american tech companies use chinese slave and prison and otherwise exploited labor to maintain huge margins on their products? really? who fucking knew? until today, everybody probably believed that they paid unionized german and swiss craftsmen to build ipads. i mean, why wouldn't they? jesus.
of course these companies are fucking scumbags, but it is mostly the fault of the american government and its trade and labor polices. the question from obama about how we get ipads and macbooks made in america is a good one, but ultimately obama and the government are the only ones who can answer that question. if obama wants that shit made here, he would need to pursue policies that punished imports from slave-labor sources and rewarded production in the united states and other high-wage, high-quality countries. taxes, tariffs and other government incentives are very powerful tools. as it stands now, all of the benefits of government policies go to companies that utilize third-world labor and ship jobs overseas because these companies essentially are the government and rig the welfare state for their own benefit, so it once again obama was full of shit and grandstanding for a cheap soundbite.
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