on npr, during fund drives, speak of "driveway moment", sit in car listening show because want hear of it. yesterday, when this american life did story on apple fanboy mike daisey's visit foxconn in shenzhen guangdong china, across water hong kong.
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tale tells pretty brutal. factories eerily quiet because human labor more economical machinery. people work ridiculous hours, develop insurmountable rsis mid-to-late 20s or crippling tremors chemicals, and, broken machinery, tossed out when can no longer produce. china may once have been communist-ish, today workers blacklisted if join real labor union.
yet, grim reality of sweatshops step grim reality of rice paddies. people's lives have been improved globalist capitalism. vexing issue. find difficult accept western market ethos vastly superior alternatives ought blindly exported rest of world in way.
after all, in us, of people can barely function outside bounds of consumer culture. if grocery stores ran out of food, cope? if gas pumps ran dry, how here there? if internet went dark, able communicate people or retain information (wait, let me check wikipedia on that).
already, our society has drawn terribly close unstable edge, , want export that? perceive sort of sea change due, how make things better, more stable, more sustainable?
in dialogue president obama, steve jobs stated reason apple manufactures in china because need 30 000 engineers oversee production, resource apple unable acquire in us. criticized poor state of america's education cause.
if true, forces interesting questions, least of whether has bearing outside of reality distortion field…
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