Comments on: Tech wrap: Apple cares, says CEO Tim Cook http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2012/01/27/tech-wrap-apple-cares-says-ceo-tim-cook/ Where media and technology meet Fri, 24 May 2013 10:42:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: citizen2000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2012/01/27/tech-wrap-apple-cares-says-ceo-tim-cook/comment-page-1/#comment-391305 citizen2000 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:29:17 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/?p=33456#comment-391305 Multi-national companies are no longer good citizens of their communities because they are now stateless. It used to be that a company was a member of the community and you could identify a company as an American company or a German company, etc but now they are looking for the cheapest labor, the least restrictive environmental regulations, no unions, or whatever local situation they can exploit. The problem is that we don't want the kind of America it takes to compete on that stage. The only way to beat that system is with innovation and a great education system but American universities are giving that away too. We need to protect our innovations and the industries they produce or our best export will be the misery we inflict on workers in China and the rest of the developing world. Read more at www.china-threat.com Multi-national companies are no longer good citizens of their communities because they are now stateless. It used to be that a company was a member of the community and you could identify a company as an American company or a German company, etc but now they are looking for the cheapest labor, the least restrictive environmental regulations, no unions, or whatever local situation they can exploit.

The problem is that we don’t want the kind of America it takes to compete on that stage. The only way to beat that system is with innovation and a great education system but American universities are giving that away too. We need to protect our innovations and the industries they produce or our best export will be the misery we inflict on workers in China and the rest of the developing world. Read more at http://www.china-threat.com

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