[aberkowitz]

I fail to see a correlation between an internal Apple policy, and the price of their products.

[adamtmca]

It's actually one of Friedman's classic arguments, poorly articulated.

http://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/libertarians/issues/fr...

[notahacker]

Even Friedman's argument observes that some "socially responsible" spending might actually be in the interests of a corporation's shareholders

Tim Cook offering a tax-deductible (I assume) employee benefit that has the additional side effect of generating positive publicity probably falls into that bracket.