The Sunday New York Times carried an interesting front-page article on why Apple and other companies do not produce products or provide services in the US with American workers, or at least do not hire at the levels they hire in China. It's a fascinating article with a minimum of capitalist double-speak. Read the article here.
Marxists and other socialists can have some fun with this article, reading it and debating it and making it popular. The capitalist doubble-speak in the article consists largely of obscuring the determining factor of wages in production and the tendency of the rate of profit to fall over time. There is also an implication of nationalism in the article. Still, the article states most of the facts bluntly and gives them to us straight from the horse's mouth.
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Yes, Ethnic Guy, I read this yesterday and was amazed that there was no discussion of wages or working conditions for those who get to be awakened in the middle of the night to assemble ipods. Maybe we should write to the reporters and suggest they do a Barbara Ehrenreich to find out what it is like working in factories in China.
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