The Pros And Cons Of Steve Jobs

There is no doubt that major industrialists acquire wealth through the investments of major companies. However, it is not so much of why they are considered wealthy but more so of how they became wealthy. Major industrialists can be considered a Captain of Industry or a Robber Baron. A Captain of Industry is considered a business leader whose means of acquiring wealth, positively contributed to the country like providing more jobs or increasing productivity. A Robber Baron is considered an industrialist who acquires wealth by unethical means, such as: questionable stock-markets and exploitation of labor. Therefore, Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc., can be considered a Robber Baron because of his purposeful actions to cause resentment among employees …show more content…
Jobs has been known to be blunt and hot-tempered towards his employees. As stated before, he purposely tried to turn his co-workers against the CEO in order for himself to gain power in the company. Sources say that he was a controlling perfectionist, he had the final say on every invention and if he did not accept it then the whole design team had to start from scratch. Similar to J. P. Morgan, Steve Jobs treated his employees unfairly by allowing his previous team at the company NeXt, to gain top positions in Apple Inc. Not to mention Steve Jobs purposely made a monopoly within the Apple store, Itunes. For instance, Itunes prohibits third party developers and publishers from including a link to their own website. This prevents Apple product users from buying other things from that third party developer, which ultimately causes them to lose money. Itunes also prohibits digital magazines from offering subscriptions unless they offer it at the same price or less in the Apple store. This also prevents publishers from gaining