Occupy Steve Jobs
Posted: October 6th, 2011 | Author: miconian | Filed under: Geeking It Old School | Tags: apple, bp, occupy wall street, steve jobs | 2 Comments »Last night, while walking through Zucotti Park, the center of the mico-city that is emerging within the Occupy Wall Street protest, I overheard part of a conversation about Steve Jobs. I thought that maybe he, like Radiohead, had been rumored to make an appearance. Only after I got home and online did I realize that he was dead.
My Twitter feed was full of tweets on both subjects. I follow a lot of tech enthusiasts, and also a lot of people interested in social justice, so the confluence didn’t surprise me. Many other tweeters noticed the combination, and some began to snarkily point it out, as if to expose a hypocrisy. How could anyone who is genuinely concerned about the ubiquity of corporate influence and the accumulation of wealth among an elite few, truly mourn the passing of a man who was a part of that elite, and ran a major publicly traded corporation?
