http://stormyscorner.com/2009/11/yeah-questions.html Mon, 21 May 2012 13:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://stormyscorner.com/2009/11/yeah-questions.html/comment-page-1#comment-291 stormy Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:45:26 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/2009/11/yeah-questions.html#comment-291 Hopefully getting more people involved in free software will enable them to work directly on projects and get paid directly for their work from the Western companies consuming their code. They can also more easily create their own hardware/software solutions, assuming their government enables them to start a business easily. Hopefully getting more people involved in free software will enable them to work directly on projects and get paid directly for their work from the Western companies consuming their code.
They can also more easily create their own hardware/software solutions, assuming their government enables them to start a business easily.

]]> http://stormyscorner.com/2009/11/yeah-questions.html/comment-page-1#comment-290 unstoppable_honesty Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:13:18 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/2009/11/yeah-questions.html#comment-290 in response to: Stormy [Moderator] 1 month ago It's amazing. I especially liked the stat about how: * paying for things via mobile phones * enabled people to have savings account * which enabled them to have an emergency stash * which increased their income over all as emergencies didn't decimate them I think the study was from Kenya. <a href="http://opensourcetogo.blogspot.com/2009/10/communication-driven-economy.html#disqus_thread" rel="nofollow">http://opensourcetogo.blogspot.com/2009/10/communication-driven-economy.html#disqus_thread</a> : Whether it's your cherished iPhone, Nokia cell phone or Dell keyboard, it was likely made and assembled in Asia by workers who have few rights, and often toil under sweatshop-like conditions, activists say. By the time a gadget reaches Apple's flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York City or any other U.S. retailer, it may have passed through the hands of a heavily indebted Filipina migrant worker on the graveyard shift in Taiwan, a Taiwanese "quality control" worker who'll soon be fired without warning, and a young Chinese worker clocking 80-hour weeks on a final assembly line, at less than a dollar an hour. <a href="http://www.truthout.org/1122095" rel="nofollow">http://www.truthout.org/1122095</a> in response to:
Stormy [Moderator] 1 month ago
It’s amazing.
I especially liked the stat about how:
* paying for things via mobile phones
* enabled people to have savings account
* which enabled them to have an emergency stash
* which increased their income over all as emergencies didn’t decimate them
I think the study was from Kenya.
http://opensourcetogo.blogspot.com/2009/10/communication-driven-economy.html#disqus_thread
:
Whether it’s your cherished iPhone, Nokia cell phone or Dell keyboard, it was likely made and assembled in Asia by workers who have few rights, and often toil under sweatshop-like conditions, activists say.
By the time a gadget reaches Apple’s flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York City or any other U.S. retailer, it may have passed through the hands of a heavily indebted Filipina migrant worker on the graveyard shift in Taiwan, a Taiwanese “quality control” worker who’ll soon be fired without warning, and a young Chinese worker clocking 80-hour weeks on a final assembly line, at less than a dollar an hour.
http://www.truthout.org/1122095

]]> http://stormyscorner.com/2009/11/yeah-questions.html/comment-page-1#comment-289 James Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:34:35 +0000 http://stormyscorner.com/2009/11/yeah-questions.html#comment-289 There's such an innocence about those questions, it's almost funny. There’s such an innocence about those questions, it’s almost funny.

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