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10 Suicides at Apple factory this year.
Deozaan:
It's gotten so bad they have installed a net to catch the jumpers!
Since January this year 10 young workers have killed themselves by jumping from the roof of the factory building at Foxconn in southern China.
Jobs today described the worker's deaths as 'troubling' but insisted that the factory 'is not a sweatshop'.-http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1283389/Apple-boss-Steve-Jobs-defends-China-Foxconn-factory-conditions-10-suicides.html
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Carol Haynes:
When William Wilberforce tried to abolish the slave trade one of the arguments of the slave traders was that the slaves had better conditions than if they were free.
Renegade:
Steve Jobs: 'Oh, that suicide factory? It's pretty nice. And oh yeah, f**k Adobe Flash too.' -- http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/mac/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225300272&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News
Simply unreal. The guy is just a real piece of work.
tomos:
Simply unreal. The guy is just a real piece of work.
-Renegade (June 04, 2010, 07:04 AM)
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agreed, sounds like he had nothing to say about the actual problems there, & if he tagged the stuff about Flash on at the end :tellme:
but OTOH, that article is really useless... [edit] I mean there's no detailed info in there about anything related to the situation or the press conference (was it even a press conference?) [/edit]
Deozaan:
Steve Jobs: 'Oh, that suicide factory? It's pretty nice. And oh yeah, **** Adobe Flash too.'
-Renegade (June 04, 2010, 07:04 AM)
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I had initially included that part in the quote because I was thinking the same thing, but decided to remove it and let others discover that for themselves.
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