Apple's revenue surges, blows away targets

[Moostache]

38. I read that article and it just makes me sad.

Profits over People...the motto of the world today.

Profits are more important than communities where a corporation claims to be "Headquartered"...
Profits are more important than the ecology and responsible use of resources and energy...
Profits are more important than the human toll of warehousing labor (in what is 1/8th of a step shy of concentration camps)...
Profits are more important than the people whose blood sweat and tears bring an idea to fruition...
Profits are more important than thinking things through for the long term...like the day that you tip past the point where your customer base runs out of money and your production base never made enough to buy what you're selling anyway...

Profits, profits, profits...of course anything worth doing is worth doing well for money, but there comes a point when the old axioms and expectations must go the way of the Do-do...if the world does not come to grips with the idea of controlling profit margins relative to the reinvestment and wages paid by a producer, then we are all doomed.

Those at the top - like Mittens the clown - shriek about how unfair the tax code is, while at the same time they pay nearly a THIRD of my percentage rate for taxation.

If I make a dollar as a working American, after state, federal and local taxes, I clear about $0.60.
If Mittens "invests" his money and makes an equivalent dollar, HE clears $0.85.

Nevermind that he also collects many, many times more $1 intervals than I do!