tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829472822154103457.post1631511398722069873..comments2023-10-03T12:13:43.834-04:00Comments on The Man in the Van: Voodoo ChileOggy Bleacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01226955518208644619noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829472822154103457.post-11263360322446307542010-05-31T23:35:27.774-04:002010-05-31T23:35:27.774-04:00Thanks for the link. It further confirms my assert...Thanks for the link. It further confirms my assertions that iPhones are the new bale of cotton. We're arguing about the same things the abolitionists argued about in 1840. You can say that "They wouldn't have jobs if they didn't make my iPhone." and that sounds like an echo of a plantation owner who said, "What would these niggers do without tobacco to pick? We're making them civilized."<br />I've heard all the excuses before and they are the weak croakings of mental midgets. People obey Steve Jobs. It's that simple. He's made Apple products attractive and devised ways to make them necessary thus we have them. They are high tech, brilliant machines assembled and used by amoral apes. So when the bleakness of life becomes oppressive for people who live solely to assemble electronics then they jump off a building. I'm on the ledge myself.<br /><br />I'm telling you that the dirty secrets behind Apple will slowly come to the surface like this article. If you buy Apple products then you are no different than the redneck guy with a Confederate flag tattoo on his chest.<br />"Southern Pride" has become "Tech Pride" That Apple symbol is the new Old Glory.<br />You can point to all the benefits of these tech products and I can point to these factories full of people and say, "It all comes at a cost."<br />Your digital utopia is a Uncle Tom's cabin with a fancy paint job.<br />I am a voodoo child. Lord knows I'm a voodoo child.Oggy Bleacherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01226955518208644619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6829472822154103457.post-28509798228240937982010-05-31T22:55:03.597-04:002010-05-31T22:55:03.597-04:00http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/company-news/app...http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/company-news/apple-hp-and-sony-open-probes-into-latest-foxconn-suicides/19494974/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com