Last night, ABC had a Nightline special which reported on the working conditions in the Foxconn plants at Shenzhen and Chengdu.
Each supply plant makes Apple products like the iPad and iPhone. The special, which was only 17 minutes long, confirmed what many already believed; that workers are extremely overworked and underpaid.
Mashable has collected a great amount of facts from the ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by Mr-Movies: You forgot the Simpsons and all of those cartoon series for adults?? too. I couldn't agree more, even FOX News should be questioned, I certainly don't buy into everything they spew, but at least they make an attempt at presenting both sides of the argument, no other News group really do that.
Wow, seriously?
I guess that might be right if you think 'both sides' of a story is the right-wing POV and the crazy even more right-wing POV.
The sad truth is that with a few exceptions the USA doesn't have a left-wing.
Just being slightly less inclined to promote & reinforce the interests of the most wealthy individuals & corporations does not make you 'of the left'.
That is basically all the US Dems are.
The idea that the Dems are in any ways 'socialist' or left-wing is laughable by any serious standard anywhere outside of the USA today.
But then the American body politic & media have simply decided to invent the definition for those terms themselves & apply them as abusive terms.
Just like 'Liberal' or 'Nazi'.
This is merely a reflection of how right-wing the USA is today.
The tweedle-dee & tweedle-dum of US politics is just a game.
Whatever you choose it's pretty much the same thing (with the drama of name-calling & a spurious 'political debate').
The idea that anyone in the mainstream US media is promoting the ideas & interests of anyone but the most wealthy is utterly hilarious.
....and hand-wringing over workers conditions where people are so distressed as to commit suicide over them does little to change a thing.
Ditto the growing slave workforce which is sprouting up all over the world.
China has vast prison cities where they manufacture goods with a labour cost that cannot be matched for low levels.
But they are hardly alone.
Even in the west it is happening.
But too few care - and more than a few think it right (until it happens to one of theirs or themselves, as usual).
Originally posted by Mr-Movies: You forgot the Simpsons and all of those cartoon series for adults?? too. I couldn't agree more, even FOX News should be questioned, I certainly don't buy into everything they spew, but at least they make an attempt at presenting both sides of the argument, no other News group really do that.
Wow, seriously?
I guess that might be right if you think 'both sides' of a story is the right-wing POV and the crazy even more right-wing POV.
The sad truth is that with a few exceptions the USA doesn't have a left-wing.
Just being slightly less inclined to promote & reinforce the interests of the most wealthy individuals & corporations does not make you 'of the left'.
That is basically all the US Dems are.
The idea that the Dems are in any ways 'socialist' or left-wing is laughable by any serious standard anywhere outside of the USA today.
But then the American body politic & media have simply decided to invent the definition for those terms themselves & apply them as abusive terms.
Just like 'Liberal' or 'Nazi'.
This is merely a reflection of how right-wing the USA is today.
The tweedle-dee & tweedle-dum of US politics is just a game.
Whatever you choose it's pretty much the same thing (with the drama of name-calling & a spurious 'political debate').
The idea that anyone in the mainstream US media is promoting the ideas & interests of anyone but the most wealthy is utterly hilarious.
....and hand-wringing over workers conditions where people are so distressed as to commit suicide over them does little to change a thing.
Ditto the growing slave workforce which is sprouting up all over the world.
China has vast prison cities where they manufacture goods with a labour cost that cannot be matched for low levels.
But they are hardly alone.
Even in the west it is happening.
But too few care - and more than a few think it right (until it happens to one of theirs or themselves, as usual).
well put.absolutely true but you are going to see a real shit storm from those who have had the party line pounded into their heads all their life.its hard for some to take a detached view of this as its easier sometimes to let feeling override logic.by the way,i really havent cared one way or another in this thread ever since it got off topic.
