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Aaron Sorkin Blasts Tim Cook for Calling Steve Jobs Films 'Opportunistic'
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That's a straw man argument because American workers have absolutely nothing to do with this. They do a lot better at the factories than living in the country. Why would so many leave their tranquil country life to go work in a factory? Because they're starving out there! At least in the city they can get a job that has a living wage at a factory. Like it or not, it's an improvement over the current situation. Can Apple do more to improve things? Certainly, but at some point they might as well bring their business back to America if it's going to cost that much…speaking of which…
If you want to talk about the US, Apple can't afford to make stuff over here because we screwed up. The republicans passed laws and encouraged trade deals to allow all these companies to easily move operations over seas. The democrats with the unions encouraged unsustainable labor wages for low skilled positions. Everyone messed up. There needs to be a more balanced approach to these things but a bunch of bloody idiots are running our country from one complete extreme to another when neither works!
And you are a poor reader. Look again.
It's about time someone called out Apple for this stupid Neo-slavery nonsense that's infested the world.
You do realise that every consumer electronics company uses the same companies as Apple do right?
And you realise that China is a sovereign country with its own laws and regulations that these companies adhere to. Unless you want to tell the Chinese what to do with their own people?
(which is a pretty f*d up thing considering that no one gets to tell America what to do with its people).
no. foxconn workers make more on the order of $17USD/day. for a 10hour day. about 400/month. a very good salary in rural china. sorkin's a blowhard. i hear the movie's good, and he's a good writer. but he's a blowhard. tim is just defending against all the negative stuff about steve that people, storytellers and news pundits, like to.. yes, capitalize, on. it's in their nature. just as you can't fault tim for defending his friend and the creator of his epic company. it's all fine. aaron: go do another line. tim: smile. apple lovers: keep buying. foxconn workers: keep assembling. justice is restored throughout the land.
So someone giving away their estate after they are dead makes them great? What a load, what good is it to him after he is dead?
Aaron Sorkin made that movie to further his career, just like every other screenwriter/producer. Whether or not "he and other top executives on the project had taken pay cuts to get the film made" is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things; that's merely a clever calculation made in the hope their stars in Hollywood burn just that little bit brighter.
I wonder if when Sorkin and the rest of Hollywood are snorting cocaine off a hookers ass, they spare a thought for the people that are beheaded and skinned alive in Mexico via gang warfare. Just to bring them their precious white powder that they can stuff up their noses. I think that's a tad "opportunistic" as well.
We are all guilty for causing pain to someone else somewhere in this world. No one should be patting themselves on the back. It's a fact of life. I don't see how childish spats help things. Besides at least Cook has contributed to lifting 100's of millions of Chinese out of poverty. What the **** has Sorkin done accept character assassinate successful young entrepreneurs?
We are all guilty for causing pain to someone else somewhere in this world. No one should be patting themselves on the back. It's a fact of life. I don't see how childish spats help things. Besides at least Cook has contributed to lifting 100's of millions of Chinese out of poverty. What the **** has Sorkin done accept character assassinate successful young entrepreneurs?
Obviously Cook hit a nerve. And we don't even know he was referring to Sorkin's movie.
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It's better than the 1 Yuan per hour you'd get elsewhere in China.
Careful about using the b word. Good people have had forced vacations from these forums after using that very emotive word.
You know who doesn't, though? Aaron Sorkin. I'm not sure what Dell, etc have to do with this.
That still doesn't make it false. Apple, HP, Dell, etc. all take advantage of cheap Chinese labor. Actually, it points out that neither the filmmakers nor Apple are wrong to make money off of something. If Tim Cook is going to bash them, he should check himself first.
He's probably jealous that they're making films about the ex-CEO.
I don't know who he is. A producer I assume.
I never care about who the author is or who the producer/director is for the most part. I have a friend who speaks about movies and books in terms of writer/director styles and I have no idea who he is talking about most of the time. Some of us focus on different things and could care less about who is who.
I agree with Tim. What Sorkin said was just a desperate cheap shot from a man making a desperately bad movie about one of the most important men to ever have walked this earth.
I always wondered about this. Just because Tim Cook thinks he is misrepresented, does that automatically mean Jobs was misrepresented. I mean Im sure Jobs was nice to his friends. But Jobs was a man with many personalities and he clearly was not a saint. I wouldnt be surprised if he treated 90% of the people he met badly
Steve Jobs, his entire life, didn't care what anyone thought of him. He didn't care how much of an ******* he looked like as long as he achieved his goals. I think it's fair in this case.
Maybe if you care about what people will say about you after you die, you can try looking better or being nicer to people, but I genuinely think he did not care. That's fine; his decision.
It's not a BURN if it's false. Apple does not allow factories to employ children, and they've done more to raise the employment standards in the East than most tech companies. Sorkin can suck his toe.