It's certainly terrible, but unfortunately not unique in terms of workplace violence and self-harm:Come on, they are feeling so blessed they jump out of the windows so Cook needs to go there personally to meet with the suicide experts and the factory needs to install the suicide nets?
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I am not naive and understand that this issue might be widespread and common in Asia, but I do not want to treat it neither as normal nor acceptable.
I know how big it was when he was alive and how big it is now...and who has run it.
I said we know how to make money...happy is a completely different story, but many people aren’t happy.
Yep except communism actually means equal pay no matter what you do. China is definitely not actually communist any more. It's actually capitalist but run by a non-democratic totalitarian (sort of) government. No country is communist anymore, hardcore communism was attempted in Russia, but failed miserably, as it is human nature to want yourself and others to be rewarded accordingly for effort, so all that happened was corruption (which destroys any economy, as it is horribly inefficient). The reason it was attempted is because the opposite existed beforehand, where all the wealth was concentrated in the very few, to the point that the masses were starving to death (this is also not reward according to effort, so it also fails), and the masses held a revolution and the new leaders tried communism. Most modern countries have some variation of capitalism, as it is the easiest system that works itself towards reward according to effort. However, it is also easily distorted if the correct checks and balances aren't in place, and more and more we are seeing heavy concentrations of wealth to the few (who are rewarded far more than effort), and if it keeps going, eventually it will break. History is one long story of systems and empires working well at first, but then failing when the reward according to effort breaks down.
Official unemployment rates are garbage unfortunately. For example, here in Australia, if you work one single hour in a month, then you aren't counted as unemployed for that month's stats. Similarly, if you are out of work and looking for work, but haven't signed up for unemployment benefits, then you also aren't counted as unemployed. So these days (well, pre-covid), if someone loses their job, they often sign up for a bit of uber driving, or uber eats or similar gig work while they look for a job. So how do you think the unemployment stats in Australia look compared to the real numbers of people looking for work (we will never know, as those figures either aren't counted, or aren't available)? Why is it done that way? Because it makes the government look like they are doing a better job then they are.
What are you taking about? You don’t know the numbers?
Talking about what COULD be is a total waste of time. Apple could be bankrupt if Jobs were alive too. So what? The whole point I made was that Cook’s record is verifiable with facts.
So you don’t understand the metrics in which Cook has done better? Both have metrics you know.
