This is a great point. Most of us can identify more with Ballmer than Jobs. Jobs is often portrayed as someone with almost deity like kind of prestige. That’s just a myth. Ballmer is real.
You know what, it is closer to us than you think. The anti-poaching agreements show that even those of us making a hundred dollars an hour or more actually have our wages suppressed because of the illegal actions of our corporate overlords.
Does the fact that we’re underpaid mean that we deserve more help than the kid dying…
