actuallyalivingsaint:erroneous-logic:failurepersonified:thetrippytrip: Apple is based out of
actuallyalivingsaint: erroneous-logic: failurepersonified: thetrippytrip: Apple is based out of California, they generated 233.7 billon dollars in revenue last year. Yet Apple refuses to manufacture in the USA. Apple has continued to use Foxconn as their manufacturer, and America has continued to turn the other cheek. But everybody seems to forget that Apple isn’t the only company to have their products made by Foxconn. Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo’s major consoles, all made by Foxconn. They make TVs for Sony, Sharp, and Toshiba. Phones for Nokia, Huawei, and Motorola. They’re a major assembler of PCs for Dell, Acer, and Hewlett-Packard. This is a lot worse than just one company. This is what happens when you tax the fuck out of everything that moves and mandate minimum wages. It gets too expensive, so businesses cut costs wherever they can. No this is what happens when capitalism runs the world. It costs less to pay people sweatshop wages than a fair wage. Yes and no. Wages for skilled, or even semi-skilled labor in the U.S. are so high, due to the rampant taxing of everything that everybody has to pay for, presumably from their wages, that not only is it cheaper to pay the sweat shop prices, it’s cheaper to pay the sweat shop prices AND the cost of shipping your goods back halfway around the world AND the import tariffs than it is to pay someone enough to do your job -and- give the government their cut of the money that they had literally no hand whatsoever in you earning, beyond being a hindrance to you earning it in the first place. -- source link