Despite all of the fond memories, condolences, and blatant attempts at being relevant amongst their peers that flooded the internet and various other lesser media in the weeks since Steve Jobs died, most of it is completely unfounded. He made his career by stealing ideas from Intel, IBM, Xerox, and that was just in the 1970s. When he came back to Apple to reinvigorate their stagnant sales in the late 1990s, Jobs pilfered ideas from more companies than you’ve got time to read about. He was about as much of a visionary as he was a guy who relied on slick marketing and charismatic rhetoric to turn an underdog company into the greediest corporation in the world strictly by using underhanded means, revolting business practices, and just general cash hording techniques. These aren’t the actions of a visionary; these are the actions of a sociopath.

Despite what people think they remember about Steve Jobs, he wasn’t a nice man. Frequent absurd outbursts at his employees for messing up one line of code were common at Apple. For those who don’t know, one program is composed of millions and sometimes billions of lines of code and any mistakes are found through product testing and fixed post launch by patches and updates. And even when this was common knowledge, other employees company-wide regarded him with deity status. He regularly divided his employees into teams and pitted them against each other in contests, just shy of those seen in the Ancient Roman Colosseum. People will claim that this was just in the spirit of competition, but actually, it was a technique that was employed to great effect by dictators across the world for centuries. Hyperbolic comparisons of anything to Hitler abound on the internet and are definitely the work of reactionaries that can’t think in terms of degrees (as in, there’s bad people who are lesser in their badness than Hitler) but Steve Jobs’ tactic of pitting different groups against each other is exactly what Hitler did (and many other dictators have done throughout time). That’s not to say, “Jobs = Hitler” but rather to put him on the same level as people who go to great lengths to get the results they desire, even if those lengths are morally bankrupt. Also he ran sweatshops in China and disavowed his relationship to his daughter for years in spite of positive evidence of the contrary. These aren’t the actions of a visionary; these are the actions of a sociopath.

Despite the fact that the world made Steve Jobs one of the richest men in the world who, at the time of his retirement, was the head of the richest company in the world, not once did he donate money to charity. I’m not saying that everyone should donate to charity, but I am saying that people with absurd amounts of money who take pleasure in charging people a buck for a song they didn’t even write should feel some empathy for their common man. People think he might have donated once, but if that’s true, that’s actually worse than donating never. A rich person who never donates money is merely a greedy miser, a literal Ebenezer Scrooge McDuck. A person who donates to charity once is a person who did it once and actually received no joy from their actions to the point where it was a turn off. Much like a person might try anal once and never again because it’s a turn off, Steve Jobs allegedly donated once and after deriving no pleasure, never did it again. These aren’t the actions of a visionary; these are the actions of a sociopath.

Despite all of his pretense of having a casual way of dressing, Steve Jobs was a man obsessed with image. What kind of person wears the same outfit for 30 years? A cartoon character, that’s what kind. He was a man that cared so much what people thought about him that he went to absurd lengths to make sure he looked the same for decades. Wearing a costume of a black turtleneck, jeans, and white sneakers in all public appearances is kind of thing that a crazy person would do. These aren’t the actions of a visionary; they’re the actions of a sociopath.

Despite the number of Apple products you own, Steve Jobs didn’t know you or care about you. He only cared about you in terms of your buying power. He offered discounts on his products to elementary schools and to college students not to be generous, but rather to hook you on the products that he offered. Get ‘em while they’re young. Just like a drug dealer offering you a few freebies before charging you an inflated price, Steve Jobs attempted to addict people to his products that they would buy later in life when they had more ability to buy them. He was trying to create a one operating system future where everyone would be on his very closed platform. These products would be less effective, more restrictive, and more censored than their open source PC (and even Windows PC) counterparts while costing more money. These concepts flew directly in the face of his anti-establishment rhetoric that he spouted just as he attempted to establish the very Orwellian future that he derided both in conversation and in advertisements. By claiming freedom for users while trapping them further in byzantine systems through methods utilized by drug dealers, Steve Jobs cemented his place as a ruthless businessman with a complete disregard for humanity. These aren’t the actions of a visionary; they’re the actions of a sociopath.

Despite his legacy, his entire life is perhaps best summed up in a 22 minute episode of the animated show Futurama. That 80′s Guy spent so much time trying to be a visionary, that he forgot to cure his own fatal bone-itis. In Jobs’ case, it was pancreatic-itis, but the concept is the same: make the most powerful company in the world by doing nothing but knowing how to charge people money for what they would have gotten for free. Apple OS1 was originally going to be free, just like what it was mostly stolen from anyway, Linux. Jobs didn’t even write any of it. He simply convinced the creator to charge money for it. Then he died with all of his worldly goods having simply not worked at keeping himself alive despite the fact that when he first heard about his disease, it was entirely treatable. He chose to seek the “aid” of far east shamans instead of any number of world renowned doctors that could have solved his problem simply before it spread to the rest of his body. In death, Steve Jobs has shown us that his life wasn’t worth a penny. He chose to commit slow, painful suicide simply because he refused to let himself be satisfied with all of the money in the world. These aren’t the actions of a visionary; they’re the actions of a sociopath.