Intel founder Andy Grove passes at age 79

Here is the story from the San Jose Mercury News, the newspaper of record for Silicon Valley. And here is the story from Wired magazine's website.

Rather than replicate their biography of Grove, I would rather point readers to an article Grove wrote in July 2010,  How America Can Create Jobs, in which he ripped into outsourcing and free trade, and asked a fundamental question: "what kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work—and masses of unemployed?" (below)

It should also be noted that Grove was an immigrant from Hungary. Both the fact that Grove was an immigrant, and that he repudiated free trade, should be rubbed in the faces of Republicans, conservatives, and neo-liberals until they squeal.

A highly entertaining read, which ably contrasts the producer class ethos in conflict with predator class pecuniary culture, set in the context of the birth of the semiconductor industry, is The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce: How the Sun Rose on the Silicon Valley, by Tom Wolfe, in Esquire, December 1983.
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