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Re:“I Have a Secret. My Father Is Steve Jobs” by dayofthedaleks on Thursday August 02, 2018 @08:34AM (#17670947)
“You’re not getting anything,” he said. “You understand? Nothing. You’re getting nothing.”

Empty man consumed by his own emptiness, leaves shiny baubles behind.

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Re:“I Have a Secret. My Father Is Steve Jobs” by imesh on Thursday August 02, 2018 @09:07AM (#17671094)
I'm not saying he wasn't an awful father, but he actually did leave her a multi-million dollar inheritance according to Wikipedia
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Re:“I Have a Secret. My Father Is Steve Jobs” by rhapsodic on Thursday August 02, 2018 @09:29AM (#17671219)
>I'm not saying he wasn't an awful father, but he actually did leave her a multi-million dollar inheritance according to Wikipedia

He was not only an awful father, he was an awful person.

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Re:“I Have a Secret. My Father Is Steve Jobs” by 3pt14159 on Thursday August 02, 2018 @09:55AM (#17671371)
It's not so black and white.

He was erratic. Some things Jobs did were wonderful. In this situation I could see him detesting the way his relationships were poisoned with money and not wanting his daughter to rest on her laurels waiting for a payday.

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Re:“I Have a Secret. My Father Is Steve Jobs” by paleotrope on Thursday August 02, 2018 @01:25PM (#17673417)
Maybe he could have elaborated on that to his own daughter. Instead of requiring her to infer that this was the meaning.
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Re:“I Have a Secret. My Father Is Steve Jobs” by WalterSear on Thursday August 02, 2018 @11:03AM (#17671981)
A search for 'nice things Steve Jobs did' is damning: watch how hard journalists struggle to find some small anecdotes of kindness to say about him. 'He came out and helped us fix my car in the driveway.' 'He gave his team inspiring speeches.' 'He protected the resources he needed from interdepartmental criticism.'

It's clear that he was a dickhead to anyone he could get away with it to, while expressing the infrequent, but still present, in group-support, and the hyperbolic in-group praise, typical of a narcissist.

He even died due to his own hubris.

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Re:“I Have a Secret. My Father Is Steve Jobs” by rhapsodic on Thursday August 02, 2018 @10:21AM (#17671570)
> In this situation I could see him detesting the way his relationships were poisoned with money and not wanting his daughter to rest on her laurels waiting for a payday.

That's your takeaway from this?

  > “You’re not getting anything,” he said. “You understand?
  > Nothing. You’re getting nothing.” Did he mean about the
  > car, something else, bigger? I didn’t know. His voice
  > hurt—sharp, in my chest.
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