in question identifies Mr.
>> Cook,
>> not Mr. Jobs with adding Asian sweatshops to Apple's corporate
>> structure. I wonder how much "charismatic leaders" like Jobs are
>> involved in running companies they "lead." I suspect that in many
>> cases they are just PR figureheads that give their companies a
>> "human
>> face" whereas the everyday business is run by unsavory grey
>> eminences:
>> beancounters and wage slave drivers.
>>
>> Wojtek
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Angelus Novus
>> <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> "None of the eulogies for Steve Jobs are likely to have much to say
>>> about the people who made his fortune writes Liam Mac Uaid. Apple
>>> has pioneered an aggressive anti-union strategy both in the Chinese
>>> factories that manufacture its gadgets and the Apple stores that
>>> sell them. The company’s story is more one of hyper-exploitation
>>> than affable geekery.
>>>
>>> "An article in the Financial Times (FT) lifted the lid on just how
>>> Steve Jobs’ “readiness to humiliate and embarrass others” keeps
>>> Silicon Valley psychologists busy restoring the mental health of
>>> his former employees; how he has created a company which drives
>>> hyper-exploited workers in Chinese factories to suicide and grinds
>>> profits out of the university graduates who work in his shops
>>> “counting their blessings to have a job”.
>>>
>>> "Just because Jobs and his company make the cutting edge
>>> technological status symbols of the 21st century there is no reason
>>> they can’t resemble the mill owners of 19th century Manchester."
>>>
>>> Full article:
>>> http://socialistresistance.org/2457/apples-rotten-core
>>>
>>>
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