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Paul Buchheit reports via Common Dreams
An emotional response to any criticism of the Apple Corporation might be anticipated from the users of the company's powerful, practical, popular, and entertaining devices. Accolades to the company and a healthy profit are certainly well-deserved. But much-despised should be the theft from taxpayers and the exploitation of workers and customers, all cloaked within the image of an organization that seems to work magic on our behalf.
1. Apple Took Years of Public Research, Integrated the Results, and Packaged it as Their Own
2. Even After Taking Our Research, Apple Does Everything in its Power to Avoid Taxes
3. Overcharging Customers
The manufacturing cost of a 16 GB iPhone 6 is about $200, and with marketing it comes to about $288. But without an expensive phone contract with Verizon, AT&T, or one of the other wireless carriers, the cost to the customer is at least $650.
4. Underpaying and Mistreating Employees
5. Apple Has Figured Out How to Spend Most of its Untaxed Money on Itself
Apple's View:
The tax-avoiding, research-appropriating, cost-escalating, wage-minimizing, self-enriching Apple Corporation has, according to CEO Tim Cook,[1] a very strong moral compass.
[1] Link in article redirects.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by GungnirSniper on Wednesday May 20 2015, @01:35PM
Stop conflating FDR's confiscatory economic policies with the fact that Europe, the USSR, and east Asia were wastelands. America had the only factories left, and boomed because there was no competition.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2015, @07:28PM
You would have a point *if* by 1937 USA wasn't back on its feet and climbing out of the hole that (Free-Market Republicans) Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover dug.
In fact, FDR was goaded by Wall Street into dialing back his programs in 1937 and the economy started to tank again (due a reduced Multiplier Effect).
WWII was NOT what got USA out of the Depression.
It was smart financial thinking (relying on the Multiplier Effect) and full employment building|rebuilding USA's infrastructure using the taxes paid by the rich who had benefited so much from The Commons.
What WWII got USA was a reliance on building weapons and the Orwellian condition of permanent warfare (wars of aggression).
-- gewg_