> could someone explain this article to me? i just got a dye job, so i'm
> feeling pretty blonde.
>
> I want an iphone because i know something about steve jobs? I want to
> fuck him or something, is that it?
>
> there's a teeny tiny little job inside the iphone saying, in a high
> pitched voice, "buy me. buy me. use me use me. flick my screen baby!
> do it now. faster harder!"? is that it?
>
> i don't get any of this. the ceo of my company was once a sales rep.
> the guy before him, iirc, worked the printing press or some horse
> hockey. i don't know anything about severance packages... it's one of
> those companies that private and not likely to be caught up in this
> kind of thing. so?
>
> he's still grand defender fo the process whereby my labor is exploited
> to line the pockets of the share holders. where last year, they
> cleared 10% even in a downturn, forcing everyone to take a forced
> furlough, giving up a week's pay, amounting to a lousy - maybe -- 1
> million in savings. maybe.
>
> i don't see how using already exists design concepts is innovation. he
> was just able to take advantage of propsperity: the ability to choose
> based on appearance rather than necessity. if that hadn't been there -
> if people hadn't had disposable income, all the innovation in the
> world wouldn't have meant jack.
>
> really, this article just makes no sense.
>
> steve jobs was a typical CEO or rode people hard and put 'em away wet.
> end of story.
>
> even if steve jobs was a really nice guy providing people with hot
> lunches and free daycare and eldercare, and 15 week vacations, he
> would still have been doing so in order to exploit labor.
>
>> Hey Folks,
>>
>> Charlie Bertsch takes a curious look at Jobs' politics in today's
>> Souciant. According to Bertsch:
>>
>> "As satisfying as it might be to dismiss Jobs as just another
>> overpaid, self-aggrandizing capitalist, however, the stereotypes
>> being
>> circulated in the Occupy Wall Street campaign don’t fit him very
>> well.
>> He may have been a perfectionist who was overly hard on underlings.
>> He
>> may have been oblivious to the suffering inflicted on the people
>> building Apple products. But he was never the Old Boys’ Club sort of
>> CEO, golfing his way to a bigger severance package.
>>
>> In other words, though Jobs wasn’t ever a worker in the Marxist
>> sense,
>> he certainly worked the company’s products hard. Just as
>> significantly, he always advocated that the idea of a particular
>> piece
>> of technology — and the narratives into which it could be inserted —
>> were as important as the technology itself. That achievement alone
>> would be enough to confirm his reputation as a masterful proponent
>> of
>> innovation. Combine it with his special gift for making consumers
>> believe that they were buying him along with Apple products and you
>> end up with a figure who should inspire all of us to “think
>> different”
>> about the nexus of labor, technology and identity."
>>
>> To read the rest of the article:
>> http://souciant.com/2011/10/perfect-pitch/
>>
>> Best, Joel
>>
>>
>>
>> On Oct 7, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
>>
>>> Good piece. However, the FT article in question identifies Mr.
>>> Cook,
>>> not Mr. Jobs with adding Asian sweatshops to Apple's corporate
>>> structure. I wonder how much "charismatic leaders" like Jobs are
>>> involved in running companies they "lead." I suspect that in many
>>> cases they are just PR figureheads that give their companies a
>>> "human
>>> face" whereas the everyday business is run by unsavory grey
>>> eminences:
>>> beancounters and wage slave drivers.
>>>
>>> Wojtek
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Angelus Novus
>>> <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> "None of the eulogies for Steve Jobs are likely to have much to
>>>> say
>>>> about the people who made his fortune writes Liam Mac Uaid. Apple
>>>> has pioneered an aggressive anti-union strategy both in the
>>>> Chinese
>>>> factories that manufacture its gadgets and the Apple stores that
>>>> sell them. The company’s story is more one of hyper-exploitation
>>>> than affable geekery.
>>>>
>>>> "An article in the Financial Times (FT) lifted the lid on just how
>>>> Steve Jobs’ “readiness to humiliate and embarrass others” keeps
>>>> Silicon Valley psychologists busy restoring the mental health of
>>>> his former employees; how he has created a company which drives
>>>> hyper-exploited workers in Chinese factories to suicide and grinds
>>>> profits out of the university graduates who work in his shops
>>>> “counting their blessings to have a job”.
>>>>
>>>> "Just because Jobs and his company make the cutting edge
>>>> technological status symbols of the 21st century there is no
>>>> reason
>>>> they can’t resemble the mill owners of 19th century Manchester."
>>>>
>>>> Full article:
>>>> http://socialistresistance.org/2457/apples-rotten-core
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>> jschalit at gmail.com
>>
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