Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
by phaus on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @11:58PM
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I was assuming that Woz actually had over a billion dollars in the literal sense. I was clearly mistaken and I did appreciate the correction.
Not sure why a simple correction turned out to be controversial. I was wrong and you corrected me. I'm not offended so no one else should be either.
Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
by markdennehy on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @08:55AM
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Because if you want to argue over the meaning of the word billionaire, you start with why we shouldn't have changed the meaning of the word billion :)
When you're talking about personal wealth, there's a real danger of money going from a tool to do stuff; to being a way to keep score. And that latter road leads to the worst kind of arsehole-ry (damn, that needs a better word).
I don't get why you wrote what you did as a response to mine; I just made a factual correction. (I even stated that the point still stands.)
Edit:
This was not an argument over the meaning of the word 'billionaire'; the post I replied to likely assumed that Wozniak was a billionaire (defined in the way that over 99% of Americans would understand it) and I mentioned that it doesn't seem that is the case.
If you're arguing about the alternative definitions of 'billionaire', it could have been an interesting sidenote, but ultimately the definition that I am using is what most Americans (i.e. the country Woz lives in) would assume and to use another definition in this context is poor communication.
The whole point of the post I responded to was just saying that if Woz wasn't working with Jobs, he might not have been as rich as he is now; no judgment was made on what it means to be "rich enough", etc.