I thought I should post this video here too - Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers has made a little known protest song about the plight of the information worker, which the article put me in mind of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsDkmVo2fg4

On the other hand, if Steve had spent more time with his kids maybe they would have been worse off.

But worse off in what way? My dad took pay cuts so he wouldn't have to uproot his family and move to a different province - we never noticed that there was less money, we did notice that Dad was home more. Still, that's his priorities (and mine), and I think the OP's as well, but to each their own.

I think that zwieback was implying that Steve was kind of a dick, and that he might have just been dickish to his kids. Truth is, though, that kids love their parents and benefit from their attentions, even if they are jerks.

Good point. Of course, just because he was dickish in the business world doesn't mean that he was that way towards his kids, but he certainly might have been.

After reading his biography I thought the same thing as the author ... all of that money and success is lost if you don't have the personal relationships with your family and friends.

Ha, I never thought of it that way. Makes you wonder if Einstein was a prick dad ;)

It's pretty well known that Einstein was a horrible husband and father http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mileva_Mari http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Einstein http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Einstein