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Isn't this sad? This should be no matter at all, bad working conditions is something of the past century. Enabling the next revolution should be the biggest challenge for them.

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Its easy to forget that unacceptable working conditions are not exclusive of china or even the tech manufacturing industry, see sago mine disaster, west virginia, 2006. Conditions for the working poor worldwide have a ways to go, and it seems to me Apple is taking a step in the right direction with independent investigation.

Worker rights in China are still in the early 1900s, or worse, their policies are feudal.

But Apple is not a company of the early 1900s, remember what Jobs tried with Next.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhfUKEu7sJ0

That is something that would suit a company like Apple.

Kind of ironic that the appalling working conditions of the 1900s are largely what gave rise to communism. Although based on what I know, the average 1900s factory worker would have sold their mother for Foxconn's working conditions.

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