“I’m afraid that I coming to an unfortunate conclusion about some of these people protesting about the wages and working conditions at Foxconn,” Tim Worstall writes for Forbes. “They don’t seem to have much understanding of the world that they inhabit.”
MacDailyNews Take: What’s taking you so long, Tim? 😉
“The people at SACOM (Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior) have released yet another report insisting that Apple and Foxconn just aren’t doing enough,” Worstall writes. “Yes, I am aware that working conditions there aren’t great and that wages, by your and my standards, are low. But that’s what being a poor person in a poor country means. Working hard at a bad job for little money. All of which is well known and so I really do find it terribly difficult to understand what SACOM are on about. Maybe the bright students are studying and the others are running SACOM?”
Read more in the full article – highly recommended – here.
MacDailyNews Take: Stupid and Stupider Announcing Colossal Mendacity.
Ever notice that the stupidest “activists” are often extremely cloistered in well-to-do parts of the world? These wet-behind-the-ears wannabe-activist bozos with absolutely no sense of perspective and zero idea what “poor” really means would do well to get out and see a bit of the world before opening their pampered pie-holes and/or signing electronic petitions that aren’t worth a bucket of warm piss.
Also, for a wonderful example of biased, slanted, yellow journalism, check out Reuters today which starts with the lies right from the headline, “Apple assembly plant conditions still harsh in China: activists,” here.
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