#stevejobs
Die wirkliche #Geschichte der kapitalistischen Epoche verlief freilich weitaus weniger rosig und #Wissenschaft und #Technologie spielten eine äußerst zwielichtige Rolle in ihr. Eingespannt in das System der Plusmacherei gaben sie die Mittel zu einem Zweck her, der weitaus profaner war als die aufklärerische Idee einer universellen Vervollkommnung der Menschheit. Wie #Marx im #Kapital ausführlich zeigt, bietet jede Verbesserung der Maschinerie der Eigentümerklasse neue Mittel zur effizienteren Ausplünderung und Beherrschung der Arbeiterinnen im Produktionsprozess. Wenn er von technischem #Fortschritt spricht, dann durchweg mit polemischer Schlagseite. So heißt es etwa mit Bezug auf die #Landwirtschaft, »jeder Fortschritt der kapitalistischen Agrikultur ist nicht nur ein Fortschritt in der Kunst, den Arbeiter, sondern zugleich in der Kunst, den Boden zu berauben, jeder Fortschritt in Steigerung seiner Fruchtbarkeit für eine gegebne Zeitfrist zugleich ein Fortschritt im Ruin der dauernden Quellen dieser Fruchtbarkeit.«
Friedrich #Engels warnte daher hellsichtig vor der Selbstbeglückwünschung der #Zivilisation angesichts einer augenscheinlich immer festeren Beherrschung der #Natur. Denn diese #Herrschaft stellt sich auf lange Sicht häufig als trügerisch heraus, wenn die nichtintendierten Folgen bestimmter technologischer Innovationen zu Tage treten, wie wir es derzeit in der #Klima|katastrophe erleben: »Schmeicheln wir uns indes nicht zu sehr mit unsern menschlichen Siegen über die Natur. Für jeden solchen Sieg rächt sie sich an uns. Jeder hat in erster Linie zwar die Folgen, auf die wir gerechnet, aber in zweiter und dritter Linie hat er ganz andre, unvorhergesehene Wirkungen, die nur zu oft jene ersten Folgen wieder aufheben.«
https://versorgerin.stwst.at/artikel/08-2022/himmlische-mullabfuhr #utopie #kapitalismus #arbeit #geoingineering #stevejobs #elonmusk
It's time to say, "No!" to Apple's use of slave labor
#politics #Apple #SlaveLabor #SteveJobs #Uyghurs #Forced-Labour #SumOfUs
*"SumOfUs members have put the world’s most valuable company on notice. Again.
At Friday’s AGM, 34% Apple investors defied the company’s instructions and voted for our shareholder proposal on forced labor. Even the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund -- Norway's, at $1.3 trillion -- voted with us.
It’s a vote tally that sends a clear message to Apple bosses that they have to take serious steps to protect the workers in its supply chain who make components for your iPhone and MacBook.
Just two years ago our proposal secured 40% investor support and a few months later Apple published its first ever human rights policy.
Now, it has to live up to its promises on forced labor.
We were everywhere Apple bosses turned during their big week. Two days before the AGM, we released a video of real Apple customers reacting to the news that Apple products are implicated in forced labor, that was seen a staggering 841 thousand times in total.
But we didn’t give Tim Cook a break. On the day of the AGM we installed a mock Uyghur forced labor camp right outside Apple’s flagship Washington DC store.
The AGM itself was via video conference, so no trip to California this year! The SumOfUs member proposal was presented at the meeting by our friend Zumretay from World Uyghur Congress.
Seven SumOfUs members came together to take action after reports of instances of forced labor surfaced.
After they filed the resolution, Apple exces tried and failed to stop investors from discussing it. But it still got support from Norway’s $1.3tn wealth fund, and backing from influential corporate governance advisors, ISS.
And with over a third of investors supporting us, Apple knows it needs to show real action to avoid a huge backlash before the next AGM rolls around.
Anthropologist Margaret Mead is often quoted as saying, never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.
You could be the next person to drive corporate change for a better world.
Thanks for all that you do,
Sondhya, Vicky and the team at SumOfUs"*
'i' things are digital manifestations of #steveJobs ... white, small, grossly over-valued, and prone to breakage early in their lifecycle
● NEWS ● #FAIR ☞ ACTION ALERT: As US Covid Deaths Reach 800,000, Atlantic Essay Asks: Who Cares? https://fair.org/home/action-alert-as-us-covid-deaths-reach-800000-atlantic-essay-asks-who-cares/ Atlantic owned by oligarchs. THEY certainly don't care... #steveJobs
L' #ÉLITISME D' #APPLE - #UnCréatif
Timecodes :
00:00 Introduction
01:07 Qui était #SteveJobs ?
04:31 Diviser par les valeurs
07:59 Diviser par la thune
10:24 Diviser par l'engagement
13:58 One more thing
15:48 Fin dramatique
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQgOPNEqKJs
#GAFAM #GAFA #marketing #pub #psychologie
● NEWS ● #TheVerge #ProprietarySoftware ☞ Apple shares memorial to #SteveJobs on 10th anniversary of his death https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/5/22710841/apple-steve-jobs-memorial-10-years necro-cult
I was at work, looked over at a co-worker's monitor, it showed a browser opened to the Apple homepage featuring a large B&W photograph of Steve Jobs.
I knew instantly.
Bit of an asshole. Don't care for much of what he made. But he did do much, and with somewhat less harm than others in the field.
Today's homepage also memorialises him, I've just noticed.
No, #steveJobs was a loser who did little of the actual work (the other Steven did, Woz), so don't insult Sinclair by comparing him to this very vicious businessman https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/17/sir_clive_sinclair_obituary/
Les Pirates de la Silicon Valley (1999) - Ploud Video France
https://video.ploud.fr/videos/watch/ee5670cc-ba01-4f03-b6f6-c5fa96c2c555
#Apple #Microsoft #IBM #BillGates #SteveJobs #Histoire #Informatique
Gates says Jobs cast 'spells' to keep Apple from dying - TechCentral
Apple’s Steve Jobs was singular in his ability to take a company “on a path to die” and turn it into the world’s most valuable — in part by “casting spells”, billionaire Bill Gates said.
“I was like a minor wizard because he would be casting spells, and I would see people mesmerised, but because I’m a minor wizard, the spells don’t work on me,” said Gates, the world’s second richest person, according to a transcript provided by the network.
#technology #computers #apple #microsoft #stevejobs #billgates #leadershop
New Banksy at Calais refugee camp.The work depicts the late Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, with a black bin bag thrown over one shoulder and an original Apple computer in his hand. The work is a pointed reference to Jobs’s background as the son of a Syrian migrant who went to America after the second world war.
In a rare statement accompanying the work, Banksy said: “We’re often led to believe migration is a drain on the country’s resources but Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian migrant. Apple is the world’s most profitable company, it pays over $7bn (£4.6bn) a year in taxes – and it only exists because they allowed in a young man from Homs.”