Apple has become an enormous economy trigger nowadays. Not only the products like iMac, iPod, iPhone, create big fortunes, but also the image and success of this company make millions of ideas invented and to make money. Even the founder, Steve Jobs's death, created profits for people like publisher, book sellers, I believe there will be a movie of the great man soon and that will be another hit.
As everything related to Apple looks so attractive and such a money maker, there are worrying issues need to be concerned. Please check below two links, one is from New York Times and another is a Chinese article, and find the questions as below:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html?_r=4&smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto&pagewanted=all
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E8%A1%80%E6%B1%97%E5%B7%A5%E5%BB%A0-%E7%BE%8E%E5%AA%92%E8%BD%9F%E8%98%8B%E6%9E%9C%E6%89%8D%E6%98%AF%E5%85%83%E5%87%B6-213000737.html
1. After reading these two articles, what is your opinion and impression to Apple if you were an American?
2. It mentioned the flexibility and cost efficiency of Chinese factory in the first article, and these are exactly the advantages of China to be the fastest growing economy in global market, but in the another one, it mentioned the negative status which caused in China. Do you think there is a balance between them? What is your opinion regarding the situation?
3. Do you think the disappearance of the middle class is the pinnacle of the Capitalism?
4. As we all aware, employees in Asia compared to the ones in Europe and the U.S.A. are more hardworking and less freedom and rights. Some say this is all about culture, what do you think? Do you think we can be like employees in overseas?
As there are lots of issues worth discussing in these two articles, I'll just leave only 4 questions here. Please feel free to raise any topic you would like to talk about.
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