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I welcome immigrants. In fact, I’d like to have a program where we send out one native-born spoiled, commie wannabe who hates America, and bring in one hard working immigrant who wants to experience American opportunity. A foreign exchange program.
I hope they start with a test, so the most ignorant are sent out first; like the hate-spewers that don't know the difference between communism and social democracy. Don't think any country would accept those, though; so they'd probably just be set adrift on some barge until they end up at the Great Pacific garbage patch.
 
Apple contributes to ‘structural discrimination’ by pricing their products such that only the wealthy privileged can afford them. iPhones should be given away to anyone who can’t afford one to provide equal opportunity if he wants to practice what he proclaims
 
He has a platform to talk about this stuff, but he’s an operations guy, and not a complete products guy, so it comes off he doesn’t care about the platform he so proudly uses to shout off the things he appears to care about.
 
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He has a platform to talk about this stuff, but he’s an operations guy, and not a complete products guy, so it comes off he doesn’t care about the platform he so proudly uses to shout off the things he appears to care about.
Tim Cook: *openly gay man that's spent ~10 years as CEO of Apple, one of the largest companies in the world*
MR-warrior: He's not qualified to speak about what Apple will do to fight systemic racism and inequalities.
 
What he is talking about? The pandemic hit harder the most developed countries in the world. The infection and death rate in Europe and North America was far greater than in Africa, India and other developing countries/regions.
In the developed countries, the pandemic hit minorities hardest, for lots of reasons. And the pandemic has hit older people hardest, and there are plenty of developing countries where people still don't grow that old.
 
Then maybe Apple should stop running sweat shops in China. You can't act like you want the best for all, and then turn around and contribute to workers being treated like garbage.
1. The increase of salaries in China in the last 10-15 years is to a large extent due to Apple.
2. People in China love to have jobs that pay salaries.
3. What evidence do you have that Apple contributes to workers in China being treated like garbage?
 
What evidence do you have that Apple contributes to workers in China being treated like garbage?
They buy from factories that we know aren't treating their people even close to what we in the west would find suitable; and it is hypocritical of them to have one set of standards for their local neighbourhoods, and another for people suffering in other countries.
 
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Is there a more sanctimonious CEO out there? Still no word from Tim on the human rights abuses in China..
I posted this in the other thread.


Basically Tim Cook has been criticized for many years, while MR posters try to spin the business dealings with China into criticism. And while everyone is entitled to their opinion, it just seems the universe isn't aligned with this criticism.
 
I posted this in the other thread.


Basically Tim Cook has been criticized for many years, while MR posters try to spin the business dealings with China into criticism. And while everyone is entitled to their opinion, it just seems the universe isn't aligned with this criticism.

Is that it?

The human rights abuses are ok but don't try to circumvent the app store. Dear me..
 
What he is talking about? The pandemic hit harder the most developed countries in the world. The infection and death rate in Europe and North America was far greater than in Africa, India and other developing countries/regions.
It's just an assumption, but I don't think we have the real numbers for such continents/countries.
So comparing graphs won't help.
 
I welcome immigrants. In fact, I’d like to have a program where we send out one native-born spoiled, commie wannabe who hates America, and bring in one hard working immigrant who wants to experience American opportunity. A foreign exchange program.
So basically your exchange program would turn away a native born American who points out the flaws in their country in favor of an immigrant who has to do hard labour for a minimum wage, no American wants to do, while not getting the same opportunities and rights?


So migrants come to the USA, discover it’s a cesspool of systemic racism and a gazillion other “isms”, and they don’t think to call their kin back home warning them it’s not really a land of opportunity?
if their primary concern is feeding their children and surviving the day, then no.
 
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What he is talking about? The pandemic hit harder the most developed countries in the world. The infection and death rate in Europe and North America was far greater than in Africa, India and other developing countries/regions.
Can’t help stupid leaders with stupid followers who think it’s just a cold.
 
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Apple contributes to ‘structural discrimination’ by pricing their products such that only the wealthy privileged can afford them. iPhones should be given away to anyone who can’t afford one to provide equal opportunity if he wants to practice what he proclaims
So should food, a mansion and a Maserati. But life doesn't work that way.

Well actually food can be gotten for free at least from the US Gov't .
 
It's just an assumption, but I don't think we have the real numbers for such continents/countries.
So comparing graphs won't help.
Africa is not hit as hard by the pandemic partially due to a much younger demographic, more rural less densely populated areas, a more favourable climate and no culture of putting the elderly in retirement homes.
 
They buy from factories that we know aren't treating their people even close to what we in the west would find suitable; and it is hypocritical of them to have one set of standards for their local neighbourhoods, and another for people suffering in other countries.

I always find it odd we in the West think we know what's best for other countries or what the people of other countries want.

We think we know what's best for Chinese workers, for people in the Middle East, etc., etc.

Benevolent, wealthy white people swooping in to save the day (again)!
 
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