i'll be here when they give the pulitzers away

"No matter how complex your electronics are, they are assembled by thousands and thousands of tiny little fingers working in concert. And in those vast spaces, the only sound is the sound of bodies in constant, unending motion… I never met anyone who had even heard of an eight-hour shift. Everyone I talked to worked 12-hour shifts standard, and often much longer than that, 14 hours a day, 15 hours a day."

Mike Daisey, This American Life’s “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory”. Foxconn, a Chinese company, manufactures Apple iPhones and iPads.