1. A company may be hold such beneficial position for a while, but not forever if we allow competitions and fair market without political connection to protect this status quo by law.
2. Human being can invent things and no one buys them. We see this everyday in fail web startups. And customers vote with their money and their time to use service or product, so if an invention doesn't improve general/macro efficiency for its own customers with spent time/exhanges of money. It won't sell. And don't forget that people can choose not to use the service and product unless it is required by law. Apple/Microsoft are not in such position if I remember it correctly.
So invention as you said is improvement of efficiency. They may not improvement in their own manufacturing efficiency but they improve macro efficiency.
3. I understand the human right issue, that's why I raise restaurant business as a case. Why there are so many illegal immigrants working in restaurant business under bad conditions and people are aware of and without saying a word? Those workers also don't want to go to law enforcement to endanger themselves.
4. But to improve the human right issue in China, I don't think there is shortcut. The only way is to wait for the time that Chinese labors demand and fight for their rights. for democracy and rules of law. This takes time and unfortunately we are exploit them for business benefits.
5. As for fair taxation of such a huge profit. Don't you think it is very unfair for USA to take lion share of them and redistribute it to USA citizens ONLY. Or due to Apple's most work is done in china and let Chinese government to take majority of the profit on behalf of workers or ruling bureaucrats?
1. A company may be hold such beneficial position for a while, but not forever if we allow competitions and fair market without political connection to protect this status quo by law.
2. Human being can invent things and no one buys them. We see this everyday in fail web startups. And customers vote with their money and their time to use service or product, so if an invention doesn't improve general/macro efficiency for its own customers with spent time/exhanges of money. It won't sell. And don't forget that people can choose not to use the service and product unless it is required by law. Apple/Microsoft are not in such position if I remember it correctly.
So invention as you said is improvement of efficiency. They may not improvement in their own manufacturing efficiency but they improve macro efficiency.
3. I understand the human right issue, that's why I raise restaurant business as a case. Why there are so many illegal immigrants working in restaurant business under bad conditions and people are aware of and without saying a word? Those workers also don't want to go to law enforcement to endanger themselves.
4. But to improve the human right issue in China, I don't think there is shortcut. The only way is to wait for the time that Chinese labors demand and fight for their rights. for democracy and rules of law. This takes time and unfortunately we are exploit them for business benefits.
5. As for fair taxation of such a huge profit. Don't you think it is very unfair for USA to take lion share of them and redistribute it to USA citizens ONLY. Or due to Apple's most work is done in china and let Chinese government to take majority of the profit on behalf of workers or ruling bureaucrats?