Can't help but notice that in the wake of Apple's historic blow-out financials there's a sudden rush of making Apple synecdoche for corporate evil, ala the peculiar notion that Apple, and Apple alone, is responsible for prevailing working conditions in Chinese factories.
It's inevitable, I guess, in that the big dog is going to draw attention, but it is kind of depressing to see comments sections bristling with "Maybe Apple can give some of that to their slaves" or "once Apple controls all of our lives maybe they'll let us jump off their roof" and the like.
Not that I don't fully support workers rights and whatever can be done to improve the lot of the average Chinese assembly line employee, it's just that pretending that it's an Apple problem (and the concomitant attitude that analysis of same begins and ends with "Apple sux") just so deeply misses the point.
Anywho, the timing of "Apple destroys all before it" and "Boycott Apple they have slaves" seems..... provocative.
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