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Comment by SpaceManNabs | Hacker News Reader

I rarely see tech hero worship pushback on here. I hope to see more of it.

We are all human after all.

There's always plenty of pushback everywhere, all the social media apps are full of critics and hate on anyone who does anything in the world mercilessly. I like coming here to see people admire other people who worked hard to create something that made society better, and not spend as much time criticizing every little wrong thing they did.

>create something that made society better,

How is society better off thanks to Steve Jobs? Are we better off now with everyone addicted to their phones for dopamine hits?

>not spend as much time criticizing every little wrong thing they did.

Using slave labor, creating mass addiction and environmental destruction via planned obsolescence, is a "little thing" to you?

Are you declaring Steve Jobs a God? Did he create all the apps you're addicted to or a wonderful tool that lets you access almost all of humanities history, can connect you with loved ones across the world in real-time, play music, movies, it's a compass, a map, etc. You can use a hammer to create or kill, and you blame the blacksmith for the dead.

You use slave labor everyday, so you don't have much wiggle room to judge.

>You use slave labor everyday, so you don't have much wiggle room to judge.

I didn't use slave labor to become a billionaire and people don't worship me.

Unlike you I don't virtue signal nor bootlick CEOs. I see the world as it truly is.

'Tech hero worship' is a gross misrepresentation of my comment and I'm not sure how you could draw that conclusion from a comment that used words like "asshole" and "vindictive" to describe Steve Jobs.

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