[quote=svelte][quote=bearishgurl]
We can’t judge Jobs or any “natural father” of that era who was likely legally between a “rock and a hard space” or kept completely ignorant of the birth of his child by the mother.[/quote]
I can certainly judge Mr. Jobs and so can you.
This man claimed to be sterile!!! Not only that, he has now fathered a total of 4 children!
I find it ludicrous, bg, for you to defend a man who waited until a court ordered test to find out whether he was a father. Absolutely ludicrous. It’s an insult to all the upstanding fathers in this world.[/quote]
svelte, no one is condoning “deadbeat dad” behavior around here. You still haven’t answered those all-important questions that could shed light on the difference between your situation in that era vs. Jobs’ situation. Have you read Jobs’ court papers … his response to Paternity and Child Support? Do you actually know how it all went down?
How many prominent “politicians, celebrities and millionaires/billionaires” have we heard of in our lifetimes who had “biological children” come out of the woodwork only AFTER they became famous and/or very successful??
If you were Jobs and slapped with a paternity suit 14-16 years after your alleged child’s birth, how would you respond to it??
[quote=svelte]I submit to you it was like an earlier poster claimed, Steve did not want to share his money.
This trait continued to come out in him until his death.
Mr. Jobs was worth $6.5 billion dollars. That’s billion with a B! Or as you’re so found of doing $6.5 BILLION.
Yet when Mr. Gates approached him about donating some of it to charity, Steve Jobs said no.[/quote]
…Bono, U2’s lead singer and a noted activist, quickly responded to the Times piece, writing that “Apple’s contribution to our fight against AIDS in Africa has been invaluable.”
The company had given “tens of millions of dollars that have transformed the lives of more than two million Africans through H.I.V. testing, treatment and counseling. This is serious and significant. And Apple’s involvement has encouraged other companies to step up,” Bono wrote. “Just because he’s been extremely busy, that doesn’t mean that he and his wife, Laurene, have not been thinking about these things.”
Jobs’s supporters say it also may be impossible to know from public records what he gave away because he could have requested anonymity. Indeed, his plans for the rest of his wealth may not be known until well after his death.
The fact that he doesn’t appear on lists of public giving “doesn’t necessarily mean that he’s not giving generously,” said Adriene Davis of Indiana University’s Center on Philanthropy, which tracks such gifts.
What may partly explain Jobs’s absence from the donor rolls is that he was so busy with his company.
Jobs’s most direct effort at philanthropy was when he set up the Steven P. Jobs Foundation, shortly after he was forced out of Apple in 1985. To run that effort, he hired Mark Vermilion, who first spent time at Humanitas International, a charity founded by Joan Baez, and then headed Apple’s community efforts, which began when Vermilion proposed the company give away computers to nonprofits.
Jobs wanted his foundation to focus on nutrition and vegetarianism. Vermilion favored programs that promoted social entrepreneurship. But then Jobs got tied up building another company called NeXT and the foundation shut down.
“I said, ‘You really need to spend some time on this’ and he said ‘I can’t right now,’ ” Vermilion said. “I really don’t blame Steve. I think I could have done a better job on selling him on my idea or I should have done his idea.”
Had Jobs, who died at 56, lived longer, he might have gotten around to more public charities, Vermilion said, but because he was a perfectionist, he would have needed to devote a lot of his scarce time to it.
“He’s gotten a lot of criticism for not giving away tons of money,” Vermilion said. “But I think it’s a bum rap. There’s only so many hours in a week, and he created so many incredible products. He really contributed to culture and society.”
