Apple Not Able to Open Stores in India Without Selling 30% Locally Sourced Goods

Re:Apple Not Able to Open Stores in India Without Selling 30... by argonaut on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @06:23PM (#11773621)

> Imagine the amount of damage something like NAFTA has done to the american working class - multiply that with 200 years.

Citation needed. This is still a controversial issue in policy, and anyone certain of any one side has no idea what they're talking about. There is evidence it net hurt jobs. There is evidence it net gained jobs for the US.

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Re:Apple Not Able to Open Stores in India Without Selling 30... by Retric on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @06:59PM (#11773849)

Not all jobs are created equal. NAFTA was great for destroying Unions and lowering costs, not sure if it created good jobs.

Of course it was just another attack on the middle class. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/06/are-unio...

PS: I don't 100% agree with this, but it's a viewpoint I rarely see on HN and fits the discussion.

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Re:Apple Not Able to Open Stores in India Without Selling 30... by perseusprime11 on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @06:25PM (#11773646)

What about robots replacing jobs? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36376966

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Re:Apple Not Able to Open Stores in India Without Selling 30... by argonaut on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @06:27PM (#11773653)

Irrelevant to my point?

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Re:Apple Not Able to Open Stores in India Without Selling 30... by praxulus on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @06:37PM (#11773714)

They might be saying that evidence of job loss to Mexico is further complicated by the fact that the jobs may have been lost to automation anyway. I.e. that's one more reason nobody can definitively say NAFTA was good/bad for American working class employment.

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Re:Apple Not Able to Open Stores in India Without Selling 30... by perseusprime11 on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @07:51PM (#11774107)

Bingo!

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