Really interesting article on Steve Jobs’ liver transplant and subsequent push to pass a law in California that will require the DMV to ask you if you’d like to become an organ donor (which may double the number of transplant organs available there):
But something about his whole experience still bothered Steve.
What bothered him was that while he, a very wealthy man, was surviving his liver’s failure, others were not so lucky. Specifically, he was upset because, while he was able to afford the costs of multiple-listing and a private jet that could ferry him to any hospital in the country at a moment’s notice, others in California could not; they had to stay in California and hope. He knew that 400 people died hoping.
And so, in a departure from a largely apolitical career, Steve decided to do something about it.
