They, like many companies, pretend to care about their workers. They, like many companies, don’t. They care about profit, period.
Neither do they care about the environment, gay rights, privacy, or whatever other issue they pretend to care about.
Neither do they care about the environment, gay rights, privacy, or whatever other issue they pretend to care about.
How about reframing it :
Companies can not 'care' about anything because companies are legal vehicles that do not have agency.
The individual people that make up the company obviously care about these things to varying extents. I highly doubt it's literally zero for any company >100 employees.
Although it's theoretically possible for all the 'care' to perfectly cancel each other out (e.g. half the employees for and half against something) it seems unlikely in Apple's case.
If it was legal and they could profit $300M by killing thousands of people they would do it.
Go read about the nervous systems of people failing from the solvents they use the clean the phone screens on the assembly lines. You think Tim Cook is up at night worrying about these people? He’s not.
Instead they would say “let’s use this contractor, they’re 1% cheaper” never considering that the difference is made up from decreased safety that kills people.
Society only tends to equate these two kinds of cases when action causes very direct harm.
Which is precisely my point with this topic and the unions. Finally for once we see the real ethos.
There’s room to have faith in the executives of these megacorporations, I don’t.
While what you're saying may well be true, it doesn't prevent bad influences from compromising values you think are immutable. We worship Bell Labs on this website too, but their company culture and "hacker identity" didn't prevent Room 641A from happening. This "unlikely in Apple's case" business seems so baseless when the entire industry wears indecision on it's sleeve. Even Apple cannot promise human rights to all of their customers, loathe as this site is to hear it.
I'm not aware of a single case where Apple on-the-record promised to customers anything so abstract. Can you link to one example?
Then it would seem that my original statement is correct, no?
This doesn't seem relevant to my last 2 comments.