Tuesday, February 12, 2013

The New Problem, you've probably never heard of it

Tonight, during President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, change seemed like an attainable goal for the future of America.  Our troops were coming home, our economic crises were cooling down, even our rights to due process seemed less threatened.  Less.  But amid the hopeful proclamations of safer schools, comprehensive immigration reform, and a promise to combat the destructiveness of the planet's climate, there is still one dire, cataclysmic, and earth-shaking change that the president announced: the production of Macs in America by Apple company.

Does Obama not realize what he has set forth?!?!  Macintosh computers made in the U.S.A. is a disaster-nightmare come to life!!  If we start making Macs in Apple factories here in the U.S., then there's no way that the Government, or the workers and unions for that matter, will let the horrendous working conditions Mac factories fly.  The class action lawsuits and public outcries will pile up, utterly destroying the Mac factory.  Unless we plan to follow China's model of producing Apple products at the expense of the value of human labor, we cannot allow a Mac factory to proceed.  What will follow?  OTHER Apple product factories?!?  Why don't we just start making iPhones here too?!?

Those, of course, are only some of the problems.  Think of the effect that U.S. Apple factories will have on our culture!  Over the past decade, there has been nothing that has embodied the very mentality of the Apple user than our Apple-based trade relations with China.  The sense of superiority and entitlement that Apple users experience mirrors directly the common American manufacturer's superiority of and entitlement to safe working conditions.  Now what will we be able to tell Apple Fanboys about their formerly-inhumane products?  From there, nothing will stand in the way of cultural domination by iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, and iPad Minis.

I call it like I see it, and I see peril in the future.

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