As long as a person is "fashionably left", the media and the masses don't seem to mind if that particular person is in the 1% like Ives and all of Apple's top executives. Never mind Apple's beautiful products are made by some of the poorest people on earth who spend their days stuck in working conditions the vast majority Apple product owners would never work in (they would rather live on government handouts than do that type of work for such little money). A vast majority of Chinese factories are nothing but the 21st century versions of the Southern Plantation and I'm sure good products the end consumer loved (who also voluntarily choose to stay blind of the working conditions it came from) came from those wicked places back in the day. Throughout human history it's been a very profitable business model to have the poor make your products, but history also shows that at some point it will end very badly before it eventually begins again somewhere else in a different but similar form.
While not directly related to Apple, China's prison system consist of over 5 million people in which most are forced to work in prison controlled factories for nothing. Those 5 million prisoners are not all thieves and murders but many of them are in prison for doing normal things we take for granted in our country. China also controls 95% of the world's access to rare earth minerals which are used to make most of our our favorite electronic devices, and I can guarantee those working into those ultra hazardous mines and refineries are NOT free.
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Originally Posted by Russell
Tim would be called a liar by the straight and gay people that know him. That's why he'll never deny being gay.
I don't get it. If he's not and he says he's not and the people that know him know he's not, why would they call him a liar?
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
I don't get it. If he's not and he says he's not and the people that know him know he's not, why would they call him a liar?
Because he IS gay. If he was not, he would have said so long ago. How old are you?
Originally Posted by Russell
How old are you?
Old enough to ask a legitimate question and expect a proper answer.
But too dumb to give a proper answer.
As long as a person is "fashionably left", the media and the masses don't seem to mind if that particular person is in the 1% like Ives and all of Apple's top executives. Never mind Apple's beautiful products are made by some of the poorest people on earth who spend their days stuck in working conditions the vast majority Apple product owners would never work in (they would rather live on government handouts than do that type of work for such little money). A vast majority of Chinese factories are nothing but the 21st century versions of the Southern Plantation and I'm sure good products the end consumer loved (who also voluntarily choose to stay blind of the working conditions it came from) came from those wicked places back in the day. Throughout human history it's been a very profitable business model to have the poor make your products, but history also shows that at some point it will end very badly before it eventually begins again somewhere else in a different but similar form.
While not directly related to Apple, China's prison system consist of over 5 million people in which most are forced to work in prison controlled factories for nothing. Those 5 million prisoners are not all thieves and murders but many of them are in prison for doing normal things we take for granted in our country. China also controls 95% of the world's access to rare earth minerals which are used to make most of our our favorite electronic devices, and I can guarantee those working into those ultra hazardous mines and refineries are NOT free.
Video of China's prison factories:
China's control of rare earth metals:
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
Old enough to ask a legitimate question and expect a proper answer.
And people expect the same.