That is why I am upset by many Americans’ thinking. We do not have the same opportunities as the West. Our governmental infrastructure is different. The country is different.
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This line of thinking is so depressing. The incremental improvements offered by the mindless Foxconn “company store” model are undeniably better than rural farm labor. No one disputes that.
But Apple’s margins are north of 30% - their products make executives and designers unfathomably rich while workers make $2 a day. Foxconn and Apple’s model is an extraordinarily unfair distribution of the fruits of Apple’s labor; why aren’t rank-and-file factory workers rewarded with a larger share of Apple’s unimaginable wealth?
The answer is that they’re in a poor negotiating position and are repressed from collective bargaining. As a result, management absconds with the lion’s share of the money and the factory workers live like cattle. They get contemptibly referred to as animals by their tyrannical CEO. They are less than human.
And the West can’t wait to absolve itself of this sin, so toadies like David Pogue point out how we’re “saving” the poor savages. Disgusting.
