Reply #180: I'm way late to this thread, but think of it this way:

[yodermon]

If our wettest of wet-dream financial, fiscal, political, and economic policies had been in effect for the past 30 years, and the top marginal tax rate was at 91%, and CEO pay was within non-WTF limits, and Glass-Steagall was still in effect, and our political system wasn't bought and paid-for, etc etc etc.....

....then Steve Jobs *still* would have invented all this cool shit and would still be honored for it, and would *still* deserve the recognition. He may only have been worth 3.5 billion instead of 7 billion, but wtf difference does that make.

He isn't being praised for "being a capitalist". He's being praised for being an innovator, inventor, visionary, and game-changer.
That is all.