Fake Steve Jobs on China ✭
Wednesday July 22nd 2009
Fake Steve Jobs (a satirical parody blogger) often has incisive points, and he’s one of the few who’s willing to state them as baldly as they deserve. Recently, a 25-year-old employee at Foxconn, the Chinese company that manufactures Apple’s iPhone, jumped off a building after being mistreated for losing an iPhone prototype. Fake Steve, on our way of life:
“We all know that there’s no fucking way in the world we should have microwave ovens and refrigerators and TV sets and everything else at the prices we’re paying for them. There’s no way we get all this stuff and everything is done fair and square and everyone gets treated right. No way. And don’t be confused — what we’re talking about here is our way of life. Our standard of living. You want to “fix things in China,” well, it’s gonna cost you. Because everything you own, it’s all done on the backs of millions of poor people whose lives are so awful you can’t even begin to imagine them, people who will do anything to get a life that is a tiny bit better than the shitty one they were born into, people who get exploited and treated like shit and, in the worst of all cases, pay with their lives.”
Fake Steve Jobs
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