Oh well, guess we should stop all attempts at improving society guys. Apple can do it, so they should do it, and we should stop discussing the matter.
Like goddammit man, the moral outrage is not there because people fail to see the world the way it is. It's there precisely _because_ people can see the way it is now and it's fucked up.
And paying it's engineers a high salary is enough of a payback to society? Did that cover the roads they ship their goods on? The international Navy that protects their supply lines from overseas factories? The education system which produced their engineers? All the other inputs they rely on and externalities they offload?
No it didn't, because once you get rich you get your own set of rules. Paying back what you owe is for the proles
Like goddammit man, the moral outrage is not there because people fail to see the world the way it is. It's there precisely _because_ people can see the way it is now and it's fucked up.
And paying it's engineers a high salary is enough of a payback to society? Did that cover the roads they ship their goods on? The international Navy that protects their supply lines from overseas factories? The education system which produced their engineers? All the other inputs they rely on and externalities they offload?
No it didn't, because once you get rich you get your own set of rules. Paying back what you owe is for the proles