TIME: 100 Most Influencial

What kind of jack are these people bringing in?

JDW

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Interesting that the media would choose to focus on Steven Jobs.

Steven Jobs is worth every single cent of his non-"salary".  He created and dominated a market, not once, but twice.  First with the Apple Computer, then with the I-Pod when Apples lost their market share. (I was at a meeting yesterday, when a young colleague pulled out the newest I-Pod to show me pictures of his new baby. I was shocked, it was so tiny and extremely elegant). 

The fact that Jobs created a market, and drove a company to dominance once, is in itself pretty impressive.  But the life cycle of most dominanting-the-industry companies  is to lose the initiative once they become the industry leader, lose market share, fade away or get bought out.  Yet Jobs is talented enough to drive his organization into a second spectacular period of growth and market dominance, while diversifying his product line.

Do these media twits think someone with this kind of brain power and intuitive sense of the public's consumer desires is born every day?  Personally, I suspect Jobs may be underpaid.  

Typical media tripe.  They sound like a bunch of whiny teenagers...."it's so not faaaaiiiiir".

It's some kind of guilt thing with the Left. Guilt about individuals being financially successful, and/or pointing out those that are financial successful as a bad example. The Left is all about fitting in, getting along, and being equal. The Left is all about Conformity; being of "one mind". Frightening stuff, really.

The Left attempts to apply heavy stigmatic social pressure to the wealthy in their use of the MSM, publicly and loudly lambasting the successful for having the initiative and the business acumen that helped them achieve their success(es). The Left wants society to see the successful in a negative light, implying the successful are Scrooges that hoard their money for their personal pleasure, intimating, through good ol’ Communist thought, that the rich don't “share" their wealth. Many times, these insanely wealthy people are passionate in their numerous contributions to charitable causes and foundations, even the welfare of the less fortunate in third world countries receive attention from the vastly wealthy.

Why did the staff of "Forbes" deliberately zero in on the successful and their salaries? This story was dreamed up for what purpose? To make what point? The GMA folks say the wealthy need to "earn" their money.

What makes them believe the wealthy haven't earned their money? Isn't having the intelligence and foresight to create, staff, run, and maintain a successful business earning your money? Running the show is the big perk of being successful. Calling the shots. Everyone wants to be the boss. It's the goal of millions of small business owners. Gotta start somewhere.

Having independent thought, successful business practices, and making money are bad, bad things to the Left. The Left responds to the individual successes of others by behaving in ways that reveal their inner thought process, "You're not conforming to the rest of society. You're making a name for yourself. You're flaunting your wealth and success. You think you're better than we are. We feel guilty that we don't have the same initiative. You've achieved a level of success we never will because we don't have the same kind of drive and are incapable of independent thought. You should feel guilty about that. You rose above your (most likely) liberal education. Because we have judged you and believe you have so much, so much more than you could ever need, you should share it with those of us that don't. Just because. Everyone needs to know how rich you are so they can be envious, jealous, and suspicious of how you became wealthy. We want people not to trust you because of how wealthy you are. And we'll make something up and accuse you of wrong-doing because, if you don't kowtow to our pressure, we will destroy you... personally."

Achieving personal success and happiness in the fulfillment of your version of the American dream, whatever that may be, is part of the reasoned fabric woven in the creation of our Country. Hard work equals success. Your word is your bond. Accept responsibility for your actions. Live by the Golden Rule. Also, the emulation of the successful as role models, in all walks of life.

The Left says that's not good enough.

Interesting, though, the Left are completely blind, deaf, and dumb when it comes to holding their owner, George Soros, accountable for similarly "not earning" his billions in personal annual income as they speed away in their SUVs (usually in an alcohol- or drug-induced stupor), fly off in their private jets, chit-chat at lavishly catered cocktail parties, or walk through one of their well-lit mansions nibbling on their blasé-sophisticated, grown-up infantile, exclusively imported, bourgeois brie.

For those that have achieved that level of success and wealth - more power to you and congratulations on many jobs well done over the years.