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Apple's Tim Cook on Apple's Positive Involvement in the World
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Posted on 10/19/2015 11:00:09 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Tim Cook: I think that ... the business has the responsibility ... of within the communities that they operate ... to be ... a ... great service ... and then we're global company and so I think we have a responsibility to be of great global service ... and so it as I look it that when we don't ... we don't get into ... the whole ... set of issues that we ... don't bring and expertise or ... for a i am ... or have had some knowledge of or write whoa the things that that we're focused on our the environment which we feel like we have a tremendous expertise ... and we have a tremendous responsibility ... we make a lot of products' what we are ... I we use a lot of the energy we've we've now converted all of our US operations to renewable energy were very proud about ... we are ... using eighty seven percent renewable energy around the world and were working on our supply chain and we're making significant progress with our supply chain ... such that in a these are things ... that ... we should feel and do a sense of responsibility ... and I think we should leave here and on ... human rights is another one ...
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
It's more like Apple wants a dominant role in politcally correct discussion.
Tim Cook needs to practice what he preaches but since he is a Liberal he doesn’t.
“we have a tremendous responsibility “......to hire Children to make our Apple products. =)
You may want to be aware of this one...
Gibberish. More of the same in the supposed transcript at WSJ. If this guy was in my two-man fighting hole I’d use him for cover from incoming fire.
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I did not see anything like that in what Cook said. Listen to it again.
The employees in Apple's supply chain run from 18 to 32 years old, for the most part. . . if children are found working, Apple's contract requires the employer to PAY for their education through age 25. That is quite an incentive to NOT hire underage workers.
Reminds me of when Joe Pesci is talking to the kid serving them drinks at the card game.
“renewable energy”.
“human rights”
Those are two very politically correct concerns.
They are all right there in the transcripts.
Not to mention all the other politically correct things that cook pursues beyond this interview.
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist”
To their corporate policy credit, they do conduct audits. But that has not stopped the practice completely.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jan/25/apple-child-labour-supply
That said, Nike has no comment.
>>“renewable energy”.
>>“human rights”
>>Those are two very politically correct concerns.
I’m not defending Cook because I know what a hypocrite he is (i.e. a liberal capitalist pursuing the “socialism for thee, lots of money for me” agenda).
But, renewable energy and human rights should be a concern for all. The problem with those two noble goals is how they are used. Renewable energy should be an ADDITION to an energy portfolio, not a mandatory replacement for cheap and abundant hydrocarbon power. Likewise, human rights ceases to be human rights when it is used to steal from one people (steal their money, rights, land, national sovereignty, etc) to give to another people.
In the long run nuclear power will be the energy source of choice. There’s just so much energy locked in nuclei of atoms either smaller than helium or heavier than iron which are so readily available. But, perhaps, not U235. . .The example of the hydrogen bomb shows that fusion power is possible; it’s just a matter of time (a century at most, presumably) till fusion power is economical. It seems that there is no difficulty bridging the gap from now to then with natural gas.And when I say, “no difficulty,” I include environmental concerns. The extraction and combustion of coal and hydrocarbons by mankind in the past couple of centuries has produced an increase in the small concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. This has set the clock of carbon sequestration in limestone back two million years, saving life on earth from eventual carbon dioxide starvation. Should We Celebrate Carbon Dioxide?
" The report follows a series of worker suicides over working conditions at Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that assembles must-have products such as the iPad and iPhone, and lethal explosions at other plants."
Those suicides occurred in 2010 and involved a suicide rate that was far less than the overall suicide rate for similar age cohorts in the Chinese population in general, less than 1 per 100,000, and did not involve even ONE Apple assembly line worker. They were at a plant making Microsoft Xbox, Sony Playstations, HP Computers and Nokia cellular phones. That is the level of accuracy of that report.
The audit referred to went back over SEVEN YEARS of Apple's supply chain and found only 70 incidents among 1.7 million workers involving a total of 106 children under the age of 16, ALL of which had used false IDs to get themselves hired. It was NOT an institutional effort by Apple or the companies contracted to do so. The one instance where it was, Apple pulled an over $2 billion contract and awarded it to the next lower bidder! It can be very expensive for a contract company to thwart the contract provisions about child labor with Apple.
You are too quick to come to Apple’s defense for any perceived slight.
My intent was to show that the report indicated only 100 or so under aged workers found during their audits. If I were going to condemn them, then I wouldn’t have knocked them with a sarc like I did Nike, would I?
It's not a "perceived slight" but a determined campaign to smear Apple for an agenda for which they are not responsible and have actually done far more than any other company to relieve, yet get more undeserved blame in the mainstream press like the article you linked. If I don't respond with the truth, many people accept the post as presented as the truth rather than the lying propaganda it actually was.
For example the general public is certain Apple deliberately employs underage workers and the suicides occurred at an Apple assembly plant and the working conditions were horrid. They didn't and they weren't. It was all hype which Apple had nothing to do with, but the headline writers put Apple in the headline because it drew more clicks and eyes, even though Apple and Apple products were not even peripherally involved in the suicides. . . or that the "kids" who got hired had lied on their applications for employment and used false or stolen IDs to get the jobs mattered and that it was against Apple policy. The public believes these things because China Labor Watch, a leftist organization, wants it that way and always uses Apple as their poster child and fakes videos using non-Apple factories, non-Apple shills in their quotes, and otherwise is a fraud in their propaganda.
Oh, by-the-way, I did see your sarcasm, but many would miss it. . . I knew you knew. It's just that for some, they need it explained.
My comment was not a “campaign” nor should you have taken it as such if you were not predisposed to be in-the-tank Apple in every case. I explained that to you and you still persist. I’ll just avoid your threads in future. They make no unbiased point for me.
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