You’ve all heard about the current fuss. By definition, the top corporations in the Fortune 500 would be the epitome of evil, right? Especially, such malefactors of great wealth as number 35 on the list?
So why are all these clueless Americans mourning the death of a key major mover and shaker in an evil world of sociopathic corporate kleptomaniacs that Michael Moore wants to destroy and Roseanne Barr wants to behead?
I’ll never get it.
UPDATE: ?A CSM article points out that the “Wall Street protesters boo CEOs, but mourn Steve Jobs.” The explanation seems to be that, well, they like his products:
So what gives? Do Jobs and Apple not count as part of America’s corporate elite?
“Steve Jobs and Apple are complicated,” says R. Luke Dubois, a professor of integrated digital media at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University in New York. “On one side, people are railing against corporate greed, and they’re doing it on iPads from a company that trades at $400 per share…. But the politics of Steve Jobs has always been to give the customer more tools to do what they want: to edit their own movies, make their own projects. And people in the developer community can write their own applications for the iPhone.”
What that means is that the corporate elite are not really the corporate elite if protesters happen to like their products, but the rest deserve to die.
It’s about as logical and reasonable as the protesters’ claim that they represent 99% of the American people.
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7 responses to “Death to evil rich corporate fat cats, right?”
There’s nothing to get. They’re idiots, pure and simple, and nothing from them stands to reason.
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I’m with tdk!
“They’re idiots” was going to be my response as well, but I see I’ve been beaten to it. In that case, I would simply suggest that they are incapable of appreciating irony.
Steve Jobs is a great example of how capitalism makes the world a better place. He got rich, we got iPhones, and we’re all happier as a result of these voluntary transactions. Just don’t try to explain that to any of the iPhone-wielding Wall Street occupiers..
Those wonderful Apple products would be useless bricks w/o the cheap and reliable energy produced by the ‘evil’ energy companies.
“What that means is that the corporate elite are not really the corporate elite if protesters happen to like their products, but the rest deserve to die.” Is this how you interpret wanting a fair tax structure, while mourning and showing appreciation for a brilliant man who died of cancer?” Really? Take a deep breath and look at that again. You’re turning “we want a fair tax structure” into “we want people to die.” Is it any wonder that you are wondering? It’s like wondering why people are asking for melons, when what they are asking for is printer paper.
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