Assuming for a moment that the description of the conditions is correct, consider for a moment the conditions of shipbreakers at Alang. "Every day one ship, every day one dead," they say. Check out this one by Langewiesche and this one by Saffo. It's astonishing that these conditions exist, but even more so is that men are lined up by the hundreds for a chance to take their jobs.
I'm not going to defend Apple, but how much more are you willing to pay for an iPod to see that workers are treated the way you think they should be? Whose product will you buy because they treat their workers better than Apple does? Or will you refuse to buy it at all, for the sake of the working conditions in China or wherever? And how much will that help?
Reading the summary (even just the Dartmouth PR) brought to mind constraint-induced therapy and some cognitive therapies for OCD, the latter of which were investigated using PET. I just recently read about these in The Mind and the Brain by Schwartz & Begley.
I wonder how you would compare the nature & scale of the neurological changes you observed vs the changes associated with CIT and the cognitive OCD treatments? thanks...
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I'm not going to defend Apple, but how much more are you willing to pay for an iPod to see that workers are treated the way you think they should be? Whose product will you buy because they treat their workers better than Apple does? Or will you refuse to buy it at all, for the sake of the working conditions in China or wherever? And how much will that help?
I wonder how you would compare the nature & scale of the neurological changes you observed vs the changes associated with CIT and the cognitive OCD treatments?
thanks...