Dear Fred,
Thanks for your email.
Here's how I view the contributions made by the three American corporations you mention and how Apple is categorically different from Boeing and Walmart.
Here's how I view the contributions made by the three American corporations you mention and how Apple is categorically different from Boeing and Walmart.
Boeing "gives" me no value.
Indeed, as a foundational player in The Military Industrial Complex, Boeing picks my pocket (and compromises my conscience) every April 15th.
Please note that the "moral compromise" claimed by Hobby Lobby is trivial in comparison to the federal government's forced collusion with The Military Industrial Complex. Sticks and stones vs. nuclear weapons.
"Why We Fight," A Documentary Film About The Military Industrial Complex
Starring Dwight Eisenhower
Please note that the "moral compromise" claimed by Hobby Lobby is trivial in comparison to the federal government's forced collusion with The Military Industrial Complex. Sticks and stones vs. nuclear weapons.
"Why We Fight," A Documentary Film About The Military Industrial Complex
Starring Dwight Eisenhower
WalMart "gives" me a couple bucks' "savings" each month, savings made possible by failing to provide full-time workers sufficient recompense to live fully-dignified lives.
Notably, Wal-Mart employees' routine eligibility for "social services" is tantamount to The Walton Family picking my pocket every April 15th.
"Walmart: America's Real Welfare Queen"
On the other hand, Apple pays its employees better than most American corporations, simultaneously "giving" me thousands of dollars a year relative to what it once cost to accomplish publishing, recording and business functions crucial to my household economics.
Apple also facilitates highly desirable "vocational," "creative" and "work-a-day" achievements which, previously, I would not have attempted due to prohibitive expense.
Consider...
I just produced a music album -- my first -- with Teomazehualli, a choral group comprised of four Mexican friends.
Although I paid an Apple-based sound engineer a thousand dollars for his services, this production would have cost 10 to 30 times as much prior to 1990 - way more than I could afford.
http://teomazehualli.
Although I paid an Apple-based sound engineer a thousand dollars for his services, this production would have cost 10 to 30 times as much prior to 1990 - way more than I could afford.
http://teomazehualli.
On the heels of this very satisfying creative venture, I already I envision four other recording projects and am confident I will undertake at least one of them... which will lead to another... and another.
In this sense, Apple not only creates jobs but jobs that are vital parts of peoples' lives, not just building blocks of the wage-slavery system.
Although "dollar amount" is a critical part of any "bottom line," "enhancement-of-creativity" also has a dollar value if only by making it less necessary to buy compensatory pleasures to fill the void created by "not having a life."
"The merely rich are not rich enough to rule the modern market. The things that change modern history, the big national and international loans, the big educational and philanthropic foundations, the purchase of numberless newspapers, the big prices paid for peerages, the big expenses often incurred in elections - these are getting too big for everybody except the misers; the men with the largest of earthly fortunes and the smallest of earthly aims. There are two other odd and rather important things to be said about them. The first is this: that with this aristocracy we do not have the chance of a lucky variety in types which belongs to larger and looser aristocracies. The moderately rich include all kinds of people even good people. Even priests are sometimes saints; and even soldiers are sometimes heroes. Some doctors have really grown wealthy by curing their patients and not by flattering them; some brewers have been known to sell beer. But among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it."
G. K. Chesterton
That said, I am heartily in favor of fleecing the rich, whose "free market profits" are an insult to any moral understanding of The Common Good.
"Pope Francis Links"
Absent a kinder phrase to epitomize the filthy rich, these capitalist pigs have surrendered their souls to avarice, the pathognomonic "Deadly Sin" of our age.
Conservatives fail to see the corrosive influence of greed since their obsession with "Lust" blinds them to free-market Capitalism as the prime mover -- and chief accelerant -- of all the Deadly Sins, including lust.
"We get what our advertisement promote" and unbridled capitalism is a non-stop meta-level advertisement for greed, gluttony, envy, lust, sloth, and -- by way of The Military-Industrial Complex -- pride and wrath. http://paxonbothhouses.
Conservatives fail to see the corrosive influence of greed since their obsession with "Lust" blinds them to free-market Capitalism as the prime mover -- and chief accelerant -- of all the Deadly Sins, including lust.
"We get what our advertisement promote" and unbridled capitalism is a non-stop meta-level advertisement for greed, gluttony, envy, lust, sloth, and -- by way of The Military-Industrial Complex -- pride and wrath. http://paxonbothhouses.
Bill Maher: The 85 Richest People Own More Than The Bottom Half Of Humankind
"The Pitchforks Are Coming For Us Billionaires"
"The Is Why They Hate You And Want You To Die"
The Reformed Broker
http://paxonbothhouses.
"The Rich Aren't Just Grabbing A Bigger Slice Of The Pie. They're Taking It All"
http://paxonbothhouses.
"Politics And Economics: The 101 Courses You Wish You Had"
http://paxonbothhouses.
"The Rich Aren't Just Grabbing A Bigger Slice Of The Pie. They're Taking It All"
http://paxonbothhouses.
"Politics And Economics: The 101 Courses You Wish You Had"
http://paxonbothhouses.
"Plutocracy Triumphant"
Cartoon Compendium
"Taibbi: The $9 Billion Whistle Blower At JPMorgan-Chase. Financial Thuggery At The Top"
"Being Poor Changes The Way You Think About Everything"
Pax tecum
Alan
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Fred Owens <froghospital911@gmail.com> wrote:
Apple is the world's biggest corporation, but has only 85,000 employees.Wal-Mart, not quite as big, has 1.4 million employees.
Wal-Mart has crummy jobs and Apple has no jobs. This is not good.Lefties despise Wal-Mart but love Apple. Please explain that.Boeing builds very good airplanes with 170,000 workers who mostly get pretty good wages....... this is an old-style corporation, and I think you need a company this big, with this many workers, to build a modern jet airplane.
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