Fingernail on 19/6/2006 at 11:48
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Lhet on 19/6/2006 at 20:40
I think I'll just stick with my laptop thank you.
I'd like to see somebody play WoW on any small device.
Aerothorn on 20/6/2006 at 05:04
Of course they're made in sweatshops! How else do you think they could sell them for the ridiculously low price of $300?
Oh, wait...
trevor the sheep on 20/6/2006 at 12:30
Yeah because they get paid? and can leave? presumably?
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Vernon on 20/6/2006 at 12:45
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http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1799) Not exactly.
Quote:
Inside Longhua, workers labor a 15-hour day building iPods, for which they usually earn about $50 per month. When they're not on the assembly lines, they live in secluded dormitories that each house 100 people and prohibit visitors from the outside world. The workers are allowed "a few possessions" and a "bucket to wash their clothes."
"We have to work too hard and I am always tired. It's like being in the army," Zang Lan, one of the workers at Longhua, told the Mail. "They make us stand still for hours. If we move we are punished by being made to stand still for longer. The boys are made to do pushups."
TF on 20/6/2006 at 13:11
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trevor the sheep on 20/6/2006 at 14:21
Consider me corrected like a chinese boy
EDIT: that was just an excuse to say chinese boy
The people can still leave I presume? And aren't the property of Foxconn? And weren't made to work in the factory against their will? Then that isn't slave labour. Fucked up but not slave labour.
tungsten on 21/6/2006 at 01:50
I am totally against Ipods, I think they're lame. But what's going on here is unfair (against Apple). It has not much to do with Apple or Ipod. It's how we rich suckers live our lives. That is how we get our cheap goods. Face it. Then either live with it (and be happy until the backwash kills us all off) or go to Australia and herd sheep (oh, and leave your Ipod here before you go).
I'm not against such protests, but it's not "Apple is bad" but "we are bad" or as Colbert put it: "[thank you dear Embassador of China] you make our happy-meals possible".
