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Leon[_7_]

On 10/12/2011 12:05 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:48:28 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On 12 Oct 2011 11:55:54 GMT, wrote:

"Ed wrote in
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wrote in message
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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.

I own no Apple products. As for Jobs and jobs, I'd guess he is no
better or worse than any other computer/electronics maker. What
portable phone is made in the US or Canada? Try to find a toaster not
made in China. Yet we buy because it is such a good value. Is it?

The Pogo rule seems to apply inmost cases. "we have met the enemy and
it is us:

Pretty soon the US$ will have devalued sufficiently so that manufacturing
here will become profitable again (it is already for cars and some other
things). Now whether this new-found wealth will flow to workers or
investors/rich people will be the next question ...

What's your best guess, Han? Why should things change regarding
wealth?

IMNSHO, we will grow the economy more if we let the less affluent buy
more ...

GOOD punchline.g
(On the off chance that you're serious, what's your logic there? How
do the poor buy more?)

There are exceptions to this answer but the poor buy more by earning
more. The poor will remain poor as long as they are given things that
they did not earn. The poor have no business trying to keep up with the
Jones. For those that don't know how to earn and are capable, they need
to learn how.