My Life in London's Houseboat Slums
Room...
Toilet...
LOTS OF PHOTOS AT THE SOURCE
LOTS OF PHOTOS AT THE SOURCE
LOTS OF PHOTOS AT THE SOURCE
LOTS OF PHOTOS AT THE SOURCE
LOTS OF PHOTOS AT THE SOURCE
NO PHOTOS OF THE NOTORIOUS SUICIDE NETS AT APPLE’S CHINA FACILITIES
Wow... no agenda on this “article” that doesn’t look horrible in the least. For a vacated property, a little mildew around the floor drain in the bathroom? And those rooms are hardly cramped... May not meet McMansion standards, but hardly is it what they want it to be portrayed as.
No!!! Say it ain’t so...I need a Xanax.
iMold.
I don’t see anything wrong with the overall setup, actually. Of course, these photos show it after it has fallen into disrepair.
Its pretty typical for young, migrant worker dorms in China. If you want to see “spartan” or “poor” - then look at the peasant farm-houses these kids are leaving behind.
These lodgings are provided low-cost or free with some very basic medical attention. There is some money deducted for “social security” (China has the same scam as we do) but otherwise, these workers don’t pay taxes. Its not expected to be a long-term gig. They work as many hours as possible, to save as much as possible to support their parents or children, buy a house back home, or start a business.
Like a heavy construction camp. You got a cot and ate like a King in the mess hall..
Meh.
I’ve lived in worse.
Better than I had in basic training...
And Trump says he will force Apple to make the iPhone in the US. Trump really doesn’t get it.
Reminds me of when I got drafted 52 years ago.
Every one a volunteer. Every one improved their status in life by having these jobs. Air conditioning in every room and a hundred hungry folks waiting to fill your slot if you are done with it.
You dont even want to see what my basic training barracks looked like.
Much as I love to bash Apple, I have to say this is sensationalism. For example:
“Workers operated water taps by pedalling and squatting toilet cubicles positioned over open sewerage drains...”
This is par for the course in China. They don’t use toilets, they squat. They don’t have electric pumps on all their water lines, so you may need to pump manually to get it going. Basically, they have industrialization in the private sector, but when it comes to the public or domestic sectors they are somewhere in between a medieval agrarian nation and a modern one.
Too bad they separated the boys from the girls. At least when I lived in cockroach infested $80/month squalor in college over “Viva Zapata’s” I had hope....
Change the title to Microsoft products and you’ll hear a different tune being sung here.
Frankly, it sounds like more fun to hang them by their scrotums.
LOL.
This is China, not Apple. If you have ever seen older pictures of Chinese cities, the roads are filled with pedestrians and bicycles, not cars. How did people get around in huge cities? Well for the most part the cities were built to accomodate this. Every large employer had a dormatory built right next to it. Then right next to that, a 7-11 sized grocery store, and other small shops. People could get their basic needs within a short walk.
Apple, the extreme left wing liberal company that BRAGS about billions of dollars in profits, and hundreds of billions in cash, claims they cannot afford to use American workers to manufacture the products they sell to Americans, while using cheap Chinese labor instead.
That isn’t trade, that is a ripoff.