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High Tech Misery In China
theodp writes "Think you've got a bad job? Think again. You could be making keyboards for IBM, Microsoft, Dell, Lenovo and HP at Meitai Plastic and Electronics, a Chinese hardware factory. Prompted by the release of High Tech Misery in China by a human-rights group, a self-regulating body set up by tech companies will conduct an audit of working conditions at the factory. In return for take-home pay of 41 cents per hour, workers reportedly sit on hard wooden stools for 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. Overtime is mandatory, with workers being given on average two days off per month. While on the production line, workers are not allowed to raise their hands or heads, are given 1.1 seconds to snap each key into place, and are encouraged to 'actively monitor each other' to see if any company rules are being transgressed. They are also monitored by guards. Workers are fined if they break the rules, locked in the factory for four days per week, and sleep in crowded dormitories. Okay, it's not all bad news — they're hiring."
What human "right"? The right to whatever an American personally thinks is the "right" amount of pay because his middle class standard is the benchmark by which all things should be judged?
If the people in China weren't willing to accept these cheap jobs, then they wouldn't have them; they'd be either going somewhere else or automating.
Oh for fucks sake, now your going to be able to justify a war with china by saying "its to help propel them to improve conditions for workers"?
Oh, wait, dubbya is gone and your new guy isn't a warmonger.
Go about your business.
ps, please avoid calling wars "nice"
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Yeah....right......as the globalist swine posting to /. have been claiming year-after-year-after-year.....
Sorry, clowns, but it won't ever be happening in this century. It's about slave labor, the next trend is that the serfs --- and soon-to-be serfs in the Western Hemisphere will be joining their Chinese brothers in such conditions.....unless they grow a pair and take to the streets and overthrow the banksters....you know, those guys who have destroyed the economy, and are reaping ever more criminal profits from TARP and the "stimulus".....
Price tag to A.I.G. to date: $155 billion and counting....
Slaves? Please people like you need a swift slap in the face. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Americans moan about the loss of factory jobs and at the same time have the audacity to condemn factory work conditions. Unless Americans are willing to voluntarily match the efforts of the VOLUNTARY Chinese assembly line worker, factory jobs will NEVER come back. Personally, I think we should concentrate on jobs related to the mind, not brute force. Let the Chinese work with their hands for us. Everyone earns what their labor and skills are worth, now stop whining because the Chinese sure are not.
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What limited resources? What war can be attributed to fight over those "limited resources"?
Wars are always about control over resources, making initially abundant resources inaccessible and therefore profitable, or providing resources for ridiculously wasteful use (ex: US and its cars, urban sprawl, income disparity, etc.) Since the beginning of the industrial age mankind never faced a problem with overall amount of resources necessary for survival of the world's population, so as long as the greatest warmongers (I mean, of course, US) will focus on their own problems, there will be no wars.
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