Apple's Sweatshops 2602
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ed That happens here too, but I suspect that the buttumption is that you are paid monthly, and don't get paid that month's pay. So you don't leave...
If you're at the low end, no. You get paid by the HOUR.
Rent costs about the same. Rent is usually more expensive than a mortgage for many properties.
God, you're an ignorant f***wit. Rural areas don't have jobs on your f***ing doorstep. The primary employer in the electronics industry in the Borders is Plexus (formerly Keltek). Many of their employees are from towns 20 miles away.
No. I'm not. I am comparing relative incomes and cost of living for low paid workers, one based on my own f***ing experiences of the region I live in and another based on many sources of data, contact with friends, and overall research on the other area.
Whereas you are merely convinced from the merest smattering of tabloid facts that you somehow know better than several hundred thousand Chinese workers that regardless off the conditions in these factories, consider them to be A BETTER OPTION than the rural idyll you seem to think living in China is.
do you even know what outstanding wages ARE? say you work 40hrs-week and get paid every other week. you work the...
$50 in China is NOT $50 in USA money. It's considerably more.
Yes, it is. Jesus f***, have you ANY experience of work at all?
And the same applies in the UK, USA or whatever. And you know what? I'm the f***ing grandson of the CFO of Britain's Nationalised Steel Industry. I have been brought up upper-clbutt, and have higher standards for myself than I hold for anyone else.
And yet, I would RATHER work, than go on welfare, even if that choice was working in a factory for 12 hours a day 6 days a week; especially if my earnings were guaranteed to be on top of my accommodation and food requirements.
Richard
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