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There's a band called Stoney Spring which has a somewhat caustic 2013 song "Jobs" which touches on this. Excerpts:

  I don't blame Steve Jobs
  For what he's done to our bodies and our brains
  I blame you and me for making Steve Jobs feel like what he done was right
  
  ...
  
  And I don't blame Steve Jobs
  For turning rock-and-roll into a store at the mall
  I blame you and me for accepting the seduction
  Of being normal
  
  I don't blame Steve Jobs
  For driving a spike through the heart of the public space
  I blame you and me
  For retreating into fantasy, fingering our half-formed thoughts
  In our sleek sexy crumbling civilization
  
  ...
  
  I don't blame Steve Jobs
  For making us timid and effete
  I blame you and me
  For paying Steve Jobs to turn those sins into a lifestyle
  
  And a product
  And an industry
  And an identity
  A badge of honor
  
  ...
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