Agreed, but the definition of extremist seems to be moving; seems you cannot voice opinions anymore and it seems especially a US thing. Bill gates and Steve Jobs would be marked as extremists in the way they led the business now. Not political but angry and aggressive to the max. I think we need 'extremists' to not have a flat society where nothing happens.
I think you weren't paying attention? Both were always known as extremists.
Steve Jobs was a raging asshole, until it caught up with him. Turns out you can't bully cancer into submission.
Gates was involved in some seriously shady stuff and under his rule, Microsoft ruined a whole lot of companies, some of which thought they had a profitable agreement. And not by some sort of honest competition, but some very underhanded tactics.
Gates seems to have a much better reputation as of late, but he used to have a Borg style icon on slashdot for a reason. Lots of people didn't like him at all back when he was running the show.
>Steve Jobs was a raging asshole, until it caught up with him. Turns out you can't bully cancer into submission
You really think that though both Bill and Steve were assholes at the beginning of their careers, but the fact that Bill gentrified himself is why he hasn't died of cancer and Steve did?
From what I've read, Steve Jobs was just too full of himself. He had a curable form of pancreatic cancer, and access to any health care conceivable. Instead of that he went with a fruit diet, acupuncture and a psychic. Apparently his diet was so nuts that when Ashton Kutcher tried replicating it, he ended up in the hospital.
Gates while an asshole in the business sense, from accounts that I've heard is a genuinely extremely intelligent person and has great technical understanding. While medicine is not his field from what I heard he seems to take well considered positions in that regard, and I think it's doubtful he'd sabotage his own chances of recovery in such a way.
Jobs was extremely intelligent as well (I'm not sure how you could be disingenuously extremely intelligent, btw :P ), but his decision to cure his cancer with this route was always mysterious.
You're voicing an opinion right now. Unfortunately there's a common misconception that everyone is entitled to voice their opinion without criticism. If you go around all day saying stuff that people think is hurtful or obnoxious, the freedom that allows you to do so is the same freedom those people have to tell you to get lost.
