> I don't think Apple "creates" jobs. Can nitpick it for sure. It has billions of dollars sitting around, it can choose to open a new data center, new manufact

> I don't think Apple "creates" jobs. Can nitpick it for sure. It has billions of dollars sitting around, it can choose to open a new data center, new manufacturing plant, start a cloud offering, Uber-for-dogs, whatever. Or it can continue sitting on that money. It's not automatic. That's what people mean by "job creation". Choosing to invest the money usually involves creating new positions. Another way to look at it, is that it is location dependent. Since it is an American company, it might "hire" for a position that used to be filled in China, but the new hire is US. On the global market it "hired" someone in the US market it "created" a job.