Much of the media has led on Apple's founder, Steve Jobs, death from cancer. SOYMB, however, would like to offer its condolences to the many workers employed by Foxconn, who make the iPhones and iPads and have paid the price of alienated labour (which we have posted upon).
Some 18 employees attempted to kill themselves and 14 were successful in 2010. Steve Jobs will no doubt be eulogised for his contribution to technology. But the people who committed suicide at the plants which made his products are all unknown by name, their deaths simply accepted as an unfortunate but acceptable by-product of capitalism.
As Time magazine writes " To support one man's ability to live a truly amazing life - to fulfill his dreams and fire our own - required the hard and mechanical labor of so many anonymous souls whom no one will commemorate when they pass."
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