I know its heresy to many, but Apple is NOT a company worth admiring or supporting. That "profit" - whether it is exactly as stated or only partially correct - represents the gutting of America's middle class in vivid detail.
You see, people always run around asking the wrong question - "what happened to America's middle class" - instead of asking the right question - "where did the money go that USED to support America's middle class?"
The fact that Apple builds these things in China, utilizing slave labor camps and exploiting humanity on a scale not seen since Giza was a sand dune of no real significance, is a HUGE indicator of where exactly that money went. It goes to the "profits" of the corporations like Apple, who take the jobs, businesses and careers with good paying futures out of the United States and to the lowest bidder - even if that lowest bidder uses job standards and practices that are barbaric and inhumane.
If you are viewing this on an iPhone or iPad or iMac or Macbook, congratulations you can easily identify a big part of the problem every time you power on said device. But fear not, I am just as guilty (as is nearly EVERYONE) when I power on my LCD or LED monitor made in China or Indonesia to view the same things you see on your Apple doomsday devices.
Where did the jobs go? That's no mystery at all - they went to China and everywhere else that people work for next to nothing to avoid starving. They went to places where the people who make the devices cannot buy one with a year's wages.
Why did the jobs go? GREED. Plain and simple. It is unchecked, unabated greed that allows this to persist. Its sickening and its wrong and its at the heart or every single one of our problems in the world.
Greed for land.
Greed for money.
Greed for power.
Greed for profits.
I hate Apple.
I hate what they stand for.
I hate that they dream up such marvelous technology and then do everything in their power to make a buck (or a few hundred billion of them) without improving their communities, their country.
They (and everyone like them that design fantastic technology only to outsource the manufacturing to subhuman people mills) are part and parcel of the problems we face. They are thieves in the night, taking their "profits" by gutting the American Dream. They cut their "profits" out of us all in the form of lost careers, lost opportunities, lost hope, lost dignity...all for a greater sum of money they can't spend in two lifetimes.
Let's be clear, making iPhones or iPads in the USA is NOT impossible as was intimated around the time of Steve Jobs demise...its just more expensive, more costly to put that money into the hands of governments and citizens in the form of wages and taxes. Instead of being the richest, most "profitable" corporation in the history of humanity, Apple would have to "settle" for being the engine of economic growth for a large segment of America's 21st century middle class. They would have to provide jobs and careers to thousands of Americans instead of an army of Chinese slaves. They would have to circulate money in American towns and communities instead of pocketing it all and having even bigger trust funds for their great, great grandchildren. In short, they would have to actually give back to the very system that begat them and it would have to set a standard for corporate behavior that would shame the rest of the greed run amok in American businesses. They would have to give up the country club chairmanship and settle for being just another member of a slightly less exclusive and unnecessary club.
Apple makes me sick.
People who use their products should at the very least consider what they are supporting and THEN choose as their conscience allows.
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