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Steve Jobs voted 'most admired'
OVER A THIRD of America's pimply-faced yoof are wanna-be black-shirted Apple fanatics, apparently, as they voted for Steve Jobs as their most admired entrepreneur.
Jobs got 35 per cent of the votes in a survey of 1,000 US teenagers, beating out TV talk-show hostess Oprah Winfrey (25 per cent) and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (10 per cent).
Also-rans reportedly included Tony Hawk, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and Kimora Lee Simmons (We have no clue as to who any of those people are, but then we're not teenagers.)
"We live in a celebrity-obsessed culture, so it's no surprise that teens admire famous entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs and Oprah Winfrey, who have built brands around their personas as well as around their products," said Jack Kosakowski, president of Junior Achievement, which conducted the survey.
Almost two thirds of the 12 to 17 year-olds indicated they chose Apple messiah Saint Steve of Jobs because he "made a difference in [or] improved people's lives or made the world a better place". One third cited his "success in multiple fields".
Junior Achievement is the yoof culture outreach and indoctrination arm of the US Chambers of Commerce crowd that teaches business and financial skills to teenagers around the world.
Obviously it doesn't teach critical thinking skills. Or maybe the little corporate vultures in training admire Jobs because he's been so successful at getting people to pay way over the odds for personal computers, music players and mobile phones, just by seeming cool and being smug. µ
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HE MUST BURN NOW!!!!
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drashek
Is a douchebag!!!
Everyone bow to the slave laborer!!
He can take all of that icrap and stick it where the apple was bitten!!
she is not Tony Blair.
he is not George Crackburied.
... No It Is (most certainly) Not.
The dickens you say man. The whole image of Jobs topping Oprah_ I shudder to think!
What is wrong with this world when it's to go to Copenhagen to deliver and there's No App for that?
Whinging wankers, there's an elephant in the room! and there's no Rush to the Limbaugh? pissers!
... some sort of reverse luv??? corporate-ophilia? Apple-ophilia? I like Mac-ophilia.
As the O-BAM-uh cronies postulate: indoctrinate them when they're young and you have them for life.
It amazes me how people love to fall in line with various cults of personalities. Are we doomed?
Hmmmm, Jobs is famous for his respect of people with handicaps. Loves to pay them tribute by parking in their lots.
Oprah, wonder how she is without those nice people whispering in her ear. (fun to watch those silent moments she spends thinking (ED. listening) before saying something)
I'd love to hear what Orwell would have to say about the (seemingly) brainwashed people who are around these days...
It's sad to see that the youngsters admire someone that not only is a recycler of ideas* but also (and mainly) wants total control over something YOU OWN!
* yep, he did innovate... but mp3 players and smartphones were not his ideas, they had been around for a while when he launched his products; and OSX is just a Free-BSD with lots of flair. Apple II or Lisa would be a different story, but I doubt teens know about 'em!