"scritch" wrote:

A brilliant innovator and marketer. Changed the way we work with
computers.

However, Apples have stolen family-wage jobs here to be made in
foreign factories that cruelly exploit their employees and ruin the
environment, with the expectation that the poor folks here will
still forever buy the Apples with their last dimes, all to enrich
some shareholders who apparently believe these bad practices will
never affect them.

I'm pretty conflicted about Mr. Jobs.
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During the last half of the 19th century (1870-1900) and the first
half of the
20th century (1901-1950), the industrial revolution eliminated
thousands of
jobs on the farms, driving people to the cities looking for low paying
jobs.

This led to the formation of the labor movement and a better way of
life.

Continued development of automation has continued to reduce the need
for manual labor performed by the uneducated with the exception of
harvesting
fruits and vegetables.

Jobs and Apple are simply driving the process of needing a better
educated
society on a world wide basis.

Look at today's job market.

There are lots of jobs available in high-tech industries, but a lack
of trained
applicants to fill those jobs.

It's a major problem our society faces.


Lew