Don’t blame the system. Blame individuals with the power. When Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 he cancelled the only charity the company ever had, for “cash flow” reasons. Jobs was never an engineer or a programmer. The developments Apple made were not the ones which constructed the foundation for computing and networking or for genuine heavy-duty applications which drive the world of commerce, manufacturing, etc. Yet their worshipers seem to think that Steve Jobs is the real, creative genius behind computing and that the rest of the world of computing just tries to copy him. He did not invent GUIs, or multi-touch, or smart phones or even mp3 players. Apple was always about control, and control making sure no one else could make a mac. The irony is that Microsoft, who gets the big-evil label, made operating systems which were licensed to thousands of companies, from very large to mom and pops and to home builders (like me).

Microsoft software, from the start had provisions for handicapped users and MS not only donated to charities, they even had teams which went to world disaster zones with computers to aid in organizing events. When Apple was asked for help with Haiti a couple of years ago they said no and MS was already on the job, at first tremor. For that matter, Jobs never even stood up for anyone or any cause (the gay support in the workplace issue had already been addressed by supposedly “evil” MS - though I do have my issues with Gates, some of them big time).

So many firms moved their manufacturing operations to China. I worked for one in the 90s which made heavy equipment, and had the Chinese make them. WalMart was the major driver in this (remember when their slogan included “made in the USA” for products they sold? But make no mistake, this was never about making a profit, just about never enough profit and about control - no sharing with the people who made it possible.

And despite truly massive profits from their US manufacturing plants, Apple (others too) still moved it all to China. Must not have been enough “cash flow” again for Jobs. So he made sure that Apple’s now former workers in the US lost their own cash flow, and, I don’t suppose those Chinese workers have much cash flow either.

It’s just workers?

American capitalism is focused upon perpetual growth at any cost.  If we
complain that these corporations are profiting at the expense of American
workers we receive the same sermon about how they are working for the
benefit of investors.  Corporations are people!  Corporate profits fund the
retirement accounts of Americans!  I am incredibly fortunate to have a job, but
I, like almost everyone I know under 40, views retirement as a pipe dream. 
Pensions?  401K?  Hah!  At least I can count on Social Security, er, oh, probably
not…  I am more likely to be killed by an asteroid than ever own a share of
Apple.  Corporations are enriching their investors, but that pool of people does
not reflect the American majority.
Anyone with a 99% button on their lapel who worships at the altar of Steve Jobs
is luxuriating in hypocrisy.  Why do conservatives accuse liberals of being
delusional, hypocritical Champagne socialists?  Because most of them are.  The
hypocrisy cuts both ways, but as long as the paradigm is upheld and both sides
can finger point to uphold the devastating status quo, America will continue to
sink.  Is a “family values” conservative who cheats on his wife any worse than a
self-proclaimed liberal human rights advocate-democrat who tweets his
regurgitated MSNBC talking points on his iPhone that was made using slave
labor?  No.
A Chinese worker making Apple products will earn $22 per week for 60 hours
of work.  I wonder how long it will take for that to be considered a normal wage
for an American.

Here is one of the most profoundly disturbing yet thought-provoking stories about the whole issue of Apple’s system. Listen, be disturbed…....

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/454/mr-daisey-and-the-apple-factory

The fault is not any one company, but the system by which they operate. So long as profit is important and workers are not, it will persist until the planet finally dies of exhaustion, having been sucked dry and polluted and bombed into oblivion. The universe will not care one whit.
  Only people care—but not enough yet.

Where the OWS idiots who were holding Steve Jobs quotes on their cardboard squares?