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Re:Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment,... by ModernMech on Thursday August 14, 2025 @03:08PM (#44904362)
When I was a student, we tried to get him to speak to at our school, but Woz wanted mucho $$$$ to speak. But it seems plenty people will pay what he asks. I guess if my job were to just go around talking about random shit I'm interested in, and I can make $10M doing that, I'd be the happiest person ever too. I don't think it's about naivete.

Edit to clarify: I'm not saying he doesn't deserve to get paid, I'm saying his being "the happiest person ever" is directly correlated to his ability to collect millions just shooting the shit in front of a fawning audience.

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Re:Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment,... by namrog84 on Thursday August 14, 2025 @03:16PM (#44904440)
it's a bit of work and effort to give a talk. And he is rich enough to not need to do it for the money. Time is important. If he'd be doing it for free he'd probably get too many requests. Adding a high $ can simply help filter down to a reasonable thing.to only the largest locations and highest number of people.

I dont want to do contract work but people ask so I just quote an unreasonably high number and on occasion someone bites. I dont need the money so I need an easy filter.

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Re:Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment,... by vjk800 on Thursday August 14, 2025 @03:19PM (#44904472)
A person whose every interest and opinion gets validated by the world would indeed be very happy. Imagine just talking about whatever the hell happens to interest you to people and everyone paying attention and even paying you good money for that.

It's a bit related to how billionaires tell everyone to "just work on whatever makes you happy and it's all going to be fine".

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Re:Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment,... by prmph on Thursday August 14, 2025 @03:33PM (#44904626)
Nah, plenty of millionaires and even billionaires who have a license to print money are unhappy.
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Re:Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment,... by Loughla on Thursday August 14, 2025 @05:36PM (#44905983)
Are they though? I know that's a trope (poor little rich kid). But is that real life?
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Re:Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment,... by RHSman2 on Thursday August 14, 2025 @07:30PM (#44906948)
Yes. Money does make you happy (really, the pursuit of the money does not as it is not what we are evolved to be happy about)
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