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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

My brother once made an interesting point about why Steve Jobs chose fake medicine. What he said was, from memory, "Every other time in his life that people told him what he was doing was a bad idea that would end in disaster he ended up making a few billion dollars."