Steve Jobs & LSD

[TangerinO]

Whatever Steve Jobs got from LSD it certainly didn't make him any better a man. Apple were "employing" slave labour in their Chinese factories - making 15 year olds work 80 hours a week for 52 cents an hour. Apparantly they were banned from taking a piss or a shit during their working hours (15 hour days). While that sack of shit Steve Jobs was sat at home with 6.5 billion in the bank. What a caring, compassionate man.

If acid was what made Steve Jobs the man he was then god help us.

I would also make the argument that Apples products are only good at all because of the amount of die hard users doing their work for them.

How many apps are made by the users of the product? Most of them.
So in return for his customers making the iPhone into something more than a shiny touchscreen gimmick machine with their dedication and coding skills, Steve Jobs turns around and decides he will force his consumers to go through apple, and then mark everything up disgustingly, giving them no choice but to be ripped off.
The only way you can get around this is going through Amazon, and yeah it's like pretty half price, that's how much apple mark up their products.
And after all that profiteering from his loyal consumers who were nice enough to say "Don't worry Steve we love you so much we'll just write these apps for free, and you can take all the credit for it" he thinks to himself, you know I'm just not scrounging off human misery quite enough yet, I might employ some slave labour children, so not only can I rip off all of my loving fans and admirers, but I barely have to pay for it in the first place as well!

Eh I hate apple, I'm bias and aware of it, but they are a slimy company that have built their empire on clever marketing and that's totally cool, but slave labour, greedy mark ups and the fact that I have to hear from every single person I meet how incredible the iPhone is and how it's changed to world, is most definitely not cool.

Nothing has changed you can just access the internet on your iPod Touch now instead of having to walk your ass to a computer.
Oh yeah and you can buy one that's a bit bigger too, that really changed the world that one.

tl;dr... rant over

 

[synchrojet]

Every experience contributes to our choices and perception of reality. LSD factored into everything, including his designs and creations. The question is not whether it had an impact or not, the question is how much of an impact it had. I tend to agree with those who postulate that his LSD experience was typical of first timers and occasional users - namely, it did not induce an ego death. A mind like his would have definitely responded to an ego death in a significant way - he would have commented differently on the experience, in other words. LSD can certainly augment one's creative abilities, indeed, it can augment other mental abilities, but it can also be an inhibitor of certain functions, especially if misused. It's a powerful tool, and as such, has a definite impact. It can harm and it can help. It's all in the application.

 

[Delsyd]

I heard his salary from apple was $1.
But he owned something like $45 million worth of disney stock.

I wonder if he ever ate acid and watched fantasia while musing over the iphone7