There are people that do things and then there are people who take things. Most of the people are in the middle who niether do or take but benefit form the people that do and try to protect themselves from the people that take. People that do things love a challenge, the more difficult the better. The people that take do not want to do the difficult but want the easy way and shortcuts where none exist.
Most people just want to get by. They do want want to be confronted with difficult challenges. It is not because they are lazy, most work hard and are decent people but they are, as a whole, risk averse.
Steve Jobs, and many like him, was a person who did things. Risk was his bread and butter. All through history it was people who were willing to take a risk and do the hard things that made a difference. It used to be part of what it meant to be American to be a risk taker. This country was formed and populated by that very sort. Who else would have made the difficult juorney to come here and leave everything that was known and comfortable behind?
Steve Jobs personified what it meant to be American. He took risks and betted that his vision was the correct one. All of us have beneffited from it even if you have never owned or used an Apple product.
R.I.P. Steve Jobs. The entire world is less now that you are gone. Sadly there are not as many in the pipeline to replace you as there once was.
