You can fill in ANY popular product in the place of "iPhone" in this
piece. The iPhone 3G, Apple's most popular unit, is $99. It no doubt
costs around $20 to make. The $300 prices are for people who are not
AT&T customers, Wal-Mart's corporate headquarters are in Arkansas.
Bentonville. I've been there. They have a NEW office in China, which
makes sense, as it's their number one market. Their profits are
something, but nothing compared to the oil companies. Not to say one
form of exploitation is better than another.
Every time you fill your tank with oil refined in the United States,
you lower your standard of living.
On Jul 25, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Kelwyn wrote:
Foxcomm (Hon Hai) generates more revenue in a year than Apple, Dell
or Microsoft. Foxcomm won Apple's order to make the iPhone after
Foxcomm directed the business units to sell parts at zero profit.
Can you imagine 420,000 workers paid subsistence wages and jammed 8
to 10 to a dorm room?
What I want to know is why do these phones still cost $300?
Lastly, business practices oversees are eventually imported here.
We purchase our future subjugation.
Walmart moved their corporate headquarters to China. Walmart is the
number one company in America and this has led to the Walmarting of
America: collecting overtime after 40 hours instead of after 8
hours is courtesy of Walmart.
Every time you shop at Walmart you are lowering your standard of
living.
~(no)rave!
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@...>
wrote:
>
> Vanguard. They did a series of shows on Asia and China. One
covered Malaysia
> and how so many companies have left their for China because China
was even
> cheaper. (they tried to squeeze a few tax dollars out of the
billions that
> was there and the manufactures left!) Then he covered Hong Kong, and
> mainland China. I think it was all together 4 or 5 shows. The
reporter's
> name is Adam Yamaguchi. He's covering India right now.
>
> There's a ton of other videos on the site as well. Just doing a
search on
> China pulled up 403 pages of videos!
>
> You can also check it out on their website at:
> http://current.com/shows/vanguard/episodes/
>
> One of the things that I like about them is that they cover stuff
that
> doesn't get covered in the regular news channel and may NEVER get
covered by
> them. One reporter covered Somali pirates a year before they
attacked the US
> boat.
>
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Martin Baxter
<martinbaxt...@...>wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Missed that one, Mr Worf. What's the name of the show it was
on? I'll keep
> > an eye out for it.
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Mr. Worf
<hellomahog...@...>wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Did anyone see the story about factory closures in China on
Current tv?
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Martin Baxter
<martinbaxt...@...>wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Why does this NOT surprise me?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Kelwyn <ravena...@...> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/28/foxconn-plant-
china-deaths-suicides
> >>>>
> >>>> Construction workers began erecting anti-suicide nets today
at an
> >>>> industrial plant in southern China that makes millions of
the world's mobile
> >>>> phones and computers. Five-metre long steel poles were
bolted into the walls
> >>>> below the roofs to support webbing that will eventually
cover 1.5m square
> >>>> metres.
> >>>>
> >>>> To stem an epidemic of workers leaping to their deaths, the
Taiwanese
> >>>> electronics company Foxconn â€" which works with Apple, Dell
and Sony â€" has
> >>>> also pledged to raise salaries by 20% and offered
counselling to its 420,000
> >>>> employees here.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who
the bloody
> >>> hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant
> >>>
> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
> >> Mahogany at:
> >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the
bloody hell
> > wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
> Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/
mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
>
