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The Dark Side of Apple
The dark side of shiny Apple products
Even in this high-tech age, our most popular electronic devices are largely made by hand . . . MANY hands, as it turns out . . . hands that often are very over-worked, or so industry’s critics contend.
The world is in love with everything Apple . . . but here’s a question: Have you ever wondered where all that stuff gets made?
“While I was there, in May and June 2010, that’s really at the peak of when the suicides were happening with kind of terrible regularity,” he said, “where week after week, workers would go up onto the roofs of these buildings and throw themselves off the buildings.”
feel influence of technology more when Om comes back and begins to describe how he has been selected for a different kind of job.

They will immediately see the strong correlation between these articles and the play. The world is in love with everything Apple, yet many people have never questioned where and how all this hi-tech stuff gets made.  We’re all aware of outsourcing, but these articles point out the enormity of the problem.  Harvest poses a potent critique about how the “first” world cannibalizes the “third” world to fulfill its own desires, and these articles dramatically point out that this is exactly what Apple and other U.S. companies are doing on a regular basis.  

An apple with a bite taken out of it is Apple’s famous, recognized world-wide, logo. Apple’s first slogan was “Byte into an Apple.”  We like to “byte” into our Apple products, but Apple as a first world American corporation is cannibalizing bite by bite, third world donors for its bountiful “harvest.”
The dark side of shiny Apple products - CBS News
see also: The dark side of Apple: one man's monologue of misery
We in the US use third world through business to fulfill our hungers here.
‎mikedaisey.com/Mike_Daisey_TATESJ_transcript_2.0.pdf (hard copy) The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs