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Tuesday, April 19, 2011 | 12:00pm
Jessie Jackson Jr. Discovers iPad Caused The Recession/ Unemployment
We had economist, analysts and specialist racking their brain and low and behold Junior had the answer all along. lol
@JacksonJrOnline #iPad #jobs
Thank God the Federal Government didn’t shut down… it have Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. the opportunity to unveil the diabacle plot devised by Apple to destroy the economy and put millions out of work. According to the Jr. the iPad is the culprit for “eliminating thousands of jobs.” DUN DUN DUN (cue the Batman crisis music)
“Now Borders is closing stores because, why do you need to go to Borders anymore? Why do you need to go to Barnes & Noble? Buy an iPad and download your newspaper, download your book, download your magazine.”
Kinda makes a wee bit of sense if you think about it. Clearly its not the iPad that’s responsible for this trend rather the shift in consumer behavior and unwilliness or unfortunate stubborness on the part of the print industries to adapt to the turning tides. With the business world so reactionary, the major industry leaders were all looking to each other to make the first move and instead stood still and now that the technological tsunami has hit they’re left without even the slightest lift raft.
So poor Jessie. We understand there are no intelligence requirements to be an elected official. We’ll excuse you. After all I bet a half dozen people clapped in applause following your asinine premise. Ironically, last month, Jackson Jr. proposed that the U.S. government provide an iPad to every student in the nation. Go figure.
FILED IN Humor
I can’t believe I’m saying this… he’s right.
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Well, kind of. It’s not so much apple the company that’s ruining things. It’s what apple stands for (easy purchasing across borders via the internet).
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Let’s start with the record industry… In the old days, when one of your favorite people came out with a new album (yes, that long ago), your only choice was to buy the album or not buy the album.
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With few exceptions, a 15 song album had maybe 6 good songs, 6 OK songs, and 2 crap songs. You bought the crap songs because it came with the album. And maybe, over time, some of the crap songs weren’t so crappy as they once were, and eventually people liked them. (kind of like the movie Godfather 3, which took at least 10 viewings before I started to like it.)
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Now, when an album comes out, you don’t have to buy it. You can buy individual songs for 99 cents. Songs which are not immediately popular get no listening (and no chance to grow on you), and the company loses all of the extra revenue they would have made selling the whole album.
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Add to this the fact that the music is digital, and you lose: all of the jobs for the people who used to make the albums; the jobs for the people who had to transport it to the stores; the jobs for the company that made the boxes that the albums went in; the jobs of the record stores who used to sell the album.
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What makes the internet great is also what makes it so terrible: it creates a situation where you will eventually only have 1 or 2 companies that make any product; which will almost certainly cause a drastic reduction in jobs.
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Consider this: Let’s say that you want to buy a coffee pot. In the old days, you would drive to the store, check out their prices and models; drive to other stores to compare, and then make your purchase.
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The price you paid in New York would be more expensive than the price you paid in Detroit, but that was the cost of having the coffee pot somewhere where you could buy it. You had to factor in the cost of getting it to you; and with the number of people shopping, there was enough business for 5 or 6 stores to survive selling coffee pots.
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Then someone opens a web site to sell coffee pots. They have a direct connection to china, so they can sell them cheaper. They sell them all across the US, so they can afford free shipping. Now, they can sell coffee pots cheaper than the store on the street (they have no rent to pay either), and they can ship them directly to your door.
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Pretty soon, your local mom and pop stores no longer have anyone buying their coffee pots, and they go out of business. Multiply this by 1000 industries with 10,000 products; add in cheap overseas labor that gladly work for 1/10th of what Americans do; and you wind up with no jobs for anyone.
Malcolm hit the nail on the head, so in a round about way Jessie is right. All this comes down to is greed. Greed on the part of business owners trying to get every last penny outta their companies and not investing any back in. How different would things have been if all the music and retail companies had embraced online retail and digital downloads? Alot of jobs coulda been saved or created if they had embraced the technology and reacted to the consumer rather than trying to control the consumer.
THE REV’S N U DUDES R RIGHT, IF U WANNA BUY A BOOK OR ANY TYPE OF READING MATERIAL, U GOTTA FUCK WITH AN IPAD OR KINDLE, CREDIT DEBT STARTS, PEOPLE LOSING THEIR JOBS CAUSE OF CHEAP LABOR, FELLAS ALL THIS IS, IS THE AMERICAN DREAM, THE GREEDY GETTIN GREEDIER