twryst:

twryst:

lezzyharpy:

femoids:

femoids:

apple: we represent disabled people uwu

apple: literally spreads toxic illness in its factories that puts people in the hospital

this is the rest of silicon valley as well. it’s not progressive. end capitalism pleasepleaseple

corporations can straight up admit to illegally putting their workers in (more) danger without proper protective equipment for dangerous chemicals with nothing more than a slap on the hand, if that. as long as profit motive exists, these abuses will always happen, regardless of what regulations you place on companies. the only way to get rid of these abuses is to get rid of the system that values shareholder dividends over peoples lives

Behind every ‘financially successful company’, there’s a long history of these events. That’s how they get to be successful- you damn well know each decision like this ‘saved them money’. That’s the calculus they’re doing every single step of the way. How superficially cushy the jobs are for the engineers culturally held in high esteem does not drive the ‘success’ of these companies- when you see the huge profit they post quarterly, it comes entirely from having cut corners & written off lives into desperation-till-death like this.

To be more specific:

The glitzy engineering offices “where the magic happens” are a sham, a marketing effort to sell the narrative of us engineers being some sort of genius savants that just spontaneously generate revolutionary new devices, implicitly selling that “this particular collection of hamsters in a fancy cage, when steered with the skilled hand of a Visionary, is the source of our boundless wealth.”

This is a myth, blatantly disproved by any list of what devices the companies actually ship & how much profit that device yields.

The soaring profits come from brutally minimizing our cost of production, while charging a premium price wholly divorced from any cost of production.

And brutally minimizing our cost of production means decisions like the above are made every single day. Over and over. In factories and warehouses. In selecting contractors or suppliers. In bidding city governments off each other to add exceptions to labor laws or safety standards. In bribing inspectors instead of fixing violations. In choosing countries or continents to build parts in. In choosing shipping orgs based purely off price. In automation (even partial) of any skilled labor in our production line.

In building nets to catch suicidal workers to prevent any interruptions in production, rather than improving worker’s quality of life, pay, hours, living conditions, or healthcare access.

Our primary role is to launder the profits that lives were sacrificed to get.

Any genuinely new devices we make are simply the cherry on top of that primary role. Most new device generation these days actually happens through acquisition anyway.