It wasn't an issue when the social change was about slavery, or money laundering, or privacy, or monopoly, or copyright, or tax, or employment, or environment,

It wasn't an issue when the social change was about slavery, or money laundering, or privacy, or monopoly, or copyright, or tax, or employment, or environment, or immigration, or healthcare, or housing, or zoning, or transport, or energy, or manufacturing, or mining, or fiscal policy, or monetary policy, or elections, or trade, or education, or subsidies? Sorry, yes, I do think it's naive to think a business - particularly a trillion dollar omninational - can operate in ignorance of the laws and politics that their staff experience. A business is a construct of between some and a lot of individuals, not an entry in the NASDAQ. >What gives Apple more of a right to counter what the duly elected representatives of a state government have enacted, than the voters of that state themselves? It's a false premise, since there is no additional right, but the employees are voters.