You must listen to this. It’s a wonderfully told and revealing story and it makes you wish there was something you could do. But how? How can you change something that still seems so abstract? atari: An amazing This American Life piece by monologist Mike Daisey who visits Shenzhen province to report on a Foxconn plant that manufacturers the iPhone. Daisey speaks about the elegance of manufacturing on a massive scale juxtapose to employing teenagers and worker exposure to n-Hexane, a solution used for cleaning glass and a known neurotoxin. Best quote of the whole piece, “You don’t have to dream about some Sci-Fi dystopian Blade Runner 1984 bullshit, you can go to Shenzhen tomorrow. They’re making you’re crap that way today.” Part one is the monologue, part two deconstructs the part one. You must listen to this. It’s a wonderfully told and revealing story and it makes you wish there was something you could do. But how? How can you change something that still seems so abstract?

atari:

An amazing This American Life piece by monologist Mike Daisey who visits Shenzhen province to report on a Foxconn plant that manufacturers the iPhone. Daisey speaks about the elegance of manufacturing on a massive scale juxtapose to employing teenagers and worker exposure to n-Hexane, a solution used for cleaning glass and a known neurotoxin.

Best quote of the whole piece, “You don’t have to dream about some Sci-Fi dystopian Blade Runner 1984 bullshit, you can go to Shenzhen tomorrow. They’re making you’re crap that way today.”

Part one is the monologue, part two deconstructs the part one.

(Source: pcnofelt)

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    wonderfully told...wish there was something you could do. But how? How
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