‘Catch Me If You Can’ conman Frank Abagnale Jr. lied about his lifetime of lies

Re:‘Catch Me If You Can’ conman Frank Abagnale Jr. lied abou... by graeme on Sunday March 19, 2023 @05:31PM (#35223877)

>Steve Jobs never really invented anything but he knew how to play the role.

You're of course getting engagement here. But the key difference is this: Abgnale outputted nothing.

Steve Jobs outputted Apple, Pixar and Next (basis of Macos and iOS).

You can quibble over what share of what credit for the specific products of each of those three companies. But there's no disputing Next wouldn't have existed without him, nor Apple, and Apple would have failed without him. Pixar had been declined by 45 other investors; only Jobs said yes. So it likely would not have got off the ground without him.

Everyone involved in the output of those companies speaks highly of him and ascribe him a vital role. Key competitors do the same.

Your argument amounts to say:

1. He had a well known reality distortion field

2. Therefore he accomplished nothing and everyone who was there on the ground is wrong, for they were subject to this field

3. All of the output of those companies happened, no thanks to Jobs.

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Re:‘Catch Me If You Can’ conman Frank Abagnale Jr. lied abou... by rowanG077 on Sunday March 19, 2023 @06:30PM (#35224380)

Huh? What about his autobiography. Or the movie? I find the Argument that he never "outputted" anything extremely unconvincing.

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Re:‘Catch Me If You Can’ conman Frank Abagnale Jr. lied abou... by hillcrestenigma on Sunday March 19, 2023 @06:47PM (#35224515)

I agree. Abagnale never outputted anything for the public, but he has outputted tremendous good for himself at the expense of others. Him and Jobs both achieved feats that no average man could have achieved.

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Re:‘Catch Me If You Can’ conman Frank Abagnale Jr. lied abou... by astrange on Sunday March 19, 2023 @06:53PM (#35224576)

He didn't write an autobiography. His biography had some glaring errors (people like Bill Gates are directly quoted as saying things with basic tech mistakes they couldn't have said) and of course he died before it was finished, so he couldn't have reviewed it.

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Re:‘Catch Me If You Can’ conman Frank Abagnale Jr. lied abou... by wyldfire on Sunday March 19, 2023 @07:13PM (#35224794)

Your reply seems to mistake the subject "he" for Jobs but in fact Abagnale is the subject there. G-GP suggests that (unlike Jobs) Abagnale output nothing and GP refutes that claim suggesting that Abagnale's autobiography and film are works that we can credit to him.

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Re:‘Catch Me If You Can’ conman Frank Abagnale Jr. lied abou... by tough on Sunday March 19, 2023 @11:16PM (#35226835)

Thanks I wasnt getting it either

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Re:‘Catch Me If You Can’ conman Frank Abagnale Jr. lied abou... by ekianjo on Sunday March 19, 2023 @07:23PM (#35224889)

since when is a movie supposed to be accurate?

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Re:‘Catch Me If You Can’ conman Frank Abagnale Jr. lied abou... by rowanG077 on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @06:56AM (#35259273)

I don't see how that is relevant. Whether it's accurate or not doesn't matter for it be something of value.

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Re:‘Catch Me If You Can’ conman Frank Abagnale Jr. lied abou... by graeme on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @07:52PM (#35254560)

Abgnale outputted a story. I’ll grant that.

Point of my comment is people also accuse Jobs of outputting only a story. But it’s ludicrous to believe all the rest of the stuff is just coincidence that happens to surround Jobs, again and again and again.

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