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I'm almost betting though that either he's read Friedman's the World's Flat, or any of the other neo liberal tracts. It is not apple that follows this model... it is the US Manufacturing base...
So if you got an issue with apple, you got an issue with MANY OTHER COMPANIES. Today I got Hi Tech Boots, hiking boots. They're made in China. They follow the exact model. Though they were "cheap," their real cost is not in the fifty bucks I paid for them. It is in the environmental degradation involved, the working conditions of the Chinese workforce, the lack of taxes paid in the US to build OUR infrastructure, and the energy cost to transport them across the ocean. In fact, the real cost is closer to a thousand bucks.
We call that externalizing costs... and until we either start putting tariffs at the border making this business model obsolete, or we start paying the real cost, this ain't gonna stop. It don't matter if this is a Macbook, a Samsung Computer, or those Hi Tech Hiking boots.
So I'd recommend starting to see the whole picture, and not just a tiny little slice of it.
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