n time, though, we came to accept the view supported by most Asians.
Potential brainwashing?
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- Jul 2017
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www.thisamericanlife.org www.thisamericanlife.org
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Should we feel weird about the computers and phones we use, all the clothes that we wear, that are made in faraway factories in Asia, under harsh working conditions?
YES. Yes we should. By purchasing these items we pump more money into slave labor and terrible working conditions and the harming of our environment and natural resources.
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They asked for mental health counselors
Here's the thing about taking actions like this: just because theoretically Foxconn HAS a mental health professional, doesn't mean they advertise it to the workers or make it easy to get counseling. Just because they implement new ways to weed out underage workers doesn't mean someone may turn a blind eye or show up with a fake ID. It all means nothing without a proper system in place to enforce it, which Foxconn seems highly unlikely to do or care about.
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With so many workers quitting,
here, a high turnover rate is a MAJOR Red Flag that may keep people from applying. I know that's always a question I ask when going to a job interview.
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you hardly even notice it at all.
I had a friend who moved here from the deep countryside of Norway and she said the air here took getting used to because of how polluted it was. I can't imagine how bad this air must be then.
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I was like, pwop, Command V, pwop. It looks like that. But smaller, because they're laptops.
this is honestly how I imagined they were made until I took a women's studies class that talked about slave labor for electronics about a year ago.
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And of all the kinds of technology that I love in the world, I love the technology that comes from Apple the most, because I am an Apple aficionado. I'm an Apple partisan. I'm Apple fanboy. I'm a worshiper in the cult of Mac. I've been to the House of Jobs. I've walked the stations of his cross. I have knelt before his throne.And like so many of you who may be members of this religion with me, you may know that it can be difficult at times to keep the faith. And I have strayed now and again. In the late '90s, I did sleep with a Windows system or two. But who didn't, really? But for the most part, I have been faithful.
Had to read this entire section out loud dramatic monologue style.
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Our phones, our computers, our clothes, our household goods.
This seems especially crazy when you think about it because of how huge the idea of being self-made is in this country.
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I'm not allowed to say.
They've changed the answer- no matter how I phrased it, my iPhone 5SE would just repeat the answer to the first question.
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Experts believe that ten million people died
Isn't it interesting how few people know of this and yet everyone learns about the holocaust by age 16?
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seeking new livelihoods, only to find themselves enslaved.
I once read an article on women in Russia who seek to escape sexism and abusive families often end up enslaved in sex work or sold as brides in an effort to find new work and create a better life for themselves.
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The profits generated when we go shopping flow back down the chain and fuel more assaults on the natural world, drive more people toward enslavement, and feed more goods into the global supply chain.
The way we spend our money is increasingly important. By refusing to support chains and businesses that use slaves or harmful processes, we can help to eliminate them. People joke about how one vegan won't take down the meat industry but every cent makes a difference.
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But all this normally happens far from any prying eyes. It’s a hidden world that keeps its secrets.
No one wants to know how the sausage gets made.
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rings
Diamonds are sourced in as poor conditions as tombstones, and yet realistically are one of the most common and non-unique stones to give to someone.
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Suddenly, the care taken to remember and mark the lives of loved ones took an ugly turn.
begs the question, 'is marking the death of one person worth anothers life?'
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The rice and beans they eat, the scrap stones they use to build a hut on the side of the quarry, the hammers and crowbars they need to do their work, all of it is provided by the boss and added to the family’s debt
Like indentured slaves in colonial US. Pay for the trip over seas and give them a home in exchange for years of slavery. At least in that case there were time limits already in place.
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you can’t afford to die in Germany.”
In the US some families have savings set up for funeral costs worth thousands of dollars.
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We think of Steve Jobs in his black turtleneck as the origin of our iPhones
Even then, Steve is credited with stealing the idea from his partner and going solo.
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