Where this started'
This American Life retracts Apple Mike Daisey China show
"What I do is not journalism. The tools of the theatre are not the same as the tools of journalism," he wrote. "This American Life is essentially a journalistic *- not a theatrical *- enterprise, and as such it operates under a different set of rules and expectations."
In short, this asshole played on the bigotry and jealousy (example： THIS thread) and made up a bullshit story about how Apple abuses it`s employees which has sinse been retracted. (it should be noted, I personally have never bought anything from Apple - although I was given an iPod 7 years ago and still use it).
There`s a couple things going on here. One is an age old prejudice that says: people with money are greedy SOBs that somehow only got `rich` by ripping off everyone else. This is what Asguard is suggesting Steve Jobs has done (he probably made the complaint on his iPad). Hence this asinine `
I hope you`re happy now Steve! YOU made a Chinese sell his kidney! You sick F%ck!!`
In a Free Market this is not the case as people are only able to deal with you IF they have money AND WANT to part with it to freely purchase your product.
I boil this one down to pure jealousy and ignorance of basic economics.
The sad thing is the EXACT OPPOSITE is true. Steve Jobs has saved more people`s lives and brought wealth and prosperity to more people in China than Asguard will ever dream of doing. Millions of peoples lives have been bettered all thanks to the tireless (nearly selfless) drive of someone like Steve Jobs. Millions of trees have been saved as we move away from paper to paperless. Millions of Chinese can now afford to buy a house, send their children to university, and use the knowledge they have gained to start competing companies against Apple. Asguard pulls this one example of some idiot with a screw loose who sold his kidney for money (some of which he used to buy an Apple product). I heard he also bought a pair of Ugg Boots! (I I can hear Asguard now: F%cking sick F%cking Australians and their sick made in China Ugg Boots). As if this represents the norm. Why not talk about the literally hundreds of millions of people who have a better life? We can`t see the thousands who would have starved to death, or went into jobs like prostitution to make money for food for their parents. Asguard simply ignores that different future that would exist (and did) if not for Apple and people like Steve Jobs.
The second thing, the people who start companies are the HEROS of our society, not the villains. I find it sad that so many in society have things so f%cking bass-assed-backwards that they make this plainly obvious mistake. I knew a person who worked at David Jones (retail chain) and he`d ALWAYS complain David Jones was `ripping him off` and he`d do his best NOT to make any more money selling ties than what he was paid working there - so they 'couldn`t 'suck any more blood out of him'.
See, this is f%cked-n-the-head logic. People like this are worse than useless.
The truth is MOST people who start a business that is not involved in a monopoly take great pride in their work and bettering their employees lives along with their own. See here:
Italy politician says Monti has suicides on conscience. An Italian man who committed suicide rather than make a single employee redundant (he finally went bankrupt and couldn`t live with the fact so many people he cared for would loose their jobs at his factory).
This man was a Hero.
BUT, would it matter what was in his heart? Would it matter IF he was a greedy SOB? NO, it wouldn't because he created a company that served the society. As a matter of fact, it could ONLY servive IF it freely provided what society desired.
Final point: Bankers.
Bankers have an important role. But, IMO they`ve moved past playing the role as a utility that they should be playing and are now gambling with generations of people`s futures.
When this house of cards falls. I`d like to hope people were smart enough to restructure our monetary system so that we have competing currencies as this is about the only real check on the true villains in our society (politicians and their financiers/central bank). But, that`s probably not going to happen. People will line up behind the Asguard`s of the world and thus, our society will continue on it`s downward spiral as government grows and the productive class shrinks, migrates or simple doesn`t bother trying to create a business.
It's a cycle we have seen play out for millennia.
