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> it put too many legal obstacles regarding ecology, The biggest problem isn't ecology. It is labor regulation. One example: Apple handled all its manufacturi
by diego_moita 1y ago
> it put too many legal obstacles regarding ecology,
The biggest problem isn't ecology. It is labor regulation.
One example: Apple handled all its manufacturing to FoxCon because workers committing suicide in their factories is a FoxCon's problem hidden in Shenzhen, it isn't Apple's problem.
Another example: you can't have German companies starting huge projects because in Germany you just can't do the massive firings that Microsoft, Meta and AWS do when these projects fail.
And the list goes on to infrastructure and land rights. Building a pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, passing through farm land? Even Republicans would get scared of that.
The truth is that building physical stuff is very hard on the people that do it and sometimes even dangerous.
- tzs 1y ago> One example: Apple handled all its manufacturing to FoxCon because workers committing suicide in their factories is a FoxCon's problem hidden in Shenzhen, it isn't Apple's problem. That story was greatly exaggerated. First, the suicide rates were comparable to the rates for workers in the US. The absolute number was large because FoxConn factory there was very large, with up to 300k employees. Second, the suicides did not happen at work. They happened during time off, just like most US employee suicides. Most of the workers did live in housing units owned by FoxConn, which probably led to some confusion.
- diego_moita 1y ago> That story was greatly exaggerated. Maybe. But facts don't matter in marketing and politics, what matters is what narratives stick. Example: when you count number of deaths only, terrorism and crime kill a tiny fraction of people than junk food does with heart diseases. But guess which one makes the news.