Actually, I don’t think you get it. This is a floating office building that rents space outside of the US. The owner of the boat doesn’t own any of the businesses therein.
Ok, I’ll go real slow for you. The boat is 12 miles from Silicon Valley. Obviously that’s to allow management employees that live in that area to “commute” to the boat.
Yes, it’s “legal”.
A funny thing happened in the IT business over the last 20 years, it’s called outsourcing.
A funny think happened in my father’s business, manufacturing, called outsourcing.
So we have generations of people getting ripped off by big business. And being small business people, neither my father nor I was able to successfully out-lobby big business, so the laws and regulations that create the big-business-favorable situation, while opposed by many, ultimately passed. In the name of “free markets”.
But I don’t want to have a business where I hire a hundred programmers in a third-world country and I sell my software here in America. I will only hire Americans for software I sell in America. There is no reason why Americans can’t write the software that they use; there is no reason why Americans can’t make EVERYTHING they use. NONE.
The reason they don’t is because it is dictated from the top of the supply chain, i.e., the largest firms - GE, the auto companies, etc. They are MONOPOLIES. Smaller firms that sell to them have virtually no other customers.
I have worked for big business, as my father did. They are not “pro-American”. They are pro-themselves, even if they run America into the ground.