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    This is what a capitalist utopia looks like, apparently:

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/20…

    Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option. One former executive described how the company relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp iPhone manufacturing just weeks before the device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhone’s screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. New screens began arriving at the plant near midnight.

    A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.

    “The speed and flexibility is breathtaking,” the executive said. “There’s no American plant that can match that.”

    Basically, if Americans want to work, they should agree to the following

    - live in company dorms
    - be on call 24/7
    - Can be woken up at midnight with biscuit and tea.
    - No worker's rights
    - No safety norms

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    • "How do you explain this ridiculousness?"CanHasQBN
    • We created a standard of living outside the rest of the world. seems absurd to us. I have no porblem thinkign all should have it
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    • have it. But its not logically possible. People get emotionally involved tryign to make it so creating more problems.
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    • problems.
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    • u buying an iphone CanHasQBN. dont like it dont buy it. this is how capitalism would work if you wouldnt be so greedy yourself.
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    • greedy yourself.
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    • is ANY cell phone made in the USA????CanHasQBN
    • doesnt matter. dont buy it if you dont like it. stick to your beliefs. dont sell out.
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    • and in order to make a living, I need a phone. So without a phone, I will be... homeless. Brilliant plan for America, handle!CanHasQBN
    • You are not addressing the problem by the root. We don't really have much of a choice at this point in modern timesCanHasQBN
    • to give up our phones.CanHasQBN
    • and by your logic, we'd pretty much have to give up EVERYTHING, seeing that pretty much everything we haveCanHasQBN
    • is made in another country with little to no labor laws.CanHasQBN
    • so what's your solution to this issue?
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    • We have to REGULATE corporations for the good of our country. Stop hiring Chinese and start hiring Americans! Get it?!CanHasQBN
    • Get it??!CanHasQBN
    • Regulate? So are you saying all businesses have to reside in US? This is a global market right? Basically u r saying that US companies need to end because the way I see it, another company not in the US will just take its place and we will buy their shit. wow man glad you thought that one through.
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    • US companies need to end because the way I see it, another company not in the US will just take its place and we will buy their shit. wow man glad you thought that one through.
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    • will buy their shit. wow man glad you thought that one through.
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