Peter's Viewpoint

Excuses used in the backroom of Apple and other major companies and by their CEO’s are to sooth their own guilt as to why they produce their products overseas.

"It's not about money..." It's because people want to live normal lives with their families.

How many company advertisements quote something like that with "It's not about People.” at the end of the slogan?  They really must believe that people are that stupid.

Maybe it is time for the people to sell off all of their stocks, let the Chinese buy them since they have the money now, and then watch as the big time CEO's get their asses fired by the Chinese who will simply say, "You can work for $3.00 a day!" if they are lucky.

If China and other Eastern – Asian countries are so great then why don't they offer the same benefits and laws to protect their own people?
The answer is:  That is why they have increased their population, the calculated murder of their workers, can be easily replaced.  If this sounds cold and cruel, it is.

A friend of mine says, “I can remember a few times when it was revealed that so called T.V. personalities were having clothing manufactured overseas in so called sweat shops. The popular named clothing lines were being sold in the US and the outcry forced companies to change their manufacturing base or go completely out of business.
Why is their no outcry about electronics or other products and services? 
What is the difference between women's clothing, computers, cell phones, and other electronic equipment when it comes to where and how they are manufactured?  A sweat shop is a sweat shop.  Just initiate a tariff on everything manufactured in China and the manufacturing jobs will begin to return. Or we can set a policy that states that all products sold in the US must be manufactured under humane conditions.
The lower taxes and regulations that the Republicans keep crying about will not achieve anything.  Businesses in the US cannot compete with a $1.00 an hour wage.”

I agree with him, the sweat shops are just an excuse for those who are extreme profiteering.
It is a sad that companies that have been started with the money of the people of the USA and other western countries have abandoned the goals that western society strived to make, namely work, family, life.

The following texts are excerpts from a report, see the link below.
“When one reads about these working conditions--12-16 hour shifts, pay of ~$1 per hour or less, dormitories with 15 beds in 12x12 rooms--the obvious assumption is that it's all about money…”

“Manufacturing an iPhone in the United States would cost about $65 more than manufacturing it in China, where it costs an estimated $8. This additional $65 would dent the profit Apple makes on each iPhone, but it wouldn't eliminate it. (The iPhone average selling price is about $600, and Apple's average gross margin is about 40%. So Apple's gross profit on each iPhone is probably in the neighborhood of $250.)”

“And, lastly, China's workforce is much hungrier and more frugal than many of their counterparts in the United States.
On this last point, Duhigg and Bradsher tell the story of Eric Saragoza, an engineer who began working in an Apple factory near Sacramento in 1995. The plant made Macs, and for a few years, Saragoza did well, earning $50,000 a year, getting married and having kids, and buying a house with a pool.”

In other words, America and other Western countries must give up their way of thinking about family life, their children, and what the men and women who fought and died for the labor laws and rights.  Give up your 8 hour work day, agree to live in sweat shop style company cities, and you will be guaranteed work.

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Instead of this outcome, foreign nations should learn to respect Western nations, implement similar laws, educate their people, and maybe there would be less corruption, pollution, and wars on this planet.

As for the profiteers, who do you think has been buying those products and services giving and you those bonuses while financing your company?

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