The true cost of our techno lust. Your conscience is calling.

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Just received my new issue of Wired and Apple PR must be ecstatic with the cover, entitled '1 Million Workers. 90 Million iPhones. 17 Suicides. Who’s to Blame?'.

It digs up more on the well reported issue of suicides at the iPhone Shenzhen production plant in China. Wired reproduce Joel Johnson's excellent and pretty insightful piece from the mag fully here and well worth a read it is. If only to know the true cost of what we paid for...

Posted by Stephen Scott
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Mar 16, 2011
Paul McGunnigle said...
Good article, I've been reading "Fast Food Nation" recently and see a lot of parallels between this and the meat industry behind McDonald's and the other fast food giants.
Mar 16, 2011
Stephen Scott said...
Rly? I guess your right, and very similar to a movie I once watched the Walmart: the high cost of low prices: http://www.walmartmovie.com/

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