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It's a weird metric, because 1 guy at Apple can hire a firm of 100,000 employees at FoxConn in China to do the actual work for Apple. If those employees instea
by smackfu 12y ago
It's a weird metric, because 1 guy at Apple can hire a firm of 100,000 employees at FoxConn in China to do the actual work for Apple. If those employees instead worked for Apple directly, the end result would be the same but the amount per employee would be far less.
- davidiach 12y agoAnd FoxConn can of course hire millions of other people to do the actual work for them (mine the materials needed for the products, prepare them, ship them and so on).
- sosborn 12y agoIf you include FoxConn employees do you also include FoxConn revenue from Apple?
- gutnor 12y agoIsn't that similar to the way the productivity (the economic metric) is measured though ?