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It's amazingly sad to hear that Steve Jobs recently went into semi-retirement, evidently due to overwhelming and unlucky health difficulties.

Because Jobs is a true capitalist hero. He gave the world: computer windows and mice, the Apple II, Macintosh, Pixar animation movies, iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Humanity is incomparably richer and happier because of just this one man. And a grateful planet has made him a deserved billionaire in the process.

Steve Jobs contrasts with the capitalist semi-heroes Warren Buffet and Bill Gates. All three started from nothing and ended up mega-rich, having benefited their fellow man massively thru business genius and stunning capitalist achievement. But Jobs differs from Buffet and Gates in that he isn't a public advocate of the killingly-evil morality of self-sacrifice, nor the loathsomely-evil politics of welfare statism.

It's worth noting that all three business magnates have enormous numbers of employees who are strong New Liberals: whether Objectivists, semi-Objectivists, libertarians, laissez-faire capitalists, or updated classical liberals. The numbers here are wildly disproportionate and shocking. Yet none of the three commercial giants and high-prominence public figures -- not Buffet nor Gates nor Jobs -- openly promote these neoliberal ideals, nor donate to organizations which do.

So all three could stand some intellectual self-improvement if they want to be considered truly and incontrovertibly great. Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs are all genuinely magnificent businessmen -- but philosophical dolts.

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Yes, it is sad that he is having such serious health problems. He's only 56 years old.

Steve Jobs' 2005 Commencement address at Stanford: Text

"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish."

Donald Luskin, in his new book, I am John Galt (look inside), pays tribute to Steve Jobs. The first chapter is: "The Individualist: Steve Jobs as Howard Roark, the man who reinvented four whole industries just because it was so cool."

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