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David Roberts
@volts.wtf

In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ... ... listen to Steve Wozniak.

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Bluebry
@ndages.bsky.social

Very similar to the Jerry Garcia philosophy, opt for fun. Probably more engineering and less chasing the dragon. You know what I mean. Woz is cool.

bcvega.bsky.social
@bcvega.bsky.social

This is so refreshing. "$10 million plus a couple of homes" is more than enough to make someone comfortably wealthy for life; accumulating more than that is just a pointless dick-measuring contest.

Ti'ana
@tiana-atr.bsky.social

Wealth tax of 100% of penny above $100 million. If they complain it gets cut to $50m. Every subsequent complaint the total they're allowed gets cut in half again.

Frogbat
@dr-frogbat.bsky.social

Wozniak created great things for the pure joy of creation. The same is true of a lot of the people who built the tech so much of the internet relies on. The first linux kernel was written as a challenge, just a flex, no money involved. 1/

Frogbat
@dr-frogbat.bsky.social

The same is true of many of the tools that made the internet so useful early on, including the first web browser. Wikipedia still runs on that principle. Creating excellence just for the pure satisfaction of it makes a much better product than relentless greed.

Ryan S
@rstef.bsky.social

For the life of me I just cant imagine having some ungodly amount of money like $100s of millions of dollars and saying to myself, the priority in my life going forward is to try to double it.

Procrastinator at large.
@veeforward.bsky.social

It's bizzare. There are so many things I'd like to try & do if I had that kind of money. So many things I'd try to donate to/set up to try to make things better. & these tech jokers just don't. Most of them are just broken brained losers who got lucky.

Dr Elisabeth Kosters
@elisabethkosters.bsky.social

I’m no Steve Wozniak. I’m 73, retired in a house that I own, with a fabulous view across the bay, in a town with wonderful people. I’m on fixed income but it’s a good one. I can’t travel to Antarctica but I can see my grandkids a few times a year and travel a bit. What more does one want? #grateful

Marc Jacobs (he/him)
@trollball.bsky.social

In the mid-80s, I was in line behind him at Tower Records in Mountain View. He was buying records. He had an account at the store. The clerk did not recognize him. He calmly produced ID. No drama. No ego. It didn’t occur to me to do some fanboy thing. He was just there, being a normal person.

Erik
@stampy.org

I worked for a company that was the largest buyer of fusion-io drives and they blew away absolutely all other options for making our big cache servers persistent through reboots without a 15+ minute flush time on shutdown. I missed a chance to meet Woz because of timing and have always regretted it.

waterly.bsky.social
@waterly.bsky.social

Woz is the real deal, but many of them will turn it into a game to take as much as they can and hoard it like a king. We the people can change those rules in America, with tax policies that incentivize innovators but not allow them to become billionaire parasites. We can insist on a better world.

IYKYK 🌮
@handle.invalid

FWIW I work in public service and most of my colleagues are genx; people with public health, social work, economics, and statistics degrees all just making modest incomes and doing what needs to be done. We're out there, but you've never heard of us (unless you attend county board meetings).

IYKYK 🌮
@handle.invalid

There are quite a few Millennials in public service these days as well, but it's for sure weighted heavily toward the 45-60 crowd just sort of making everything you take for granted operate, and fighting for funding to keep it all going. It's not an exciting life but it is a fulfilling one.

4quad
@4quad.bsky.social

It's not a generation thing. Successful people content with what they are, or have, live a charmed life and have always been the minority.

Dr Grace S Peng
@gspeng.bsky.social

The Woz attended UC Berkeley and finished his undergraduate degree while I was there. As a courtesy, he introduced himself to professors in early semester office hours explaining why he was using an assumed name. Choosing Cal over Stanford when tuition costs are not a problem is a value judgment

rkm14.bsky.social
@rkm14.bsky.social

The other Steve is one in many billions and that is <1bpm, rarest of the rare. Focus on your childish emotions on Musk, Theil, etc instead of exaggerating like an 8-year-old 🤷‍♂️.

Jännät
@jaennaet.fi

You probably have the cause and effect the wrong way around: amoral psychopaths are more likely to end up being rich, instead of the other way around. This economic system is practically designed to benefit those kinds of people

gleaftus
@gleaftus.bsky.social

Andrew Carnegie gave away 90percent of his money before he died. Now he was no angel, but he did fund a lot of important civic institutions which have enriched the lives of many many people. Current tech bros fall far short.

Lenny D.
@lennydrew.bsky.social

He's a gem of a person. In listening to the Behind the Bastards podcast about Steve Jobs, I learned that Woz cried when he learned Jobs had stolen from him in the Atari deal – in a book about Jobs decades later.