"...G.M. in its heyday had a lot of market power. Nonetheless, the - TopicsExpress



          

"...G.M. in its heyday had a lot of market power. Nonetheless, the company’s value came largely from its productive capacity: it owned hundreds of factories and employed around 1 percent of the total nonfarm work force. "Apple, by contrast, seems barely tethered to the material world. Depending on the vagaries of its stock price, it’s either the highest-valued or the second-highest-valued company in America, but it employs less than 0.05 percent of our workers. To some extent, that’s because it has outsourced almost all its production overseas. But the truth is that the Chinese aren’t making that much money from Apple sales either. To a large extent, the price you pay for an iWhatever is disconnected from the cost of producing the gadget. Apple simply charges what the traffic will bear, and given the strength of its market position, the traffic will bear a lot." The US became a superpower during the final stages of the Industrial Revolution. Then The Deified Reagan declared the industrial economy dead and the dawning of the service economy. Welcome to the Bullshit Revolution.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 21:12:33 +0000

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