You can't say that, it takes all the needless moral outrage if you say its all just part of a system. Wait...

Nicely put....

Yeah, it really sucks.  Worst system ever, aside from all the others that have been tried.  We are so effing spoiled.

Time for Communism... oh wait you got shot by the socialist worker friendly government if you protested about your crushing poverty or about corruption in the government under that system. In fact the human rights abuses and poverty were much worse, just ask anyone in China.

Time for Anarchy, but then there are no human rights at all....

Capitalism is system based upon freedom, and the ability of people to come together and exchange goods within a free market with fair laws. It's really that simple. You don't like people being able to trade goods? What exactly is the other option, except the before mentioned communism where the government redistributes everything? If you don't like the system then you are free to join an agriculture commune somewhere and wash your hands of it. However I suspect you will do no such thing, instead you will enjoy the huge benefits of capitalism and the freedom of choice it offers you and continue to compose little blurbs about how corporations and capitalism are out to get people. Corporations seek profit and by doing so hugely benefit society as any economist will tell you. Western quality of life and technology would be far worse without them, and yes that includes you. If you think they are doing something wrong I suggest you become politically involved, your political rights don't end with voting.

Yes globalization allows some corporations to do immoral things but no they don't secretly control the government. America is still a democracy, corporations can only offer people products and you don't have to bloody buy their stuff. Unlike governments which can arrest you, and Obama who can apparently force you to buy health insurance.  

Complete ignorance is the only excuse for not finding this to be drive by journalism at it's worst.

Anything starting with this pile of journalistic shit work for a premise should be ignored for the tripe it is.

The suicide statistics they stated were evidence that it's an absolutely fucking wonderful place to work at.  The national average in China should put that north of 30 by that time in the year, closer to sixty if the workforce is largely male.

Tripe.

Our so called abuse of poor Chinese workers is a terrible thing to be doing though, it's so damned stupid...

Exporting all of our basic manufacturing over seas has just about run it's course.  Manufacturing was difficult to move, the software we replaced it with as it disappeared is not.  Envy the poor Chinese factory worker that lives twice as good as they would have ten years ago.  In another ten years, they might be in better shape than you are, on account of them actually producing something besides red ink.

Nothing is ever 'that simple'.

As a former philosophical anarchist who was converted to small-d democracy, I have to call bullshit here. There's a major difference between anarchy and chaos, and that difference is respect for other people. The reason I left anarchy for democracy is that our species is still too inclined to use organized violence as a political tool. The reason I wish I could still claim to be a philosophical anarchist is that no other political philosophy can match it in terms of respect for individual human beings.

Well said. The fact is that all the names for "different" political and economic systems were similarly invented. It's all an excuse/justification and intellectualization for man's sado-masochistic and hateful drives to use others to his own ends with disregard to the fact that everyone deserves to be treated equally and treated as you would be treated. The fact that one person, or a few people thought of or organized a place to virtually enslave others does not make them worthy of living like kings. It makes them worthy of a term of equal servitude under similar conditions.

In fact, that's why programs showing company CEO's spending time working alongside the average worker are popular... and why CNN's "Heroes" is so popular. They recognize that all are equal and show what everyone should be doing and the way to act toward "others".

Enough of "things" before people.

"אל תעמוד על דם רעך" - Do not stand idly by. It also (literally) means do not stand upon another's blood.

"ואהבת רעך כמוך" - Love others as you love yourself. The Golden Rule. Treat others as you would have them treat you, and do not treat them as you would not wish to be treated.

It's not at all as complex as others would have you believe.

Enough of all this savagery.

I didn't really mean that there would be complete chaos where we murder each other, I just meant that in anarchy there wouldn't really be legally enforced human rights.

Firstly a capitalist is a person who's business is making money through investments in business. The term in widely misused. Capitalists do not make products. Capitalists are not concerned with human rights. Capitalists are concerned with investing money and their profits. Capitalists are often immoral because they believe in an Ayn Rand way of life where I comes first and there are no consequences. Laissez-faire capitalism. There is no "State", everyone is for themselves. The Chinese for example are not true capitalists because of their totalitarian/communist government.

In the U.S.A. we have a system that is supposed to protect the people from predatory capitalists but "Money talks and bullshit walks" is the way it goes here.

While people have valid complaints about multinational companies abusing people in China there is a history of people in the U.S. being abused. Asbestos and tobacco are two good examples. Many lives ruined all for the sake of profit.

I have read (sorry, I can't remember where) that Apple uses Foxconn for manufacturing their products because... (paraphrasing) "If say, we are about to go into production of the iPhone 5 and we have only just now decided to add a new feature to the phone... Foxconn would most likely be able to put that new feature into production in about 6 weeks.  Whereas, if that same scenario were played out in by a manufacturer in the U.S. then, it would take 6 months to a year to put that same new feature into production.  Production changes in the U.S. take longer to put into action, due to expensive equipment changes, hiring personnel, and regulations imposed on the manufacturing process."

Some of those regulations that are supposed to protect the workers but they won't let that get into the way of making a quick buck. They care more about profits than the safety of the workers in China. They care more about the profits than having the work done in the U.S.A.

So in other words an 1Phone made in China by people who are little more than slaves will cost $40.00 US would cost, if made in the US of A, $400.00 USD? Yeah ... I could see where they might want to pay the little bit but still charge the 'Made in USA' price. Mooney ... money ... money.

Actually a 20 min piece on Canadian news last night as well.

There are 13 major US companies on that list of the top 25 companies at FoxConn. After serving this country for 22 years in the military, to see it end up like this is totally embarrassing. I am now ashamed to be an American, and if I could afford it I would leave today.