I don't watch "reality" television programs. I don't know who is a "survivor," nor whom the "bachelor" or "bachelorette" have selected, nor joined the excitement of the "amazing race" around the globe. That was my track record until recently. I have been caught up with "The Apprentice." I enjoy watching the aspiring business moguls try to win a job from Donald Trump by solving the business challenges he sets before them.
A recent episode showed each team developing a product for Staples, the office supply store. The winning product was an upright revolving desk organizer. It was such an impressive product that I ordered one online and three days later had my "Desk Apprentice." I was surprised when I saw the "Made in China" label on the shipping box. Here was a product designed on a show that's hosted by that bastion of American capitalism, Donald Trump, and made overseas in a country known for cheap labor. But in reality, it is the capitalism that Trump espouses and practices that promotes making a consumable product like the Desk Apprentice in China.