Comment Then, blame someone else. (Score 1) 104
Then, you can blame the Chinese, Iranians, Indians, Vietnamese and/or Mexicans for stealing your jobs and destroying your industry.
Then, you can blame the Chinese, Iranians, Indians, Vietnamese and/or Mexicans for stealing your jobs and destroying your industry.
EXACTY.
Those Netflix engineers didn't know and weren't part of the "inside baseball" of Wall Street.
Infinite growth (in terms of material wealth; not in terms of happiness) in a finite planet does not make sense unless you are okay with the unevitable fact that some people, a lot of people, will have to pick up the tab.
"As long as Americans continue to elect politicians that worship companies and the "free market" over their own countries interests [...]"
This is capitalism. Big corporations control politics. It doesn't matter who the American vote for. Capitalism is eating away democracy. In a culture that seeks infinite growth and ever growing profits, eventually more and more people will end up picking up the tab.
Using Apple as an example is stupid. For one thing, does Motorola have a cult following?
I wonder if your post was just an excuse to boast about how great Apple is.
"I got everybody to pay up front...then I blew up their planet." "Now why didn't I think of that?" -- Post Bros. Comics