Monday, September 4, 2017

A Tale Of Two Janitors

One worked for Eastman Kodak, the other is a contract employee over at Apple:

“Think about the contrast between George Eastman, who pioneered fundamental innovations in photography, and Steve Jobs,” Mr. Summers wrote in 2014. “While Eastman’s innovations and their dissemination through the Eastman Kodak Co. provided a foundation for a prosperous middle class in Rochester for generations, no comparable impact has been created by Jobs’s innovations” at Apple.

You can read the rest @
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/upshot/to-understand-rising-inequality-consider-the-janitors-at-two-top-companies-then-and-now.html

The corporation created by Steve Jobs is a temple to selfishness. And his successors at Apple, Facebook, and Google have vastly expanded his legacy. Thanks to them (and others, of course) the US middle class is dead.

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