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> Job’s fictional carpenter would get outcompeted by the hypothetical free market where carpenters of equal skill are producing more at lower cost.

Maybe someone should have explained to Jobs how to compete in the marketplace. Another approach is to try to understand why Jobs said those things given the obvious economic costs that you mention, and how it led to the most valuable company in the history of the world.

>>wolver+(OP)
Jobs was fired after making this quote, because his approach nearly ruined the company. The modern Apple has learned the lesson that you don't need to actually create quality products, you just need to fool people into thinking your products are quality (and it sure helps if all your competitors are even worse).

>>kibwen+U3
My point was, instead of dimissing people whose ideas conflict with ours, we can expand our ideas by understanding them. Also, if you reduce it to a choice between listening to Jobs or you ...