"Over two decades the quintessential Chinese factory worker has gone from earning $50 a month assembling $100 sneakers to $300 or so a month, depending on overtime, assembling $300 or so smartphones. If a Foxconn worker — given the other opportunities in life and the current no-cell-phone policy on the factory floor — was going to splurge on a smartphone, the only reason he wouldn’t buy an iPhone is that Apple products are inevitably a ripoff, which is the not-so-dirty secret of 31.5 percent operating margins.
"Because when you work in a factory, brands lose a lot of mystique."
(Low whistle.)
Steve Jobs was not a good guy. He posted obscene gay flyers in sexual acts in the factory near a gay school and gay intersections. I asked him to consider taking them down. He told me he will do what ever he wants, whenever he wants.
I guess the cancer that killed him had the same attitude
Finally he gets the obit he deserved.
I can't read that.
One day people will learn to remember that aesthetic and personal worth are not the same thing.
But - "The generations that followed his own were more “materialistic” and less “idealistic” for not having tripped" - is AMAZING. Steve Jobs accusing people of being materialistic!
“Money shouldn’t be an issue when you’re employed at Apple. Working at Apple should be viewed as an experience.”
Motherfuck me. Jesus.
So my generation was right. Never trust a hippy.
"There once lived one of those really obstinate assholes who will constantly tell you he couldn’t change his assholic ways if it killed him. It killed him."
Lord, that made my week. I can't imagine how many centrist liberals (in the classical sense) this will offend