{"id":358,"date":"2006-01-25T10:09:21","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T18:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=356"},"modified":"2006-01-25T10:09:21","modified_gmt":"2006-01-25T18:09:21","slug":"why-bill-gates-is-better-than-steve-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/25\/why-bill-gates-is-better-than-steve-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Bill Gates is better than Steve Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wired.com\/news\/columns\/0,70072-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_3\">This<\/a> is an interesting article comparing the two.  While I don&#8217;t see a person having wealth as an obligation to give charitably, I still admire people who do and look down on people who don&#8217;t.  I&#8217;m fairly disappointed that the 67th Richest American in the world hasn&#8217;t given back to charities.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not to say a rich individual doesn&#8217;t give back to society (almost whether he likes it or not) via:<br \/>\n &#8211; All of the people who work for, and get paid by, Apple Computer<br \/>\n &#8211; The people making money from the stock which he helps drive up<br \/>\n &#8211; All the companies and companies&#8217; employees who exist and profit by making iPod accessories (the entire iPod sub-economy).<br \/>\n &#8211; The amount of taxes he pays individually, and Apple pays on a corporate level, plus sales taxes on their products in the various states.<br \/>\n &#8211; The actual products they make, which people find enjoyable and willing to purchase because they benefit their lifestyles (computers, software, iPods, music, videos, etc).<\/p>\n<p>All that said, an individual worth $3.3 billion should be giving to charities in my opinion, so I think it&#8217;s good that people are writing articles like this to, hopefully, shame him into doing so or reveal to consumers that maybe this guy isn&#8217;t worth supporting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wired.com\/news\/columns\/0,70072-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_3\">read more<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/technology\/Why_Bill_Gates_is_better_than_Steve_Jobs\">digg story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting article comparing the two. While I don&#8217;t see a person having wealth as an obligation to give charitably, I still admire people who do and look down on people who don&#8217;t. I&#8217;m fairly disappointed that the 67th Richest American in the world hasn&#8217;t given back to charities. That&#8217;s not to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian","category-techie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-5M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}