Nästa gång du önskar att iPod var billigare - läs detta:
iPod City: inside Apple's iPod factories
Utdrag ur texten:
Inside Longhua, workers labor a 15-hour day building iPods, for which they usually earn about $50 per month. When they're not on the assembly lines, they live in secluded dormitories that each house 100 people and prohibit visitors from the outside world. The workers are allowed "a few possessions" and a "bucket to wash their clothes."
"We have to work too hard and I am always tired. It's like being in the army," Zang Lan, one of the workers at Longhua, told the Mail. "They make us stand still for hours. If we move we are punished by being made to stand still for longer. The boys are made to do pushups."
Det är förstås varken en hemlighet eller en nyhet att nästan all konsumentelektronik tillverkas av lågbetalda asiaster (oftast kineser numera) under inte alltför humana förhållanden. Men det är bra att tänka på det nästa gång man är på väg att beklaga priset på iPod eller andra elektronikprodukter.
