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ReplyDelete"Free iTunes! Apple's hypocritical move to block competitors from accessing its software."
By Farhad Manjoo
Slate.com
Monday, Sept. 28, 2009
http://www.slate.com/id/2229856/?from=rss
Social change of the portable device industry is inevitable after Apple software prevented users of the Palm Pre from loading iTunes freely. This act will make the inequalities between the Apple and makers of the Palm Pre known by all in the technological industry in addition to those members of the proletariat that do not approve of the imbalance of technological power. Apple software is a propertied class that needs to distribute its wealth to workers, makers, and users of the Palm Pre and stop promoting their own self interests. In order to move beyond the capitalistic culture our society now covets, the bourgeois of Apple software should extend their USB ports to the proletariats that use and make the Palm Pre. Supply and demand for iTunes will not be affected by the addition of another software device. It is only the fear of relieving some of the effects of pauperization to other technological companies and the loss of Apple’s expansiveness that keeps Apple from opening iTunes access to everyone.
--Karl Marx
1.Bahamas
ReplyDelete2.Smuggling Europe's Waste to Poorer Countries
3.Elisabeth Rosenthal
4.The New York Times
5.September 27, 2009
6.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/science/earth/27waste.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Marx:
Exporting waste illegally to poor countries has become a vast and growing international business— our social interests are determined by our social position, and nothing else. Europe shows no care or sympathy for the children that often dismantle construction debris containing toxic chemicals or the fact that burning the excess garbage causes pollution in the air and water and releases heat-trapping gases, which is linked to global warming. Europe only cares about their self interest and what’s the easiest, cheapest way to dispose of their garbage, nobody cares about the poor countries. The European countries are seen as the ruling class or bourgeoisie, and the other countries, such as China, Indonesia, India, and Africa, are seen as the working class or proletariat. Because of these other countries economic status, it is hard to put a stop to the illegal garbage dumping, which is an illustration of social inequality. The poorer countries are the ones that are suffering while the ruling class smuggle their waste illegally overseas.