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To: rnsmth who wrote (12236)	11/5/2011 4:52:04 PM
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The Darker Side of Apple: The Human Cost of Your iProducts By Stacy Curtin \| Daily Ticker – Fri, Nov 4, 2011 12:44 PM EDT finance.yahoo.com Excerpt: As research for his show, Daisey visited Foxconn—a place many journalists and Americans have never visited—and what he found surprised him beyond belief. "What I was really shocked by was institutionalized dehumanization," he says. "The systems that are put in place are working and the objective of them working is to work people, basically, to death." He's talking about "massive production lines" where people work "endlessly." Workers are never rotated and end up doing the same task hundreds of thousand of times. "I met many workers whose joints in their hands have disintegrated from doing that work…. [Hands] literally swollen, literally deformed [and] permanently warped," he explains.

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