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Steve Jobs-Hippie Billionaire (Original Post) ErikJ Feb 2012 OP
Arab-American, Buddhist, Psychedelic Drug User, and Hippie. nt onehandle Feb 2012 #1
they left out exploiter of people and accomplice to murder roguevalley Feb 2012 #9
I wouldn't say he was a "hippie"... WCGreen Feb 2012 #2
He'd still be alive were it not for his alternate healing regime. joshcryer Feb 2012 #3
Just what I was about to post .. MicaelS Feb 2012 #5
I doubt 'real' hippies would have profited billions from Chinese sweat shops. Amonester Feb 2012 #4
Steve Jobs: the world's first fauxhemian. originalpckelly Feb 2012 #6
also a slave shop owner in China gopiscrap Feb 2012 #7
he was a hippy? madrchsod Feb 2012 #8
When I think of Steve Jobs several things come to mind white_wolf Feb 2012 #10
Erstwhile hippie. progressoid Feb 2012 #11

roguevalley

(40,656 posts)
9. they left out exploiter of people and accomplice to murder
Fri Feb 3, 2012, 01:00 AM
Feb 2012

suicide apparently was beneath his magnificence to notice.

WCGreen

(45,558 posts)
2. I wouldn't say he was a "hippie"...
Thu Feb 2, 2012, 11:35 PM
Feb 2012

The hippies I knew and loved would never have allowed the crap that goes on at Foxcomm to even have been started...

Amonester

(11,541 posts)
4. I doubt 'real' hippies would have profited billions from Chinese sweat shops.
Thu Feb 2, 2012, 11:51 PM
Feb 2012

I mean, hippies who remained hippies.

white_wolf

(6,238 posts)
10. When I think of Steve Jobs several things come to mind
Fri Feb 3, 2012, 01:03 AM
Feb 2012

greedy, slave shop owner, 1%, but never hippy. As for his supposed Buddhism, well his focus on material wealth does not seem very Buddhist, especially considering he gained his wealth at the expense of slave labor in China.

progressoid

(49,917 posts)
11. Erstwhile hippie.
Fri Feb 3, 2012, 01:47 AM
Feb 2012

He gave up on that (and his daughter from his brief hippie days) to focus on himself.

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