If Americans would stop buying products made by slaves, jobs (not Steve Jobs) would return to America.

As Obama said, we need to tax the bejesus out of companies that have sent American jobs overseas and give tax breaks to the ones that didn't.

You're only ghey if you push back while Apple farks the faithful dry.

NFA: If Americans would stop buying products made by slaves, jobs (not Steve Jobs) would return to America.

As Obama said, we need to tax the bejesus out of companies that have sent American jobs overseas and give tax breaks to the ones that didn't.

It's a bit more complicated than that, but I agree with the sentiment. My fear is that it would be like trying to get toothpaste back in the tube. I think the '50s, '60s and early '70s were the apogee of the U.S. middle class.

Too many people were lured by the low prices at Walmart, putting stores selling American goods out of business. The Walton family did more damage to this country than al-Qaeda.

Fanboys would pay it.

I don't own an iPhone.

What about all the other companies that use this type of labor.

/I guess you gotta start somewhere.

NFA: If Americans would stop buying products made by slaves, jobs (not Steve Jobs) would return to America.

As Obama said, we need to tax the bejesus out of companies that have sent American jobs overseas and give tax breaks to the ones that didn't.

But my 401(k) might decline by as much as 3% if we did that! Have you taken leave of your senses?

Were people somehow deluding themselves that these super nifty electronics we've been using over the past decade were fair trade?

I kinda wonder where all this backlash was when Jobs was alive.

I mean, it isn't like they just started making iPhones and iPods and other Apple products.

Aren't they already selling one that costs a couple of thousand dollars anyway?

I think they call it "every iPhone ever made"

/applies to most other smartphones, too

oh this thread again

Speaker2Animals: My fear is that it would be like trying to get toothpaste back in the tube.

Give me a shop vac, some PVC, duct tape and a funnel and I'll get that paste back in that tube for ya.

Speaker2Animals: The Walton family did more damage to this country than al-Qaeda.

Honestly, these are the wisest words written on FARK in a long, long time.

bigpeeler: Speaker2Animals: The Walton family did more damage to this country than al-Qaeda.

Honestly, these are the wisest words written on FARK in a long, long time.

I dunno man, Al Queda got Bush re-elected, thats some serrious farking damage. Though walmart, yea probably more damage, far more deaths too.

Ah, the time-honored tradition of taking an article and making it all about unrelated things that you hate.

Good times.

Considering Apple made $13 billion in PROFIT last quarter, and has 63,300 employees, they could pay an extra 205,371.25 per employee per QUARTER and still not be in the red.

So somehow I think labor costs are not a contributing factor to the price of an iPad or iPhone.

The Chinese are not apple employees and are not listed as such. They are employees of Foxconn who is seemingly one of three or four companies that mfg electronics in china. Almost every phone and pad and game console is apparently made in a Foxconn plant.

sidmind: bigpeeler: Speaker2Animals: The Walton family did more damage to this country than al-Qaeda.

Honestly, these are the wisest words written on FARK in a long, long time.

Third that.

Thanks. In a town not too far from me, K-mart opened its first Super-K in the early 1990s. On a wall above the row of cash registers were the logos of all the Ohio-made products sold in the store -- representing perhaps 35-40 different companies IIRC. Fast forward about 3-4 years and Wally World opens up about a quarter-mile down the road. As the days and weeks and months pass, more and more of those logos disappear, as the companies themselves disappear or their goods can't compete with the cheap shiat being peddled at Wally World. Eventually, they were all gone. The Super K is now a practically a ghost town and is slated to be closed this year as Sears shrinks its retail footprint. Down the road, Walmart is thriving, and even added a couple hundred thousand square feet to the store to sell food and other grocery items.

But Walmart didn't just buy cheap goods from China and the Far East. No, their executives actually went to the Chinese and told them if they were to build factories to manufacture various consumer goods, Walmart would guarantee them a market for these goods -- a very large market. And the short-sighted American consumer, lured by "Always low prices--Always" didn't care that they were sacrificing this country's financial well-being.

Sic transit gloria Americus.....

m3000

Considering Apple made $13 billion in PROFIT last quarter, and has 63,300 employees, they could pay an extra 205,371.25 per employee per QUARTER and still not be in the red.

So somehow I think labor costs are not a contributing factor to the price of an iPad or iPhone.

Uh, no. The Chinese workers are not on Apple's payroll.

/another iHater pwned by reality

Amagi:
Bah, give it rest you idiots. If American's had not have been so desperate

Comedy gold! Calling other people idiots and then making an idiotic mistake with an apostrophe.

Apple has this brand that appeals to ethical consumers

Didn't realize you linked to a satire website. You almost had me there.