What changes could be made for the "99%"?
Speaking of Steve Jobs...What really catapulted Apple was the MAC OS, and how did that happen? Xerox spent hundreds of millions of $'s through the Palo Alto Research Center during the late 60's and into the 70's and 80's, out of it come Ethernet, Small Talk and the Ink Jet Printer. But they made a fatal error...they didn't license their developments, they became public domain. Even worse...they didn't know what to do with what they had! Enter "The Steve's", and for free Apple had the beginnings of the MAC, and they made it proprietary!
Fast forward to the Summer of 1996 and "The Return of Steve Jobs"...by now Apple had licensed the MAC OS and clones were sprouting up like mushrooms....what was the first thing Steve did within a week of returning as Apple CEO? Cancelled the licenses! The MAC OS was proprietary again...the rest is history!
So how did Steve do it? Not by being a nice guy but by being a Tyrant! Rockefeller, H.R. Hunt, Bill Gates, Watson (IBM) and others built great Empires of Corporate America, and they weren't nice guys either. Sure it provided jobs and economic growth for America, but these people were definitely driven! It still amazes me that Steve was able to sidestep Bill and dreamup the ipod, iphone and ipad, where was everyone else?
But those guys on Wall Street...what did they make? Subprime Mortages, Student Loans, and lots and lots of corporate compensation!
So what's the moral of the story.......
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker. - Malcolm X