STOCK MARKET WATCH - Thursday, 26 January 2012

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39. Apple Driving Workers to Threaten Mass Suicide? The Pathologies of the Modern Corporation

http://www.alternet.org/vision/153873/apple_driving_workers_to_threaten_mass_suicide_the_pathologies_of_the_modern_corporation/

Here in my household, we are swimming in Apple products. We have four iPhones, although only three of them are currently in use. We have an iPod and an iPad. We have a MacBook and a MacBook Air (on which this post is currently being composed). We have two iBooks in storage, along with my iMac, which dates to the summer of 2000. It still boots up and works just fine.

I’m not an Apple fanboy. I just prefer products that work well, rarely ever crash, and help me create value. Apple products meet those needs perfectly, whereas most PCs I’ve used simply don't.

If those were the only things I cared about in life, I wouldn’t give those products a second thought. But there’s more to life than a functional piece of consumer electronics. Those items should exist to help me do the things in life that I want to do, to help me live a better life. They’re tools, not ends.




***disclaimer: i am an apple product fan. -- it's just stupid of them to engage in this horrible behavior -- it's going to hurt them or worse.