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> Apple is made up of hundreds of thousands of employees And they can still be bad I could be fooled by your words when I was kid, unfortunately for me I'm to
by romanoderoma 6y ago
> Apple is made up of hundreds of thousands of employees
And they can still be bad
I could be fooled by your words when I was kid, unfortunately for me I'm too old to be fooled by rhetoric and propaganda.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Philip_Morris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Philip_Morris
> Their individual decisions might be better or worse for certain groups of people
And those can be criminal decisions.
More often than not, multi trillion companies act like villains, they lie, deceit, bribe, threaten, they use all the tricks in the book.
And people working there have no decisional power whatsoever, they are just clogs in the machine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_bribery_scandals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_bribery_scandals
Not rarely, their actions lead to innocent people dying
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides
> but Apple as a whole isn't really an entity that you can make a value judgement about.
Then how can you make a judgment about China or USSR or Cuba or Iraq?
There's a billion and a half people in China...
By your logic it's impossible to make a judgment, right?
- romanoderoma 6y agoOn the front page today (2020-11-24) "Apple’s head of security indicted in Santa Clara County CCW case" Coincidence? Probably not https://morganhilltimes.com/apples-head-of-security-indicted-in-santa-clara-county-ccw-case/ https://morganhilltimes.com/apples-head-of-security-indicted...