[Wmshyrga]

Apple may be a U.S. corporation in name only. Most of its production and parts happen elsewhere. Its R&D teams are all over, though sure, the big heads are in Bay Area (in one of the most regulated states, no less!) What Apple does best on its own is marketing the heck out of its products. A lot of that work happens in the U.S. still. On the ownership side of things, Apple (like a lot of other U.S. corporates) likely keeps most of its profits overseas and does not repatriate them. Apple's bond and shareholders may be primarily Americans but nothing stops Apple from listing its shares and moving its share capital to some other stock exchange.

So I'm not sure I even buy the argument on its face value that Apple is some special American corporation or that it operates in a vacuum all its own. It operates in a worldwide marketplace and has wily lawyers finding ways to gain the system... does not mean we get rid of the system, it means we make it stronger.


Good ol' days of free market capitalism sounds like Dickensian London: a steam pile of ****.