These people don't have that money in cash. It's mostly stock options. He probably has 10's of millions in his bank account (wild guess)
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Steve Jobs Ranked as 42nd Richest American With Net Worth of $6.1 Billion
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These people don't have that money in cash. It's mostly stock options. He probably has 10's of millions in his bank account (wild guess)
Right.What he does with is money is nobody's damn business.Love to know what percentage the haters that come out every time is money is mentioned give themselves.
The amount Gates gives will never make up for the frustration and lost productivity is crap operating system.Maybe Jobs has less guilt to assuage.
This just in, Steve Jobs works hard and has made Apple the most successful IT company on the planet. Just cause he works hard and earns money for doing so, no reason to be jealous. He gives hundreds of millions a year to charity, just doesn't talk about in the press to score "brownie points" with the public.
Plus-you could only do it once!Nobody's going to work if the bulk of their compensation is confiscated.
I'll almost bet even money that Jobs has a surprisingly LOW income tax bill. Why? Because by NOT drawing big salaries from Apple and Disney and (probably) much of his personal wealth invested in tax-free and tax-deferred investments, that means he won't pay a lot in taxes up-front every April 15th. 
He could do that, he could give it all away, and it wouldn't matter. We would not remember him for his generosity. He's still here, but when he's gone, we know what we'll remember him for... his contributions to the personal computer, his unbending vision of how we should best interact with them.
Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Give a man a river, and he drowns.
Yeah, it's a jab. But the reality that you can take from it is that anyone can succeed if you're good at it. Love or hate Steve, he's good at what he does and he's proved that over and over.
One guy with visions that have helped transform the modern world multiple times. Think about all the concepts and new realities SJ has introduced to the world these past 30+ years and where we might be w/o them.
Dare I say w/o Mac OS Windows 7 might look a lot more like DOS 5 and people would be a lot less productive than they now are able to be -- productivity being a cornerstone of economic growth. Steve is reaping his just rewards for his work. If you have a societal changing concept, develop it and you'll get your billions too. The thing is those types of people, just like billionaires, are uncommon.
Good for Steve, Bill and all the billionaires in this country. Complaining about someone not giving to charity? Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. People bitching about wealthy individuals are usually just jealous and to lazy to make their own. Stop complaining and go do something about it. I'm happy to see American companies doing well and those who founded those companies rewarded for (in this case) bring us all the advances in technology. Love em or hate em, Jobs and Gates have impacted all our lives. Ok so Windows may not be always in a positive manner lol, but still.
Doesn't matter if you make $5,000 a year or $5 million, you can give to charity. If I was a betting man, I would guess 99% of the people complaining don't give $h/ t to charity. Always looking for a hand out, what in it for me, OMG that app is $.99 cents!! I'll just go torrent that movie... Ya welcome to the "me" generation. Thank god their are innovators in this world.
Doesn't matter if you make $5,000 a year or $5 million, you can give to charity. If I was a betting man, I would guess 99% of the people complaining don't give $h/ t to charity. Always looking for a hand out, what in it for me, OMG that app is $.99 cents!! I'll just go torrent that movie... Ya welcome to the "me" generation. Thank god their are innovators in this world.
This is not a very fair statement since there are a lot of people who work very hard and will never be wealthy. I put a lot of dedication into my work, but I'm still just a lower middle class individual. Some wealth is inherited, some is through hard work and some of it is just luck or being in the right place at the right time.
The thing that is most important is that you like what you do everyday. I have a great job and I enjoy going to work everyday. That is what matters most to me.
Should wealthy people give to charity? Yes they should. I agree that everyone should give some percentage to charity unless they are actually poor and have no money to give.
With the amount of money he's brought to apple and success it is now no one can argue he's earned that. Critisise him alls you want the guy gets results.
You really love Steve, don't you? You just took another bullet for him, he must be proud of you! Well done.
Maybe he follows the late George Steinbrenner's motto: "if you're contributing to charity for the publicity, you're not doing it for the right reason." In which case, maybe he does, and we just don't know about it.
People in this world do contribute and do not feel a need for everyone to know about it.
Who cares. Let him. If that helps him with ideas or motivates him or whatever the hell it means for Apple products, then more power to him. With what he's accomplished, he's got every damn right to be the biggest prick on the planet. Good for him. All that matters is the BOTTOM LINE: more great Apple gear. Not whether Steve Jobs is mean, or nice, or sensitive. LOL, you want to date him or something??
Not if it's Steve Jobs. So many people come to MacRumors to make Apple look bad, the news story could be "Steve Jobs helps little old lady cross the street," and the negative votes would flood in accompanied by comments like "why can't he leave the poor woman alone!"
Meanwhile Bill Gates is doing the Andrew Carnegie thing. Be a royal business SOB who abuses monopoly positions and destroys rivals in petty ways, but hey, end your life by giving money away and suddenly people praise you. People are manipulative saps.
But no matter what Jobs does, it will be wrong. If he gives billions away, the comments will complain, just you wait. On MacRumors, if Apple or Jobs does it, it's wrong. If Microsoft does it, it's good. Hmm...a pattern develops...
Completely agree. I really don't care what the CEOs of the companies whose products I buy are like. I'm buying the product, not endorsing the CEO.
I also think it's kinda funny that people parse gates and slam jobs. Yeah, gates has given a lot away, but even still his personal worth is 9x Jobs'. If you want to measure just by what good comes fro
a donation then gates looks great, but he hasn't exactly burdened himself, has he?
Again, I don't really care because I don't judge people based on what they do with their own lawfully earned money, but I do think it's kinda funny gates gets so much credit.
You're contradicting yourself here. One excellent reason (among many) that your tax is a horrible idea is that the people with that much money are usually very good at generating more money. Take $5b from buffett and you've got a few more bombers to pummel some village in the middle east. Leave $5 b with Buffett and he'll make it $10b and put that money into companies trying to get back on their feet.
what I really would like to hear is what he is doing with his wealth to make the world a better place through his charitable giving. like mr. gates.