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In reply to the discussion: Fast-Food Strikes Expand Across U.S. to 50 Cities [View all]Mother Muckraker
(116 posts)Apple workers in China make $285 a month, living in a crowded dorm, eating a bare subsistence meal, 12 hour shifts doing physical labor.... Once you get stuck working there, you really have no options. About 11 more people at Foxconn have killed themselves since they installed suicide nets.
What options do people have working minimum wage? How will they further themselves if they want to go to college? How will they pay rent? How will they get healthcare? How will they support kids? Of course, jerkoff managers will say they are "free to leave", but you know and I know that the only other jobs out there are more minimum wage jobs, so the worker is not really free to leave. Yeah, they're slaves... and I haven't even mentioned the continuation of the house slave and field slave system in the modern world.