Steve Wozniak: 'US would look like Dubai if it didn't spend all its money on military', Snowden=Hero

[dreamnightwind]

35. All of the anti-Dubai posts here are kind of missing the more important point

which is, that we, the U.S. taxpayer, have been duped or strong armed into paying for global militarism, to a degree that no other people on earth are required to pay. It isn't because we the people demand the military we have, quite the opposite, but the MIC has us by the balls and even our Democratic candidates, with very few exceptons, can't wait to spend more of our tax money on military adventurism we neither ask for nor need. The amount of money taken from Americans for this purpose is truly staggering.

I agree that the example of Dubai is a poor one, not anything we want to emulate.

Also I've seen a few refs to Wozniak like he is some kind of mega corporate mogul. I don't know his net worth, probably plenty, but the mogul was Jobs. Woz was the geek, not particularly world-wise and he had no taste for building a corporate empire. While Jobs was building the marketing and consumer electronics phenomenom that is Apple, Woz went back to college, not to teach but to study, not business but tech.

I lived in a small geodesic dome back off the street in a very ordinary neighborhood in Santa Cruz for a few years. Cute, but tiny. At that residence, I got a lot of mail addressed to Wozniak, the landlord said he used to live there. Extremely humble one-room + kitchen and loft little dome. That was the mid 80's, he may own a high-rise in Dubai for all I know, but his roots are simple and purely technical.