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TheWraith

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13. If they paid a living wage, the workers might not have to beg for 80 hour weeks.

Reply to Tesha (Reply #11)

Fri Mar 30, 2012, 07:56 PM

Mar 2012

Unless you're going to suggest that they just love working there SO MUCH that they'll beg to work 80 hour weeks just for fun, and they don't actually NEED any of that money, like the $100 billion dollars Apple is holding offshore to keep it away from US taxes.

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So because their wage-slavery is a little less slavey than the rest of China, it's okay? TheWraith Mar 2012 #10

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If they paid a living wage, the workers might not have to beg for 80 hour weeks. TheWraith Mar 2012 #13

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