A waste of anger
95% of people will not notice the change, it's still a glass cube.
Obviously, this $6 million on the glass cube has pushed a button for you, and if you really feel this angry at it, you should stop buying Apple products. Don't give money to any company you think is frivolous and wasteful. I think, however, that your anger at Apple is misplaced.
Apple did create jobs with this. If your woman with her daughter had been given a job with the paperwork or whatever on this new cube, and that had helped with the medical bills...would you still be angry about this $6 million? Because that $6 million went into a lot of things. It went to pay for the glass and paid off glass makers and workers at the glass company. It went to those construction workers, and those fixing the drains.
Would $6 million have cured leukemia? Cured AIDS? You really don't know if it would have been better spent being given to research rather than helping some construction workers feed their families and pay of THEIR children's medical bills. But I think Apple has become your scapegoat with this, emblematic for all the uncaring companies and such that have been greedy and frivolous and wasteful.
And yes, the new cube is being noticed and people are going to see it--what do you think that long line outside it is all about? If you say, "It's new and improved and changed!" People will revisit to check it out for themselves. And, as said, more revenue, more taxes, etc. And, in the meantime, Apple
is giving money to worthy causes. It does have more money to spend than that $6 million, and I suspect that it is giving more than that to those worthy causes, and so, like so many scapegoats, is undeserving of your anger.
I think, however, that using this frivolity to create a scapegoat and channel all your anger over that little girls situation towards Apple is a waste of anger; all it does is keep you from seeing the real enemies you need to fight--the companies that aren't paying taxes and firing rather than hiring people (unlike Apple in this instance)--so no one can pay their kids medical bills--or the banks that gambled away customers' money so they can no longer afford to take their kids to doctors, and the politicians who wasted trillions on a pointless war rather than creating health care system that would get that poor little girl what she needed, and keep her mother from struggling.
A $6 million donation from Apple to leukemia research doesn't give the mother a job or guarantee the daughter a cure. But a change in how things are done in this country could do both. Is this cube really worth all that anger? Or are you just wasting it like you think they wasted their money?