I think it's time for you to wake up! Your dream world is about to shatter in your face...
In a capitalistic society, you pay taxes like everyone else, but the tax that you pay makes lives easier for those who can no longer work.. such as YOU when you are too old to work.
In a communist society, you pay taxes.. and the money that you pay goes into making the government fatter and if you can no longer work, you die from lack of anything... unless your children and grandchildren can support you.. you're doomed!
I would rather pay taxes now and be taken care of when I'm old than to fatten up the commies...
... (for reasons mostly of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt [FUD])...
What? What are you trying to say?
Anyway, he definitely cares about China. A massive untapped market where Apple can pay suppliers dirt cheap amounts to pollute their surroundings, NIMBY style?
I just don't think the consumer market is worth a massive investment because people in general can't really afford Apple prices there, can't here either while we're at it, and those who can aren't really such a giant market segment that there's any reason to rush. Maybe I'm missing something.
In a capitalistic society, you pay 30% of what you earn for taxes , In a communist society, you pay 8%. I would rather throw 8% to government and keep rest 22% for my oldness. who knows if you are able to live that old to use up your tax money, that's how capitalistic society tricks you. you need to be little smarter
and u really think that u dont need as much money when u get old in a communist country or government healthcare is sufficient for old people in a communistic country, u must have not visited one.
North Korean, China, Russian old people beg to differ....they would LOVE to trade position with u in a heartbeat.
I really hope that, some day, you will appreciate the insane hilarity of claiming that Russia is a communist country. While there is no way of accurately classifying the current state of the Russian Federation along clear-cut capitalist/socialist dividing lines, parts of it are so laissez-faire that William F. Buckley would cream his trousers just at the thought of what a corporation can get away with.
Other parts are extremely corrupt and other parts (particularly those that relate to presidential power) show all the signs of a fascist military machine. Neither of these have anything to do with what Marx, Lenin or even Mao talked about when defining their particular version of the concept "communist".
And there are a ton of signs that China is going in an equally non-socialist/non-communist direction as well, although with different results. But I digress, and you, most likely, don't care about that either.
Also, getting back to the topic, I love how Lenovo's CEO is so expertly displaying a complete lack of cojones (being afraid of a company) while simultaneously, to paraphrase Bill Hicks, carrying around his balls in a wheelbarrow (publicly mocking Steve Jobs).
The problem with a communist country is that normal people like you and me have nothing while the government officials and their families have everything.
For example:
I can own a bicycle and live off of the land by growing crops on our farm. Every year, we would be paying "taxes" to the government, leaving us nothing to spare. If we have extras and want to sell them to make a better living, we would be imprisoned for supposedly "making a profit out of government properties."
My neighbor who is a member of the communist party, however, can do whatever he wants and have big mansions with Bentleys and whatnot. No one bothers him... all he has to do is "steal" from the rest of us hard workers.
Been there, done that.
My family, for example, has been badly affected by the communists. My grandparents on both sides were extremely rich people. In 1954 when the communists took over North Vietnam, my grandparents lost everything. They even tried to kill them because rich people were the most influential people. My grandparents were extremely kind to he villagers, so they stood up for them and would not allow the communists to do anything to my grandparents, so they lived to die at their old age instead of being tortured and killed by the communists like other rich people whose villagers can careless about.
I can imagine Chinese communists to have something in that regard... where normal people don't have anything while communist party members steal everything from the people and therefore are extremely rich compared to the rest of the county.
The problem with a communist country is that normal people like you and me have nothing while the government officials and their families have everything.
For example:
I can own a bicycle and live off of the land by growing crops on our farm. Every year, we would be paying "taxes" to the government, leaving us nothing to spare. If we have extras and want to sell them to make a better living, we would be imprisoned for supposedly "making a profit out of government properties."
My neighbor who is a member of the communist party, however, can do whatever he wants and have big mansions with Bentleys and whatnot. No one bothers him... all he has to do is "steal" from the rest of us hard workers.
Been there, done that.
My family, for example, has been badly affected by the communists. My grandparents on both sides were extremely rich people. In 1954 when the communists took over North Vietnam, my grandparents lost everything. They even tried to kill them because rich people were the most influential people. My grandparents were extremely kind to he villagers, so they stood up for them and would not allow the communists to do anything to my grandparents, so they lived to die at their old age instead of being tortured and killed by the communists like other rich people whose villagers can careless about.
I can imagine Chinese communists to have something in that regard... where normal people don't have anything while communist party members steal everything from the people and therefore are extremely rich compared to the rest of the county.
and u really think that u dont need as much money when u get old in a communist country or government healthcare is sufficient for old people in a communistic country, u must have not visited one.
North Korean, China, Russian old people beg to differ....they would LOVE to trade position with u in a heartbeat.
That's actually false.
My grandparents receive retirement money. About $1000 USD a month.
He wasn't a government official before, he was just a regular doctor.
Free healthcare too.
You want to live in an "idea" but in reality no country has ever achieve the true concept of "communism", at least no significant amount of time or large enough of a population. At the end of the day, human greed for power or money defeats the "ideal or concept". It's clearly on display in China or Russia. Either case, you would be better off growing old in good old USA than one of those countries.
Who said anything about where I want to spend my days, be it the later ones or any other? I'm perfectly happy to spend my life in my present place of residence, which, unless I've been hallucinating for the entirety of my life, is not an "idea". It's a real country. You're welcome to come visit anytime.
I was merely making some remarks on the fact that your comment displayed a very uninformed view of what categorizes the Russian Federation. Whether or not you consider communism possible to achieve in reality, is completely beside the point. You were suggesting that Russia is communist, which is pretty ridiculous to anyone that hasn't been living under a rock for the last 20 years.
Opening stores won't take them very far. You have to understand the Chinese customer to succeed in China, starting from the product design. Understanding other markets than the US has never been Apple's strengths. Many US companies don't even think they need to know the local customers. I think that's what the Lenovo CEO was referring to.
They're the third largest public corporation on the planet. I think they have a rough idea what they're doing.
What? What are you trying to say?
Anyway, he definitely cares about China. A massive untapped market where Apple can pay suppliers dirt cheap amounts to pollute their surroundings, NIMBY style?
I just don't think the consumer market is worth a massive investment because people in general can't really afford Apple prices there, can't here either while we're at it, and those who can aren't really such a giant market segment that there's any reason to rush. Maybe I'm missing something.