How? There are no real fast ways to get a green card in the US, outside of the EB2 green card program.
I gave you the primary reason, you just don't like it. Immigration is the solution, you just don't like that as the answer. Start reading Milton Friedman if you really want to understand. I don't have months to try and teach you economics theory and would do a worse job than Milton.
There are no tax breaks for H1B workers, they actually have to pay Social Security tax even though workers might not stay in the US and receive any benefits from SocSec later in their life. H1B also does not allow employers to work around labor rules.
Good grief, at least _try_ to run a web search before making such easy to disprove claims. Look up the OPT program. I'm not going to provide citations because you lazy.
Your anecdote is not convincing. I have never had any problems with iTunes on a PC, but if I did I would chalk it up to everything on a PC being bad. The cruft and bloat of Windows Registry is a problem with performance no matter which application we discuss. iTunes is not an exception to that rule, and can not fix the bloat that is Windows. I reload Windows about once a year, and itunes gets reloaded on the new OS. Assuming I remember my login, it picks up right where it left off pretty much. I guess it could be that I don't have thousands of albums, I have hundreds?
I hope you don't claim to have any knowledge or perspective on history then. People who attempted to harm slave owners by damaging property/theft resulted in slaves being worked harder. In addition to having to fix the damage or generate more revenue, there was a moral restitution aspect. Often in publicized killings and beatings of slaves, and more so if the person who committed the crime was caught acting on behalf of.
Slaves were freed by, imagine this.. freeing slaves.
I'm not a fanboi by any means. I have however used iTunes for music for at least 10 years and don't have any complaints. I buy an album, it downloads, I play music. I don't see a better Music platform out there for things like Albums and Songs, so I don't get the gripes. I ignore whining rants too, so think twice before providing your personal anecdotes.
Is Pandora better for Radio? Probably, maybe? I don't know, I listen to a radio for radio. Well actually I also occasionally use the iHeart app for radio, but mostly radio for radio. Is NetFlix or Xfinity better for videos? Probably, maybe, I watch movies on my TV or in a Theater. Is some free Tor sharing better? "free" may harm large studios who screw over musicians, but it also harms the musicians harmed by those same studios. Robbing a slave owner never freed any slaves.
People who's opinion translates to dollars have said that iTunes is something other than awful for 13 years. I'm one of them people.
I have no idea why people insist on forgetting that part. Lets try an analogy. I invent a cypher and print a code on a paper. The court can grant a warrant to get the paper, but that does not mean they can grant a warrant to get the cypher key from my head. The 4th and 5th amendment are very clear on that. Even though our founding fathers are claimed to have never thought about things, they actually knew damn well about encryption and the need for personal secrecy. What if my encrypted paper contained plans to overthrow the tyrannical King. What if my paper was a personal confession for deeds the Church would frown on, but deeds that are not illegal (like Lust).
People always try to press the system for more, and again this is something the founders KNEW. This is why we have a Constitution which states "reasonable search and seizure", leaving no room to think it's everything someone can possibly conceive of.
And your statement is related to the requirement of "Natural Born Citizen" how exactly? Oh, it's not the same thing so it's not related. You are still a liar, and intentionally deceptive. Instead of attempting more deception and lies, how about trying some honesty.
Cruz is not anything like McCain, your claim is completely false and lacks any semblance of truth. If you are repeating because of ignorance you are just as morally corrupt as a person repeating this to manipulate.
McCain was born on a US Military base, which is sovereign US territory and established in the definition of "Natural born". Cruz was born in a Canadian Hospital in CANADA, he was not born on US territory. His claim to being "natural born" is that his parents were citizens, which goes against the definition of "Natural born". In fact Cruz gave up his dual citizenship not very long before running for President.
Here is a very in depth analysis of Cruz, including the citizenship argument. Be careful, there are actually facts in this video.
H1Bs even if implemented "correctly" are bad for the nation. If that person is so exceptional, the company can pay for them to immigrate. You know, like we did for the majority of human history.
Your thesis works if, and only if, there is a single global economy with the same rules for all workers. The whole "but we are global" argument falls flat on it's face because that scenario does not, and will not ever, exist. It's always about higher profits at the expense of the worker, always. If China required unemployment insurance, health insurance, retirement plans, caps on hours a person was allowed to work and/or forced to work, and all of the safety and regulation training companies are required to provide in the US, do you think labor would still be pennies on the dollar in exchange? H1B workers receive huge tax breaks, and allow companies to bypass legal work restrictions. You know, like that one company who literally had slaves escape last year who were here on H1B visas? (One of how many obvious violations, and how many under the table threats.. yeah)
Look, if Politicians and Uber wealthy people really had _your_ interests in mind they would stop lining their own pockets and start lining yours. They don't, you are delusional if you believe they are on your side and looking out for you, the end.
If a healthy 18 adult plays football scoring 140 points against an 8 year old autistic child who scored 0, did they "win" the game? Winning requires a competition, and I'll add a somewhat "fair" competition. You know, that thing that is completely absent in the Democratic primary system right? I think you mean something other than "winning", maybe check out a dictionary.
The super delegates problem is a side effect of the same thing that has Clinton leading, which is that insiders chose their candidate years ago. Hillary is leading because the media, owned by that same insider group, plays her constant lip service and has for well over a year leading up to this election. Other owned politicians are similarly playing her lip service. There is little to no talk about the corruption in her public service, no talk about how she openly panders and lies to do so, and no talk about her political past as the first lady which would harm her campaign.
Early on, she won how many tie breakers by coin toss exactly? Winning because of votes my ass! She is winning because voters were given a horrible choice and even when they pick the "evil socialist" option they were revoked by this system you claim she is "winning".
Over 50% of the public thinks the system is rigged, the rest are either blind or have not looked into it. There is that.01% or so who know it's rigged and fight tooth and nail to keep it that way. They are happy to pay turds to claim "it's fair" despite how easy it is to prove that it's anything but "fair".
If I put a PC in a 4x24x22 frame, or a 8x12x12 frame, or a 2x2x2 frame, it's still a PC. Why? The easy but hard to fathom might be that the instruction set the chip uses, etc.. is all called PC. Probably more importantly, it's not a usable PC because of the form factor. It's usable because of the peripheral devices we use to access it. I'm still connecting an external FULL sized keyboard, some type of tracking device (mouse), and at least one reasonable sized (24") Monitor to be able to use the PC.
The PC being dead, as TFA claimed and you tried to back, is absolutely not the same thing as "We have a new form factor for a chassis".
Yeah yeah, the PC is dead we know. I have heard this same thing repeated countless times over the last couple decades. In order to make such a claim you have to also claim that our thin client ability has magically evolved so that we can all work on a 4" screen. Oh wait, that has not happened. So people are once again claiming "MAGIC IS REAL" and "REALITY IS FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN'T FANTASIZE LIKE WE DO!".
Could you claim "hey, lots of people work with smaller screens?" Sure. Many people can only afford to browse the internet on a phone too, but given the option would they want to have a nice big screen? Immediate response? Local processing power? Yup, they sure would. Your dichotomy is false, time to go back to the liar's drawing board.
Also, give it a rest already! IoT is not a "thing", so stop making it out to be one. We don't want your chips implanted in our hands, and the ability to have everything we do controlled and tracked with biometrics. We like having cash so that people can't track all of our purchases and use that data as a weapon against us. Sorry, but your psychologically targeted ad is not a benefit to me or society, it's a benefit to you and a weapon against myself and society.
Strangely, this whole subject ignores the fact that our datacenters are packed to the brim with PCs. Not high end graphics PCs, but the same processor and chipsets runs the majority of businesses today AND personal computers. But the PC is dead? OMG! RIP SATA and SAS, we really miss you USB and PCI, we'll never be the same without you DDR 1+. Lot the sobbing ensue! No really, they said it was DEAD!
You people that can't handle reality really get on my nerves sometimes.
How many people realize that our education system has gone from the best in the world 100 years ago to 3rd rate today. Look at a test per grade in the 1900s and today, and see how "great" the takeover has been. Oh sure, it was gradual and planned to be gradual. Departments started pushing toward centralized testing and industrial education back in the 30s. Most schools were using Prussian education by the early 40s and Classical education was on the way out. The nail in the coffin however is when the Feds took over the schools completely. How many people realize that the Department of Education was founded in 1979? At which point schools have degraded immeasurably. Arts are mostly gone, which includes music. PhysEd is mostly gone, debate is mostly gone. English has become "best guess at intended" instead of grammatically correct, Math has gone from conceptual to task based half assed rote learning. Science has similarly become doing what passes a measure, not what teaches a kid. All of it has become "WHAT PASSES THE STANDARDIZED TEST!", and not remotely related to making intelligent people.
Making yet another standardized test process to avoid actually teaching does not fix the problems with education. It will simply mean that the few people left who try to find facts will also be left in the cold.
Oh sure, there are parents out there trying their damn best to fill in the gaps and school on their own despite paying taxes. We are also starting to see parents chastised for trying to teach anything that the Government did not approve the school to teach. Systems are out there already preventing parents from seeing what kids learn, all licensed to the few corporations who own Common Core of course.
Most teachers a few decades ago worked to better society. Today I talk to more teachers who work for a paycheck than who want a better society. Government audits have educators on very short leashes, and constant fear is not a good motivator. I'd say the world is going to hell, but I'm not quite convinced we are not already in hell.
Want to fix it? Okay, fire the Feds and State and hire educators who will revert our system to a Classical system of education. Change is scary, but what we have today was a change from a system that worked for a couple thousand years. Someone else can have the soap box now..
You want to protect people from their own behavior by using force and other people's money, and you claim someone else is trying to feel superior? Welcome to Orwellian speak..
I would be willing to bet that Woz is talking about his taxes before filing, not what he is actually paying. I'm going to guess that you would not wager against me.
I interviewed at Google and was appalled at their system. I was told that for my 3rd and fourth interview I needed to go watch about 20 hours of Youtube Videos and study some cruft they wanted me to study. Not related to my experience or even the job in general. I was also told that I would be expected to work 60 hours a week, and should enjoy dinners on campus. In other words, I could be treated just like a H1B worker! WOW!
Google found my resume and called me, I never applied for a job. I heard from HR people inside Google that it's not always that way, and even know someone that took a manager job there. Amazingly, everyone I know from the technical side that interviewed there reported the same scenario I did.
Woz should be appalled by Apple's behavior why? Does he not take advantage of every possible loophole for himself? Does Google, Microsoft, GE, Texas Instruments, Yale University, and every other business out there not do the same? Apple is not special in that regard, and certainly not the source of the problem. Seems to me that Woz is being spiteful and vindictive.
Ending the H1B program to solve this problem would be a very stupid thing to do.
Ending the H1B program won't solve this problem because there is no magic bullet. Doing nothing sure as hell won't change the direction so we keep driving down. Ending the H1B program is just one of many steps in a long walk.
The H1B program is there for a lot more than hiring tech workers, so it would be a terrible first step! We are not going to solve a culture issue by changing immigration laws.
We all know that Tech is not the only market damaged by indentured servitude, so why do you claim that it's a bad thing to remove? We have 40 years of this bad policy which was denounced by people like Milton Friedman. He won a Nobel Prize for analysis showing how horrible for the citizens of the US our H1B program and lack of border protection was. Turns out we have proof he was right, so your claim of "terrible" is both empty and treasonous.
Much better to look at the issue of why so many companies do not appreciate experience, and why people who are older expect to get paid more, just because they are older.
Companies are not the problem. How about looking at why regulations and laws have been passed which require businesses to screw over employees in favor of overseas "cheap" labor? How about law changes which give foreign entities power over US businesses and interests? Law changes allowing massive land grabs by foreign powers? Hand waving and yelling "look over there!" won't do anything to fix our problems.
The next step for people like you is to claim how anyone who disagrees with open borders and H1B free-for-all policies are bigots and mean, we don't care about anyone or anything. Which is easy to spot ad hominem. The US taking care of the US first is as patriotic as you can get. Demanding that the US Government neglect it's own citizens to take care of Mexico, or China, or Taiwan, or England, or anywhere else is treasonous.
No, it's unfortunately not. The versions of the book I have are pay for books, the better being the linguistic and historical translations. The Cambridge Texts version is very good, but you should also have some history books handy to reference.
Sure, but it will have to be the Cliff notes version. The story is out of Plato's "The Republic" and pretty early in the defining of a Republic. I'd recommend you buy and read the linguistic translation of the book instead of the various philosophical interpretations of fragments.
The story of the Artisan is Socrates proposing that the Republic must protect against an artisan making huge sum of money for a single project. Not only does that act dissuade further work from the person, but even worse, the person is well equipped to meddle into other people's affairs. That latter part is a huge issue with modern Governments and the lack of any limitation, made worse by the lack of moral education.
Your summary does not come close to what Woz said. What he said was that Company and Personal taxes should be the same rate or favor personal tax, which I vehemently disagree with. I have yet to read a good economic argument as to why a company should pay the same rate, or a higher rate than people. People are subject to the Socrates's story of the Artisan, a company is not.
Apple is paying what the current system says is required. I agree that it's not a fair system, because their percentage is much less than a small business. The tax code is about 80,000 pages of unfairness. It should be a few pages for business tax, and less than a page for personal tax.
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How? There are no real fast ways to get a green card in the US, outside of the EB2 green card program.
I gave you the primary reason, you just don't like it. Immigration is the solution, you just don't like that as the answer. Start reading Milton Friedman if you really want to understand. I don't have months to try and teach you economics theory and would do a worse job than Milton.
There are no tax breaks for H1B workers, they actually have to pay Social Security tax even though workers might not stay in the US and receive any benefits from SocSec later in their life. H1B also does not allow employers to work around labor rules.
Good grief, at least _try_ to run a web search before making such easy to disprove claims. Look up the OPT program. I'm not going to provide citations because you lazy.
Oh, so if I redefine "apple" to be "banana" I can claim "banana" despite it being an apple. Great logical win!
Your anecdote is not convincing. I have never had any problems with iTunes on a PC, but if I did I would chalk it up to everything on a PC being bad. The cruft and bloat of Windows Registry is a problem with performance no matter which application we discuss. iTunes is not an exception to that rule, and can not fix the bloat that is Windows. I reload Windows about once a year, and itunes gets reloaded on the new OS. Assuming I remember my login, it picks up right where it left off pretty much. I guess it could be that I don't have thousands of albums, I have hundreds?
I hope you don't claim to have any knowledge or perspective on history then. People who attempted to harm slave owners by damaging property/theft resulted in slaves being worked harder. In addition to having to fix the damage or generate more revenue, there was a moral restitution aspect. Often in publicized killings and beatings of slaves, and more so if the person who committed the crime was caught acting on behalf of.
Slaves were freed by, imagine this.. freeing slaves.
I'm not a fanboi by any means. I have however used iTunes for music for at least 10 years and don't have any complaints. I buy an album, it downloads, I play music. I don't see a better Music platform out there for things like Albums and Songs, so I don't get the gripes. I ignore whining rants too, so think twice before providing your personal anecdotes.
Is Pandora better for Radio? Probably, maybe? I don't know, I listen to a radio for radio. Well actually I also occasionally use the iHeart app for radio, but mostly radio for radio. Is NetFlix or Xfinity better for videos? Probably, maybe, I watch movies on my TV or in a Theater. Is some free Tor sharing better? "free" may harm large studios who screw over musicians, but it also harms the musicians harmed by those same studios. Robbing a slave owner never freed any slaves.
People who's opinion translates to dollars have said that iTunes is something other than awful for 13 years. I'm one of them people.
I have no idea why people insist on forgetting that part. Lets try an analogy. I invent a cypher and print a code on a paper. The court can grant a warrant to get the paper, but that does not mean they can grant a warrant to get the cypher key from my head. The 4th and 5th amendment are very clear on that. Even though our founding fathers are claimed to have never thought about things, they actually knew damn well about encryption and the need for personal secrecy. What if my encrypted paper contained plans to overthrow the tyrannical King. What if my paper was a personal confession for deeds the Church would frown on, but deeds that are not illegal (like Lust).
People always try to press the system for more, and again this is something the founders KNEW. This is why we have a Constitution which states "reasonable search and seizure", leaving no room to think it's everything someone can possibly conceive of.
And your statement is related to the requirement of "Natural Born Citizen" how exactly? Oh, it's not the same thing so it's not related. You are still a liar, and intentionally deceptive. Instead of attempting more deception and lies, how about trying some honesty.
Cruz is not anything like McCain, your claim is completely false and lacks any semblance of truth. If you are repeating because of ignorance you are just as morally corrupt as a person repeating this to manipulate.
McCain was born on a US Military base, which is sovereign US territory and established in the definition of "Natural born". Cruz was born in a Canadian Hospital in CANADA, he was not born on US territory. His claim to being "natural born" is that his parents were citizens, which goes against the definition of "Natural born". In fact Cruz gave up his dual citizenship not very long before running for President.
Here is a very in depth analysis of Cruz, including the citizenship argument. Be careful, there are actually facts in this video.
Is may analogy incorrect somehow?
H1Bs even if implemented "correctly" are bad for the nation. If that person is so exceptional, the company can pay for them to immigrate. You know, like we did for the majority of human history.
Your thesis works if, and only if, there is a single global economy with the same rules for all workers. The whole "but we are global" argument falls flat on it's face because that scenario does not, and will not ever, exist. It's always about higher profits at the expense of the worker, always. If China required unemployment insurance, health insurance, retirement plans, caps on hours a person was allowed to work and/or forced to work, and all of the safety and regulation training companies are required to provide in the US, do you think labor would still be pennies on the dollar in exchange? H1B workers receive huge tax breaks, and allow companies to bypass legal work restrictions. You know, like that one company who literally had slaves escape last year who were here on H1B visas? (One of how many obvious violations, and how many under the table threats.. yeah)
Look, if Politicians and Uber wealthy people really had _your_ interests in mind they would stop lining their own pockets and start lining yours. They don't, you are delusional if you believe they are on your side and looking out for you, the end.
If a healthy 18 adult plays football scoring 140 points against an 8 year old autistic child who scored 0, did they "win" the game? Winning requires a competition, and I'll add a somewhat "fair" competition. You know, that thing that is completely absent in the Democratic primary system right? I think you mean something other than "winning", maybe check out a dictionary.
The super delegates problem is a side effect of the same thing that has Clinton leading, which is that insiders chose their candidate years ago. Hillary is leading because the media, owned by that same insider group, plays her constant lip service and has for well over a year leading up to this election. Other owned politicians are similarly playing her lip service. There is little to no talk about the corruption in her public service, no talk about how she openly panders and lies to do so, and no talk about her political past as the first lady which would harm her campaign.
Early on, she won how many tie breakers by coin toss exactly? Winning because of votes my ass! She is winning because voters were given a horrible choice and even when they pick the "evil socialist" option they were revoked by this system you claim she is "winning".
Over 50% of the public thinks the system is rigged, the rest are either blind or have not looked into it. There is that .01% or so who know it's rigged and fight tooth and nail to keep it that way. They are happy to pay turds to claim "it's fair" despite how easy it is to prove that it's anything but "fair".
If I put a PC in a 4x24x22 frame, or a 8x12x12 frame, or a 2x2x2 frame, it's still a PC. Why? The easy but hard to fathom might be that the instruction set the chip uses, etc.. is all called PC. Probably more importantly, it's not a usable PC because of the form factor. It's usable because of the peripheral devices we use to access it. I'm still connecting an external FULL sized keyboard, some type of tracking device (mouse), and at least one reasonable sized (24") Monitor to be able to use the PC.
The PC being dead, as TFA claimed and you tried to back, is absolutely not the same thing as "We have a new form factor for a chassis".
Yeah yeah, the PC is dead we know. I have heard this same thing repeated countless times over the last couple decades. In order to make such a claim you have to also claim that our thin client ability has magically evolved so that we can all work on a 4" screen. Oh wait, that has not happened. So people are once again claiming "MAGIC IS REAL" and "REALITY IS FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN'T FANTASIZE LIKE WE DO!".
Could you claim "hey, lots of people work with smaller screens?" Sure. Many people can only afford to browse the internet on a phone too, but given the option would they want to have a nice big screen? Immediate response? Local processing power? Yup, they sure would. Your dichotomy is false, time to go back to the liar's drawing board.
Also, give it a rest already! IoT is not a "thing", so stop making it out to be one. We don't want your chips implanted in our hands, and the ability to have everything we do controlled and tracked with biometrics. We like having cash so that people can't track all of our purchases and use that data as a weapon against us. Sorry, but your psychologically targeted ad is not a benefit to me or society, it's a benefit to you and a weapon against myself and society.
Strangely, this whole subject ignores the fact that our datacenters are packed to the brim with PCs. Not high end graphics PCs, but the same processor and chipsets runs the majority of businesses today AND personal computers. But the PC is dead? OMG! RIP SATA and SAS, we really miss you USB and PCI, we'll never be the same without you DDR 1+. Lot the sobbing ensue! No really, they said it was DEAD!
You people that can't handle reality really get on my nerves sometimes.
How many people realize that our education system has gone from the best in the world 100 years ago to 3rd rate today. Look at a test per grade in the 1900s and today, and see how "great" the takeover has been. Oh sure, it was gradual and planned to be gradual. Departments started pushing toward centralized testing and industrial education back in the 30s. Most schools were using Prussian education by the early 40s and Classical education was on the way out. The nail in the coffin however is when the Feds took over the schools completely. How many people realize that the Department of Education was founded in 1979? At which point schools have degraded immeasurably. Arts are mostly gone, which includes music. PhysEd is mostly gone, debate is mostly gone. English has become "best guess at intended" instead of grammatically correct, Math has gone from conceptual to task based half assed rote learning. Science has similarly become doing what passes a measure, not what teaches a kid. All of it has become "WHAT PASSES THE STANDARDIZED TEST!", and not remotely related to making intelligent people.
Making yet another standardized test process to avoid actually teaching does not fix the problems with education. It will simply mean that the few people left who try to find facts will also be left in the cold.
Oh sure, there are parents out there trying their damn best to fill in the gaps and school on their own despite paying taxes. We are also starting to see parents chastised for trying to teach anything that the Government did not approve the school to teach. Systems are out there already preventing parents from seeing what kids learn, all licensed to the few corporations who own Common Core of course.
Most teachers a few decades ago worked to better society. Today I talk to more teachers who work for a paycheck than who want a better society. Government audits have educators on very short leashes, and constant fear is not a good motivator. I'd say the world is going to hell, but I'm not quite convinced we are not already in hell.
Want to fix it? Okay, fire the Feds and State and hire educators who will revert our system to a Classical system of education. Change is scary, but what we have today was a change from a system that worked for a couple thousand years. Someone else can have the soap box now..
You want to protect people from their own behavior by using force and other people's money, and you claim someone else is trying to feel superior? Welcome to Orwellian speak..
I would be willing to bet that Woz is talking about his taxes before filing, not what he is actually paying. I'm going to guess that you would not wager against me.
Governments are not requiring it? Did you ever read NAFTA or TPPIP? Financial penalties and tax breaks are exactly Government force.
I interviewed at Google and was appalled at their system. I was told that for my 3rd and fourth interview I needed to go watch about 20 hours of Youtube Videos and study some cruft they wanted me to study. Not related to my experience or even the job in general. I was also told that I would be expected to work 60 hours a week, and should enjoy dinners on campus. In other words, I could be treated just like a H1B worker! WOW!
Google found my resume and called me, I never applied for a job. I heard from HR people inside Google that it's not always that way, and even know someone that took a manager job there. Amazingly, everyone I know from the technical side that interviewed there reported the same scenario I did.
Woz should be appalled by Apple's behavior why? Does he not take advantage of every possible loophole for himself? Does Google, Microsoft, GE, Texas Instruments, Yale University, and every other business out there not do the same? Apple is not special in that regard, and certainly not the source of the problem. Seems to me that Woz is being spiteful and vindictive.
Ending the H1B program to solve this problem would be a very stupid thing to do.
Ending the H1B program won't solve this problem because there is no magic bullet. Doing nothing sure as hell won't change the direction so we keep driving down. Ending the H1B program is just one of many steps in a long walk.
The H1B program is there for a lot more than hiring tech workers, so it would be a terrible first step! We are not going to solve a culture issue by changing immigration laws.
We all know that Tech is not the only market damaged by indentured servitude, so why do you claim that it's a bad thing to remove? We have 40 years of this bad policy which was denounced by people like Milton Friedman. He won a Nobel Prize for analysis showing how horrible for the citizens of the US our H1B program and lack of border protection was. Turns out we have proof he was right, so your claim of "terrible" is both empty and treasonous.
Much better to look at the issue of why so many companies do not appreciate experience, and why people who are older expect to get paid more, just because they are older.
Companies are not the problem. How about looking at why regulations and laws have been passed which require businesses to screw over employees in favor of overseas "cheap" labor? How about law changes which give foreign entities power over US businesses and interests? Law changes allowing massive land grabs by foreign powers? Hand waving and yelling "look over there!" won't do anything to fix our problems.
The next step for people like you is to claim how anyone who disagrees with open borders and H1B free-for-all policies are bigots and mean, we don't care about anyone or anything. Which is easy to spot ad hominem. The US taking care of the US first is as patriotic as you can get. Demanding that the US Government neglect it's own citizens to take care of Mexico, or China, or Taiwan, or England, or anywhere else is treasonous.
No, it's unfortunately not. The versions of the book I have are pay for books, the better being the linguistic and historical translations. The Cambridge Texts version is very good, but you should also have some history books handy to reference.
Sure, but it will have to be the Cliff notes version. The story is out of Plato's "The Republic" and pretty early in the defining of a Republic. I'd recommend you buy and read the linguistic translation of the book instead of the various philosophical interpretations of fragments.
The story of the Artisan is Socrates proposing that the Republic must protect against an artisan making huge sum of money for a single project. Not only does that act dissuade further work from the person, but even worse, the person is well equipped to meddle into other people's affairs. That latter part is a huge issue with modern Governments and the lack of any limitation, made worse by the lack of moral education.
Your summary does not come close to what Woz said. What he said was that Company and Personal taxes should be the same rate or favor personal tax, which I vehemently disagree with. I have yet to read a good economic argument as to why a company should pay the same rate, or a higher rate than people. People are subject to the Socrates's story of the Artisan, a company is not.
Apple is paying what the current system says is required. I agree that it's not a fair system, because their percentage is much less than a small business. The tax code is about 80,000 pages of unfairness. It should be a few pages for business tax, and less than a page for personal tax.
Selective taxes are why we are in the hole we are in. If Waz want's to donate, there is an easy way for him to do just that.
Always easy to give away other people's money...