Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Apple has more cash than the US at the expense of workers in the US and China (video)

As you struggle to pay that house note or rent or just put food on the table consider what the cool trendy, techie Apple bosses do for a living. They pay the high end salaries for those that design their products in the US but have the actual product manufactured in countries where Unions are either weak or non existent. The very trendy Steve jobs who, like all these techie billionaires wears just jeans and a tee shirt or sweater to show to the world he is just one of us screws US workers and workers in China at the same time.

As the guy in the news report points out, Apple would have only maybe $10 or $20 billion cash on hand instead of $75 billion if they had to pay US workers our (temporarily) higher wages to manufacture their products which is an example of why the inequality gap has grown so vast here in the US. The problem is, they haven't driven us down to the levels of our Chinese or Vietnamese brothers and sisters-------yet. And when they do maybe they'll bring the jobs back.  Marx was right, workers have no country. International class solidarity and unity in action against international capital; it's a global struggle.

1 comment:

gary said...

Jobs and his cohorts are capitalist criminals and thugs and deserve to be treated as so with extremely progressive tax rates...

unfortunately, this is America under the rule of the TEA PARTY and this will not happen, b/c it would hurt the "job creators"

what a goddamn joke