ahhh ... if only the 'real world' worked that way. What US regulations forcing US corporations to pay high wage rates for unskilled labor ( minimum / prevailing wage ), forcing US corporations to spend millions to make sure that only 0,01% of pollutants enter US rivers and air etc. also do is provide a strong incentive for US corporations to shut down US operations and replace them with offshore facilities where unskilled labor rates are pocket change, where compliance costs for pollutants is near zero, and where child labor is tolerated. Just ask the former California workers that used to assemble Apple computers ... versus Apple now subcontracting child labor to assemble Apple computers in Asia ... and 'we' are indeed 'letting' Apple do this !
(snip)"Apple (AAPL) has disclosed that child labor was used in three supplier factories last year to build iPhones, iPods and Macintosh computers. The new report, designed to highlight its strong workplace standards, comes amid greater scrutiny of the working conditions at Apple's suppliers, particularly in Asia. Last year, a worker at Apple's massive Taiwanese supplier Foxconn jumped from his high-rise apartment after being beaten by guards during an investigation into a stolen iPhone prototype. And recently, at another Foxconn factory, this one in China, a Reuters employee was beaten by guards after photographing the facility.
Apple's report, entitled Supplier Responsibility, found 17 "core violations," including using underage labor and falsifying records(snip)
See full article from DailyFinance:
http://srph.it/dZNPfP
In the final analysis, what strict US regulations have in fact done is permanently eliminate US jobs while at the same time creating more total pollution, and more child labor, than if the stricter US regulations had never been enacted. Of course, this all happens on the opposite side of the world - and receives next to zero attention from mainstream US media ... so very few Americans are even aware it's occurring on the scale that it is.
By inference, your position would be to require Apple to employ US workers at prevailing wage rates, and to require Apple to spend whatever was necessary to comply with US environmental regulations re the production of circuit boards etc. in the USA. As a result, the probable cost of a new IPad would have to be at least $2,000 in order to absorb the additional costs. As a consequence, sales of IPads would drop to 1/3rd of current levels ... further resulting in 2/3rds of Apple's alternate reality US assembly workers receiving pink slips. And at that point, an alternate reality Chinese built product with a selling price that is 1/3rd of Apple's IPad is able to dominate market share and operating system standards ... relegating Apple as a small volume supplier to the 'rich' ... further resulting in Apple eliminating US support staff in light of the much smaller sales volume. Also, because of reduced sales volume, the alternate universe Apple could no longer afford to finance R&D to develop the next generation of 'superior' product offerings ... eventually resulting in Apple going bankrupt thus eliminating ALL US jobs !
You can't 'have your cake and eat it too'.
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