The number of sales and profits so made by the biggest and most powerful multinational corporations in the world, so based in the United States, is truly astonishing. This would be, in the scheme of things, a tremendous boon for those that are denizens of America, if those multinational companies made it their principle point to employ as many Americans as possible, directly in their affairs, and to provide those so employed with some sort of reasonable job security, good benefit package, and at least a living wage. That would be ideal, if that was so happening, but in reality, multinational companies see the world typically as more of an opportunity to reduce their direct employment, thereby divesting themselves of the responsibility of providing wages and benefits to expensive domestic workers, and essentially instead outsourcing work overseas, in which the pay package, benefits, and costs so of, are often considerably cheaper than within America.
A case in point, is Apple, in which, we read that as of December 31, 2016, Apple had a direct employee count domestically of 80,000. Yet, Apple goes on to state that they are responsible for 2,000,000 jobs in America, so attributable through United States based suppliers as well as through their App Store ecosystem, of which none of these 1,920,000 people so employed, are actually directly employed by Apple. Further to the point, when we look outside America, we find that Apple utilizes for their overseas work, primarily foreign manufacturing contractors that themselves do the employing and thereby the supervising of hundreds of thousands of workers to assembly Apple products. In short, Apple, only directly employs around 80,000 domestic workers, yet had revenues of $378.35 billion in fiscal year 2021; in which the reason that Apple was able to generate such enormous sales, with so few direct domestic employees, has pretty much everything to do, with Apple outsourcing to foreign lands as much work as possible, to the detriment of their own country’s workers.
All of the above serves to point out the salient fact that in America, the biggest and most powerful corporations, aren’t primarily interested in taking care of doing their good part to employ as many Americans as possible, so as to keep America great and strong; but rather their preference is to find the lowest cost producer overseas for their products and thereby to outsource as much supply of this as possible, so as to increase their profits, through the clear and obvious exploitation of these overseas workers, who typically do not have the same basic and prudent protections so provided to domestic workers in regards to safety, overall work conditions, worker rights, hours, overtime pay, unions, and the like.
In other words, our biggest multinational corporations have made a conscious choice that profit always drives their overall business decisions, thereby signifying that they aren’t really interested in doing any manufacturing in America, especially if such may lend itself to having to either deal with a union that currently exists, or the reasonable potential of union activity to come. Rather, these multinationals are very opportunistic and duly determined to purposefully exploit foreign workers, as well as foreign lands, for they so believe that for the sake of profit, it is absolutely right to wring their bread from the sweat of oppressed other human beings, for their god, is the god of mammon, and none else.