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Originally Posted by woj
You think there is something wrong with the fact that apple provided employment for 1000s of Chinese, who otherwise would farm in even worse conditions for fraction of what they make at those factories? Or which part exactly do you have a problem with?
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well, the part where, in the past, those imac jobs were in the USA? from the same article...
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In its early days, Apple usually didn?t look beyond its own backyard for manufacturing solutions. A few years after Apple began building the Macintosh in 1983, for instance, Mr. Jobs bragged that it was ?a machine that is made in America.? In 1990, while Mr. Jobs was running NeXT, which was eventually bought by Apple, the executive told a reporter that ?I?m as proud of the factory as I am of the computer.? As late as 2002, top Apple executives occasionally drove two hours northeast of their headquarters to visit the company?s iMac plant in Elk Grove, Calif.
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Maybe the corporate decision that they make more money paying chinese 17 bucks a day. Jobs that once belonged to americans at a living wage, working in factories that dont have explosions & high suicide rates.
i guess my beef is with capitalism, or its immorality, when CEOS decide the bottom line is most important. better to send low skilled labor to where its cheapest, regardless of the pay & working conditions of the people at the bottom.
Like i said, consumers dont care, CEOs dont care.