If Apple Were A Worker Cooperative, Each Employee Would Earn At Least $403K

[EarthFirst]

Cooperatives create sustainable economic employment and drives healthy communities for middle class employees...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cameronkeng/2014/12/18/if-apple-was-a-worker-cooperative-each-employee-would-earn-at-least-403k/#698debf32dee

[shadowmayor]

1. Does this include the Chinese laborers

How many assemblers work in China for Apple and are they included here, or just the American employees?

[zaj]

2. What examples of innovation driven companies exist?

Innovation requires risk and risk tolerant capital. High risk of loss demands high returns. Angel and venture capital demands that for each of 10 investments, 9 will be lost entirely. And the 10th will provide a minimum of 1000% return.

[stuffmatters]

3. As a Coop, Apple probably couldn't keep evading their billions in local state &national taxes.

[Lucky Luciano]

4. The workers in Silicon Valley probably do earn close to that amount. nt