![[Two smiling people at a table. One is saying “I’m so happy we live in a world without slavery and imperialism.” There are boxes pointing to various objects around and on the people. They read:
COTTON: Picked in Uzbekistan where 2 million children as young as 7 are forced to pick cotton for 3p a kilo.
APPLES: Picked in California by Mexican migrant workers, not being paid minimum wage nor provided housing.
LAPTOP: Made in China by adults working 18 hours a day at 32p an hour. The laptop will end up back in China’s landfills, where children will dismantle it for its valuable metals including lead.
MOBILE PHONE: Gold, tantalum, tin, and tungsten mined in Congo in abysmal working conditions, causing disease and the regional conflict responsible for the deaths of over 5 million people and systematic rape of women.
ORANGE JUICE: Picked in Chile by women working 60 hours a week, below minimum wage.
FACE: Detoxed with Dead Sea salts sourced in occupied West Bank; land stolen by Israel from Palestinians, who are subject to continual and severe human rights violations.
COFFEE: Picked in Guatemala where entire families with children as young as 6 are forced to pick a 100-pound quota in order to get the minimum wage of less than £2/day
SHIRT: Sewn in India under forced labour conditions by people earning less than 25p an hour, for 16 hours a day, while being unable to send their children to school.
DIAMOND: Mined in Sierra Leone by children as young as 7, working in dangerous conditions for 10p an hour, six days a week.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxp6bd9syN1qfu6vwo1_500.jpg)
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January 14, 2012 at 11:49 am
I was watching MSNBC the other day and there’s this high button football player-style knob, Dylan Ratigan, going on about bringing economic justice back to America. And he, and others, are always blurting out things like “we need new innovators like Steve Jobs and Henry Ford to create more jobs” and I could tear my hair out. Henry Ford paid Americans to make cars. Jobs built his empire growing and exploiting the pool of “jobs” in the above graphic so swells can have iKit.
January 14, 2012 at 12:12 pm
Jobs was never a visionary. He was a marketeer, and a damned good one. The ideas came from others; he packaged them–admittedly, masterfully, but he was always about appearances.