Justin Ward
1 min readMay 22, 2019

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The secret to Jobs’ billions? The thousands of nameless people who did the actual work of designing, coding and building his technology. We need to stop hero-worshipping CEOs. Every commodity in capitalism is a social product created by the labor of many, yet the wealth created accrues to a few. He made his fortune the same way every other billionaire does: exploitation. Not really a “secret.”

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Justin Ward
Justin Ward

Written by Justin Ward

Journalist and activist. Founder and co-chair of DivestSPD. Bylines at SPLC, The Baffler, GEN, USA Today. Follow on Twitter: @justwardoctrine, @DivestSPD

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