Personally i'd rather crunch into a live delicious apple.

Probably dozens of my friends will not like this story.

An article at Common Dreams sent me on a search to see what is going on at Apple. Unfortunately I did find evidence that the same story that has been going on in their China plant for years is still occurring. I remember reading about Apple probably a few years ago. They are disrespecting their workers with outrageous expectation in hours worked and terribly low wages compared to the company's own wealth. These wages in China might seem adequate; but apparently one Wall Street personality determined that this organization ought to lose their reputation, so he listed it as a stock to sell! That took courage and outrage on his part.

This analyst on Wall Street, Ronnie Moas, downgraded more than one stock offering on the basis of morality! Not only Apple, but Amazon and Phillip Morris! That is a courageous act that I admire, pointing out to us all that Wall Street values do not usually pay attention to the consequences to workers--and consumers-- of concentrating wealth in the hands of a few. The income of Apple for the past year apparently tops ten billion dollars. Meanwhile the workers have “reasonable hours” of working, i.e., sixty hours a week maximum, and earn two dollars per hour. Of course that is just what the workers expect there, I would guess. But one worker who “lied about his age” died recently, setting off some personal fireworks in the press. You can also find some Apple documents and stories that suggest they are busily covering up the truth.

The companies say deaths at the factories were not work related. But the company rules are for their employees to work a “maximum” of sixty hour weeks-- that would be time and a half in the USA. If they work that much they earn, at two entire dollars per hour, an annual income of $6,240 per year at most. Few American citizens would consider their housing arrangements likely suitable either I suspect. Meanwhile a huge bunch of us carry an i-pod or other Apple phone around with us; and rush out to the mall when an upgrade is available.

We are, after all, “entitled.”