Meet Terry Gou. AKA Terry Tai-Ming Gou. AKA Terry Guo. (Interestingly, his name has the same pronunciation as dog.)
Terry is the Taiwanese tycoon head of Hon Hai Precision. Hon Hai Precision owns Foxconn.
Foxconn is the Chinese electronics manufacturer whose working conditions are so bleak, so hopeless, that it had to install safety nets around the building to catch employees who would rather hurl themselves into oblivion than face another day forced to make our electronic gadgets for pennies an hour.
Foxconn makes the Amazon Kindle, Apple's iPad and iPhone, Sony's PlayStation 3, Microsoft' s Xbox 360 and and Nintendo's Wii.
Recently, Gou said:
"Hon Hai has a workforce of over one million worldwide and as human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache."
I'd like to suggest, if Mr. Gou finds his slave labor sweatshop corporation so headachey, perhaps he could retire.
It's interesting how similar the views of labor are between Chinese communists and American capitalists.
Stay tuned for the rationalization of Gou's comments from American e-gadget apologists, who are always so quick to defend Foxconn.
Baaaah. Baaaah.
Animals, indeed.
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