2 Responses to "If You Can’t Afford an iPhone iPhone, You Can Always Get an iPhone Gas Stove"

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   Naveen   February 24, 2012 at 4:55 pm

   When China is busy doing this, look at what is happening in India.

   http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Right-to-sleep-a-fundamental-right-says-Supreme-Court/articleshow/12025358.cms

   SearchIndia.com Responds:

   Only in Mera Bharat Mahaan! 😉

   That said, those of us who have moved out of Incredible India perhaps don’t realize how difficult it is to get a Good Night’s sleep there.

   Between the Mosquitoes, Gorkha’s whistles, sound of vehicles, yells of drunks, stray-dogs barking, Festival orchestras, early morning Namaaz from Mosque, Suprabatham from temple etc, Indians may have a point when they complain that even Sound Sleep is denied to them!

   India is a difficult country to survive sleep in.

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   guruji   February 25, 2012 at 10:17 pm

   I wonder if the Chinese actually know that Apple exploits their fellow countrymen, for the manufacture of their favorite “i”Devices.

   Or is the Chinese government controlling the media feed, not letting this get to the country’s residents?

   May be if they knew what was going on, this won’t occur!

   http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-ipad-and-the-human-costs-for-workers-in-china.html?_r=3&ref=technology&pagewanted=all

   SearchIndia.com Responds:

   You write: I wonder if the Chinese actually know that Apple exploits their fellow countrymen, for the manufacture of their favorite “i”Devices…..May be if they knew what was going on, this won’t occur!

   Despite the hard conditions and some well-reported suicides at iPhone/iPad manufacturer Foxconn, most Chinese workers don’t consider Foxconn/Apple’s exploitative behavior as exploitation because the alternative in the countryside is worse – starvation.

   As the savants at SI wrote some two years back after watching the Chinese documentary The Last Train Home:

   The documentary highlights the migration of millions and millions of Chinese people from the rural hinterlands to Guangzhou and other cities where they labor in factories that make a variety of goods, largely for export to the West. As the movie notes, in many villages only the elders are left as all the youngsters have left for the cities…..The virtue of Last Train Home is to showcase the high price paid by tens of millions of poor Chinese workers and their children – Long years of separation from the children, living in hovels in distant cities, working long hours in hard conditions, absence of affordable medical facilities, lack of unemployment insurance when business slows down following the 2008 economic crisis in the West and the immense tension between parents and children wrought by years of separation.

   Capitalism is built on bamboozling your fellow humans so that you can holiday in Hawaii and the Riviera, feast on caviar, get weekly injections of Botox and obtain a buxom trophy wife while your employee dies an early death toiling for you on less than sustenance wages.

   In previous centuries we called such abhorrent practices slavery, now we use the euphemism Capitalism!

   Boy, are we glad Satan called Steve Jobs home early!

   N.B.: Just in case you are unaware, Foxconn raised the wages of their employees after the NYT report came out. Read it on the Zite App on our Made-in-China iPad last week. 😉

   But considering what the Chinese bastards are doing to Mera Bharat Mahaan, don’t blame us for not shedding too many tears over their workers’ plight.

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