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Foxconn working conditions in China. [Locked] |
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I listened to parts of this on NPR this weekend.
This American Life posted:
Mike Daisey was a self-described "worshipper in the cult of Mac." Then he saw some photos from a new iPhone, taken by workers at the factory where it was made. Mike wondered: Who makes all my crap? He traveled to China to find out.
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The Atlantic posted:
As American consumers ogle over shiny new gadgets at this week's Consumer Electronic's Show, the workers that make those products are threatening mass suicide for the horrid working conditions at Foxconn. 300 employees who worked making the Xbox 360 stood at the edge of the factory building, about to jump, after their boss reneged on promised compensation, reports English news site Want China Times. It's not like this is the first time working conditions at Foxconn have made news outside China. But iPhone and Xbox sales surely haven't lagged in the wake of those revelations and neither Apple nor Microsoft has done much of anything to fix things.
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Not that I am unsympathetic but in all candor I don't care. My own nation has its own very serious issues affecting Americans. And I don't buy their products anyway (TTBOMK). They can sort out their own problems and I would expect nothing less of the people there to stick up for themselves.
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vn_nnanji  Title: Outpost Music Expert
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Hold on, let me get that article up on my ipad......
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Moe_Nox Title: In Moe We Trust
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Buying the crap made in China is making the Chinese want to kill themselves? I may have to start shopping at WalMart.
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dae_trist Posts: 1,049
Registered: 2003-6-5 13:32:39
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They should just beg the majority for food stamps and free everything
Oh wait
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Clackdor  Posts: 163
Registered: 2001-9-21 12:10:52
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I want cheap mod and don't care if you have to kill 10 babies to get it to me.
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
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Sounds like something Jesus might have said!
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Sounds like an issue with the government. Is it ineffectual or just corrupt?
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dae_trist Posts: 1,049
Registered: 2003-6-5 13:32:39
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The government basically pays for all of their food, housing, utilities, and is expanding on healthcare.
Chinese people just aren't very docile and will protest even if you threaten to shoot them, unlike the fat hippie cowards in their scooters in America.
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"wardens do waht 40 dps at most? friars do 600 dps"
"well maybe the aoe taunt that bains had..."
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Moe_Nox Title: In Moe We Trust
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Registered: 2007-2-4 12:17:56
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lulz, and I thought news traveled to Croatia slow. When word of the national OWS protest finally get to Chinville, ask and we'll explain it to you.
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