How do you explain Steve Jobs, who stepped into the nearly bankrupt Apple and tr...

jessaustin · on July 5, 2015

Can we identify any laborer anywhere whose lot in life was improved by St. Steve's miraculous revenue growth?

a3n · on July 5, 2015

I don't understand the question, relative to my statement.

WalterBright · on July 5, 2015

Steve Jobs created enormous wealth, using the same group of people that were working just as hard before, but were headed for bankruptcy.

I.e. it's not about how hard or long one works. It's about working effectively.

a3n · on July 5, 2015

He didn't make anything. His wealth, and Apple's wealth, would not have happened without the labor of all those people who actually made the products.

Scenario A: "I want to make iPhones. All you people at Apple, and all you people at FoxConn, get to work."

Result: iPhones and wealth.

Scenario B: "I want to make iPhones. I wish I had some laborers."

Result: Nothing.

Scenario C: "We workers want to make something. Mr Jobs, we hire you as our manager. Get to work, and sell these things."

Result: maybe iPhones, maybe what we have today, maybe something else.

Ideas and management are great and necessary, but not sufficient and not exclusive.