Steve Jobs, the visionary founder of Apple, died Wednesday at the age of 56 after years-long battle with pancreatic cancer.
This video is not specifically about Steve's life and a tribute to his accomplishments.
Within this video I intend to raise awareness of the cancer that we all exist as in some way or another to ourselves, each other and the earth -- and within it call for a change in how we behave and a change in the economic system that is sucking dry each one of us and the earths resources in the name of competition and greed and profit.
Please investigate the solution:
http://www.equalmoney.org
http://www.desteni.co.za
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Associated Press
Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds up an Apple iPhone at the MacWorld Conference in San Francisco, in this Jan. 9, 2007 file photo.
"Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives," Apple said in a statement. "The world is immeasurably better because of Steve."
During his more than three decade-long career, Mr. Jobs transformed Silicon Valley as he helped turn the once sleepy expanse of fruit orchards into the technology industry's innovation center. In addition to laying the groundwork for the modern high-tech industry alongside other pioneers like Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison, Mr. Jobs proved the appeal of well-designed intuitive products over the sheer power of technology itself and shifted the way consumers interact with technology in an increasingly digital world.
Unlike those men, however, the most productive chapter in Mr. Jobs' career occurred near the end of his life, when a nearly unbroken string of innovative and wildly successful products like the iPod, iPhone and iPad fundamentally changed the PC, electronics and digital media industries. The way he marketed and sold those products through savvy advertising campaigns and its retail stores, in the meanwhile, helped turn the company into a pop culture icon.
At the beginning of that phase, Mr. Jobs once described his philosophy as trying to make products that were at "the intersection of art and technology." In doing so, he turned Apple into the world's most valuable company.
Mr. Jobs was 56 years old. After exhibiting significant weight loss in mid-2008, he took a nearly six month medical leave of absence in 2009, during which he received a liver transplant. He took another medical leave of absence in mid-January without explanation before stepping down as chief executive in August.
Mr. Jobs is survived by his wife, Laurene, and four children.
Although his achievements in technology alone were immense, Mr. Jobs played an equally groundbreaking role in entertainment. He turned Apple into the largest retailer of music and helped popularize computer-animated films as the financier and CEO of Pixar Animation Studios, which he later sold to Walt Disney Co. He was a key figure in changing the way people used the Internet and how they consumed music, TV shows, movies, books, disrupting industries in the process.
Hi, Joao! I like your Video and your message. I also went to the link you showed and I ask: what for an equal money system if we can actually get rid completely of money? watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w ;)
jrvillela 5 months ago
@jrvillela
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Hi - thanks for watching and for commenting.
I am aware of the ZGM and the Venus project.
Yes, I do see your point and eventually that is exactly where the Equal Money System will lead: a world where money is not necessary.
But, considering our situation, it is impossible to go from crawling (money) to running (no money) - thus first we have to walk as equals (equal money) if we are to run together in mutual respect and appreciation for each other and the planet/nature.
JoaoJesusHere 5 months ago
@jrvillela
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Note that money itself is not the problem -- the problem is our agreement in relation to money.
Money itself is nothing but a tool/means of exchange --- it is a language. Yet this language has been agreeded by all of us that will not be available to everyone to guarantee our basic physical needs.
Thus, if we change the language as our understanding/agreement on it based on the principle of equality we will be able to make sure everyone is equally provided with the basic.
JoaoJesusHere 5 months ago
@jrvillela
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The Equal Money System is an Equal Monitoring System that "monitors" the resources on the planet and equally distributes what we as humans require - and considering that we all want the best, that is what we will give each other: We will equally give each other the best because that is what we would like to receive
You can see it as a system of compassion wherein we passionately pass on to each other the best of ourselves and the best nature has to offer
Shall we "run"?
JoaoJesusHere 5 months ago
I can't take this seriously...You can say whatever you want but without sources you're just talking out of your ass. Have some respect for the dead man...
snip3r2 5 months ago
@snip3r2
A dead man cannot possibly be disrespected --- only a those that are living may be disrespect with, for example, lack of money to get food, housing, medical treatments and education... that is true disrespect! Thus, by definition, the current economic system is a disrespect to Life because we Equally and respectively have the same physical needs.
This video makes no attempt to disrespect no one.
In relation to your "question", do you want sources for what specifically?
JoaoJesusHere 5 months ago 3