It's business but I just expect a more nuanced public response from Tim Cook.
Or at least I used to. But this is the same man who had Apple invest billions in China's economy/industry/infrastructure and turn around and say we in the US just don't have the knowledge and skill to build things for Apple. I don't think of him in quite the same regard as I used to after reading about that. I know, business is business. Well part of business is understanding customers are going to feel a certain way about your business practices and may very well reflect that in what they buy.
Good will can be eroded.
Completely agree. The hubris and complete detachment from any sense of doing what is right for the country that gave the conditions for Apple to be created in the first place and grow to what it is now.
I have no problem with any other country. China is an amazing country with a rich history. BUT they are a Communist dictatorship and have at the very least competitive ambition's with the US if not more sinister intentions as an end goal.
As time passes and China gains more and more power and money they are hiding their true intentions of global domination less and less. Yet people like Tim Cook have essentially given the Chinese a huge advantage they would have never had on their own. Many corporate leaders took the Faustian bargain of incredibly cheap production costs while giving up their IP in the process, building or designing state of the art production plants and paying for them to some extent of not completely. Now China has them owned.
We in America were told by doing this the Chinese would see the benefits of the capitalist system and slowly turn away from Communism and be a strong ally like Japan. But that promise was false and the opposite has happened. It has only enriched and emboldened the CCP. Tim Cook bears a lot of responsibility for this.
Apple being the first trillion dollar company had a unique opportunity to bring manufacturing back to America. This would have brought thousands of high paying jobs. It would have boosted our national security and economy. It would have set off a spark that other companies would follow. It would have given Apple a huge leap in control over the manufacturing and production schedules of their products. Instead we were told by Cook that there aren't enough high skilled workers and that the infrastructure doesn't exist here. (Maybe because it was dismantled, sold, and exported to places like China)
To bring back manufacturing to the US would be costly at first but it could be done. The entire supply chain that is in China could be replicated here. But it would take vision, sacrifice, and perseverance and a cut to the bottom line.
But most of corporate leadership thinks the average American is an idiot. Lazy and stupid. They don't have any allegiance to their home country when they sell to global markets and are beholden to shareholders. They see how they can maximize profit at all costs as that is all that matters to them. Let America fall apart and waste away, who cares when you have larger emerging markets like India, and China.
This is a view of the world that seriously angers me. The Chinese are very smart and they understand how important making things is to an economy. I wish we could all cooperate and get along as countries and share are wealth so everyone around the world has a decent standard of living. But this is not historically accurate mindset. Countries don't share beyond what makes economic sense. Beyond that they compete. Who has the most money at the end of the day dictates how the world is run. To the victors run the spoils.
In the next 50 years unless we dramatically shift course by bringing many industries back to the US our entire way of life will dramatically change for the worse. We may have already waited too long.
The advantage that is unique to the United States is not that our labor is the cheapest or best but that our combination of free Enterprise, free education and the idea anyone can be a success creates more entrepreneurship which leads to new ideas and products and to companies like Apple. You don't see a company like Apple or Tesla, or Microsoft, etc created in communist dictatorship? You have tons of copies but that actual innovation never happens in heavily government controlled countries.
So how is some kid in his basement going to start up the next Apple or Microsoft in America when so many have simply given up on the country as a whole? You aren't going to get that type of company in any other country because the conditions are different not because America is superior or other places lack talent but the unique combination of conditions in America are what make it great, the mix of many people from many backgrounds and national origins, the idea anyone can make it, the large free economy, lack of burdensome regulations and government control, etc.
And finally the idea that Americans don't know how to or are willing to work in a factory is such an insult to the large blue color industry here. There are entire states filled with people who would love to stop working 2 and 3 gig or service jobs to get a decent paying factory job. Not everyone goes to college and not everyone wants to. Working with your hands used to be a source of pride and now for some reason it is looked down upon. People feel proud when they are a part of producing things people all over the world use. I know many Americans who would line up for a good factory job if there were any.
years ago I saw a patent for a completely touch+haptic macbook and tbh I thought they'd have gone there by now. I'm very very glad they haven't but I kinda feel it's inevitable.
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