“We all know that there’s no fucking way in the world we should have microwave ovens and refrigerators and TV sets and everything else at the prices we’re paying for them. There’s no way we get all this stuff and everything is done fair and square and everyone gets treated right. No way. And don’t be confused — what we’re talking about here is our way of life. Our standard of living. You want to “fix things in China,” well, it’s gonna cost you. Because everything you own, it’s all done on the backs of millions of poor people whose lives are so awful you can’t even begin to imagine them, people who will do anything to get a life that is a tiny bit better than the shitty one they were born into, people who get exploited and treated like shit and, in the worst of all cases, pay with their lives.”
Except of course, without all of these jobs, they’d be even POORER and have an ever CRAPPIER life. I hate these righteous people who think that just because they are making way less than they would here in America they are worse of. In fact, they are BETTER off. We give them money to LIVE. Again, just because its cheaper than here, doesn’t mean that it isn’t a lot of money there. Wake up people
| — | Fake Steve Jobs on cheap overseas manufacturing. (via John Gruber) (via marco) |