HUBRIS! by Greg Cravens

HUBRIS!

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  1. Agent54

    Agent54 said, 6 months ago

    Kind of people who think their time is money on all conditions and will race you to the finish line of death and claim victory when they die with the most money. A unique way of keeping books in my mind.

  2. Peabody-Martini

    Peabody-Martini said, 6 months ago

    It’s worth more to have the kid be someone else’s problem.

  3. PoodleGroomer

    PoodleGroomer said, 6 months ago

    Setting a broken leg with a titanium pin costs $40,000.

  4. Allan

    Allan said, 6 months ago

    @Agent54

    Steve Jobs did that.
    After he returned to Apple in 1997, he disbanded ALL charitable donation programs that had been created. He cared about himself, his money, and that was it.
    Bill Gates, on the other hand, would be twice as rich today, if he hadn’t been giving away 28 BILLION dollars over 20 years.

  5. Allan

    Allan said, 6 months ago

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/record-thin-on-steve-jobss-philanthropy/2011/10/06/gIQA3YKKRL_story.html
    This is a year old article, but not surprising is the content:
    Unlike fellow tech leaders Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, he did not sign the Giving Pledge, the effort under which the nation’s richest individuals commit to giving at least half their wealth to philanthropy.

    His name is absent from the list of gifts of $1 million or more maintained by Indiana University’s Center on Philanthropy.

    The … debate began after the New York Times published an unflattering piece in August 2011, stating “there is no public record of Mr. Jobs giving money to charity. … Nor is there a hospital wing or an academic building with his name on it.”

    Moreover, Jobs had closed Apple’s philanthropic programs when he returned to the company in 1997 and never reinstated them despite $14 billion in profit last year, the Times reported.

  6. scsurfer

    scsurfer said, 6 months ago

    Yuppies! Gotta love ‘em. . .um, wait, No, no I don’t. Do I. Frickin’ yuppies.

  7. pcolli

    pcolli said, 6 months ago

    Here’s the cheque, it’s no longer my responsibility; bye.
    .
    Talk about absentee mothers.

  8. Night-Gaunt49

    Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago

    Steve Jobs isn’t a person to emulate.

  9. Neo Blakkrstal

    Neo Blakkrstal said, 6 months ago

    @Agent54

    He who dies with the most toys, wins

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