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No, the world isn't perfectly frictionless to the movement of labor (any adult should understand this) but we are moving toward a more global economy where companies like Apple get a lions share of their revenue in the ROW (62% in Apple's case last quarter) and employ people in those markets. Given that Apple has been able to keep 75% of the salaries in the US while leveraging the global supply chain is in itself remarkable, and they are growing in the US (adding 1,300 jobs in temporary offices in SF). Companies are not responsible for public policy in a nation, they have to respond/deal with it but they are not responsible for it.
You have a painfully simplistic view of the world and the global economy, even a highly biased and partisan economist like Paul Krugman would argue that globalization has very little to do with the inequities you see - your well aligned with Pekkkr on this point which should cause you concern. If you've ever been to where most of the people in the world live (Asia, Africa, Latin America) you will realize that the rest of the world is nothing like North America and Western Europe - we live in a gated community of privilege and connivence, our cries of pain and inequity sound hollow to most of the world.
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No, the world isn't perfectly frictionless to the movement of labor (any adult should understand this) but we are moving toward a more global economy where companies like Apple get a lions share of their revenue in the ROW (62% in Apple's case last quarter) and employ people in those markets. Given that Apple has been able to keep 75% of the salaries in the US while leveraging the global supply chain is in itself remarkable, and they are growing in the US (adding 1,300 jobs in temporary offices in SF). Companies are not responsible for public policy in a nation, they have to respond/deal with it but they are not responsible for it.
You have a painfully simplistic view of the world and the global economy, even a highly biased and partisan economist like Paul Krugman would argue that globalization has very little to do with the inequities you see - your well aligned with Pekkkr on this point which should cause you concern. If you've ever been to where most of the people in the world live (Asia, Africa, Latin America) you will realize that the rest of the world is nothing like North America and Western Europe - we live in a gated community of privilege and connivence, our cries of pain and inequity sound hollow to most of the world.
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