Atmospheric CO2 levels accelerate upwards

Re:Atmospheric CO2 levels accelerate upwards by obstinate on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @07:39AM (#14086734)

What does that have to do with anything? I build search engines, but cannot afford to buy one. I don't count this as a great injustice.

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Re:Atmospheric CO2 levels accelerate upwards by qplex on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @07:46AM (#14086774)

Probably because you can use a search engine without owning one.

And yes, I would definetly say it's a problem if workers in a factory can not afford the goods the factory produces.

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Re:Atmospheric CO2 levels accelerate upwards by dagw on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @07:51AM (#14086796)

I would definetly say it's a problem if workers in a factory can not afford the goods the factory produces

Even if the factory is producing high end sports cars or precision engineered industrial machinery?

For that matter I doubt even the CEO of Boeing could afford most of the 'goods' made in his factories.

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Re:Atmospheric CO2 levels accelerate upwards by qplex on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @08:30AM (#14087045)

I get your point.

The CEO of Boeing can probably still afford to take a flight on a plane made by his company, and that probably is true of an average worker of a Boeing factory as well.

So let me rephrase: if people working in a factory can only afford the very basic necessities and the actual goods the factory produces get shipped to the other side of the globe (and waste gets left behind), something is not right.

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Re:Atmospheric CO2 levels accelerate upwards by dagw on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @09:07AM (#14087316)

But certainly in the case of the iPhone a lot of them do get bought locally. Perhaps not by Foxconn factory floor workers, but certainly by a lot of other people in China.

I mean I kind of get the point you are trying to make, but Foxconn and iPhones aren't really a good example of that.

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