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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Quotation
Apple brings in some $400,000 per employee but little of that goes to those working in the suicide-ridden Foxconn factories, whose CEO compares workers to animals. Another choice quote from an Apple exec: ‘We don’t have an obligation to solve America’s problems. Our only obligation is making the best product possible.’ This is the very definition of the sociopath corporation.
Seattle Times columnist Jon Talton, decrying Apple for its use of slave labor to generate profits.