- May 2019
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This American Life has retracted this story because
Absolutely true. People who have seen it will continue to believe it, as that's how people are nowadays. It's awful. Hopefully some people will see this too
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Each report surveyed over 100 Foxconn workers, and they even had a researcher go undercover and take a job at the Shenzhen plant.
They went to great lengths to determine the false accusations.
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Daisey sees some photos online from the inside of a factory that makes iPhones, starts to wonder about the people working there, and flies to China to meet them
This in itself is so strange. The way that it is wrote. He first sees photos online, believes them to probably be in an unfair work environment (as. the writer puts "wondering about the people") Then he takes it upon himself to fly there. Then, he sees it is up to the standards but lies anyways. I believe he sought out something against Apple but should have seeked it elsewhere as there's plenty of unjust work environments surrounding electronics
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We have removed the audio from our site
I wished the audio wouldn't have been removed. It makes me feel as though there is more to hide, that there is more to the story. I don't know if I am overthinking it
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What should we make of what Mike Daisey saw in China?
Well, he fabricated a lie based off of what he thought is morally incorrect, like unjust worker environment. But the fact that he based it off of a new lie doesn't right a wrong.
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he good news is that slavery can be stopped. We know how to bust slaveholders and free slaves, we know how much it costs and where to start, and we know that freed slaves tend to be willing workers in the rebuilding of our natural world. Ending slavery is a step forward in fixing our earth. There’s always been a moral case for stopping slavery; now there’s an environmental reason too.
It's unfortunate that we need multiple reasons to end slavery. As if our example of slaveries within our own country are not enough.
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Slaves lured or captured from the pool of vulnerable migrants are then forced to rip up the earth or level the forests, completing the cycle. Out of our sight,
"Completing the cycle" is such a poetic but gruesome way of describing how these slaves are forced to "rip up the Earth," "out of our sight." As consumers, this should never be out of our sight. They wouldn't advertise it. Then why are they allowing it? Cheap labor and more money for the company is all that is cared for. And as far as consumers, we want to think we are contributing to the better and becoming more technologically advanced. As long as it doesn't affect our community, our circle...
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If slavery were an American state it would have the population of California and the economic output of the District of Columbia, but it would be the world’s third-largest producer of CO2.
This is crazy to think about... this really put the technological waste into perspective as well as the perspective of the amounts of people that are suffering today and slaving over the parts needed for our cellphones.
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Cellphones have become electronic umbilical cords connecting us with our children, our partners, and our parents with an immediacy and reliability hardly known before.
This is describing the digital culture of technology and specifically cell phones being embedding into our lives .
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It’s never a happy moment when you’re shopping for a tombstone.
This is a really ominous start to this article. The purpose of this article is to teach its players about the dark side of the phone and they show this by right off of the bat relating it to BUYING somebody a tombstone.
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