First of all, the 1400x is a miscalculation, because it attributes a sum to be earned out over many years to a single year. Yes, it takes tens of thousands of

First of all, the 1400x is a miscalculation, because it attributes a sum to be earned out over many years to a single year. Yes, it takes tens of thousands of people to design, make and sell Apple's products. Tim would be the first to acknowledge that. Does this mean that each of them is equally valuable to the company and equally hard to replace? No. (Which is not a statement about their worth as _human beings_, mind you).