Fair Labor Association Finds Foxconn Factory "First Class," Says Labor Watchdog

Richard.Tao writes "The Fair Labor Association found that Apple's plant where iPhones and iPads are far better than those at garment factories or other facilities elsewhere in the country. A quote: 'The lead investigator stated "The facilities are first-class; the physical conditions are way, way above average of the norm."' Which leaves the question, what is the acceptable norm?"

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Re:Obviously, that's what free market does

[roman_mir]

First: what an "argument"!

Second: I just read Rand's work, started a couple of weeks ago and posted the reviews (thus those links).

I've been posting here, on /., for about 11 maybe 12 years. I don't think I need to dig out 12 years worth of various comments, all one needs to do is look at my journal to understand that I never needed Rand's books to think what I think.

I am not a 'victim of Ayn Rand', I am a product of the world. The world, that is ran by stupid people.

You see, it is stupidity that runs the world. When Ponzi ran his scam, it was stupidity, gullibility, the wrong type of greed as well, that let people buy into his scam and then those very stupid people that lost their money (but it's a tiny fraction of all people) pushed for more 'regulations' and 'laws', and thus more distortion of the economy by threat of violence from government, which always helps government to grow some more and steal some more.

Stupidity rules the world and as long as it happens, there will be real con artists, and they will not be in free market, where con artists are eventually found out, their scams eventually fall apart and people stop wasting their money.

Government ponzi scams are found out, but it doesn't mean that the scam stops, because there is threat of government violence that keeps the scam going. The government mandates that the scam must go on, and that's how it works, be it in SS or money itself.