Was anyone else horrified by that amazing article in the New York Times explaining why Apple builds products in China instead of the United States? How do we justify buying products from factories where people are treated in ways that we would never allow ourselves or our countrymen to be treated? As one former Apple executive says, “What U.S. plant can find 3,000 people overnight and convince them to live in dorms?” Yeah. We can’t do that. What’s more stunning is that some people seem to see this as a failing on our part. My longer reaction to that article just went up on the Daily Beast this morning.
They wake you in the middle of the night, give you tea and a biscuit, and then you start your 12-hour shift