How much is 23% savings worth to Americans? Modern day slavery? JON STEWART / FOXCONN

[Hotaru498]

The country has accepted market economy but the government is lack of supervision and The fucking communist party is full of corruption, and they just choose to ignore some social unfairness and favor their own interests. They limited the freedom of speech. Any information can pass through internet except criticizing governments, even dirty information can pass through internet.

People's faith and rights are ruined. The damn offspring of the former leaders controls the whole nation.

[menglizuihua1]

@Hotaru498 I am from CHINA. I have to say, you can say that again. I feel very sad about this reality. When all the people around world are crazy about the Apple, jut think about these people. They have to cost their life for a living.

[Thespadecaller]

I love most of what John Stewart does. However, this is too tragic to find the laughter amusing.

The sad fact is the racial bias that makes this routine amusing for some, would be viewed as a despicable if white American children were jumping off rooftops to their death. Would this comic news presentation be viewed if thirteen American children committed suicide to escape poor working conditions? I think not.

[TopTwenty99]

I know it's a really sad fact. But you do think that stop buying iPhone or moving manufacturing back to the US is the solution? No! You will only make these people's life even worse! They will lose their job and get no way to make any money! China is not like the US, which has most of the high-end, well-paid jobs in this world. For China, it is miserable. It is actually FAR away behind the US. Chinese people will appreciate you if you give them a chance to do some dirty work. I am serious!

[hastysky47]

@TopTwenty99 The s fact is caused by apple , apple should pay foxcom  more money. Unfortunately apple is greed.

[osbely]

The tables will be turned on north America soon enough. Sadly.

[DanFrederiksen]

isn't this how we treat students as well?

and in USA they often even gain a huge debt on top

[TheZoonib]

Your IPad was made with the bones of dead Chinese workers. Have a nice day and keep consuming.

[TheDuckseason]

Steve Jobs was an athiest....

[dansu92833]

John will buy iphone5 that is for sure.

[kuweiyuan]

Hypocrite.

[leedaomillz]

I love my iPad

[Letor12]

I had a hankering for an iPod. Glad I saw this video first.

Forget it. No way am I going to get one now.

I hope enough people start boycotting the products that are made this way. That's the only way to stop it.

If we buy something made there, we're saying "Yeah that's okay. Do it some more..."

[Zhangmengxing3236]

As a Chinese...I would have to say, I agree with u.

As people who live in this country, and we barely know about what is going on in this fucking factory. There has been many suicide reports, and the government and the medias are just want to cover the facts, pretent it's never happens.

Funny how other people knows more about our country than ourselves

[rycan84]

Seriously, What's the difference between this and prison?

[orochicc002]

@rycan84 beating stick is optional

[Punyuboy818]

Foxconn gets paid US$5 assembling an iPad, and how much profit can Apple make by selling one? What is right or wrong? It is definitely not funny. Makes you think.

[mugm2]

No Apple Products for me. It has to start somewhere.

[ItIsBadForU]

@mugm2 yeah but apple isn't alone. Almost all big companies exploit the cheap labor costs overseas. Well all public companies who have to make profit for their shareholders who don't care about the cost to our humanity only the profit they will get from exploitation..

[Afroxec]

Great video! Now if only we can send the subhuman tea partiers to foxconn so they can have a taste of libertarianism

[raydier1812]

Believe me, being in the prison of China is way worse than being a foxconn employee.

[mugm2]

@raydier1812 stupid comment.

[jimmyjoe0007]

Laugh it up, America! This is your children's future.

[slimstaple]

It amazes me how Americans flip out over our conditions and our rights. Our Government sticks their nose into every other countries business and tries to create a "fair way of life". YET... our government allows business to go on overseas... KNOWING this is going on?!?

Kill two birds with one stone by making big business buy American made product... CREATE JOBS (which will boost the American economy) and STOP CONTRIBUTING TO THIS TYPE OF TREATMENT...

[351cleavland]

@slimstaple Nice idea. It would create 2 birds with one stone. And, we have created so many laws in the past 40 years protecting workers and the environment, which cost more. Are people willing to give up an awesome sale at Harbor Freight and a short-term savings or spend more initially and have long-term security? One way perpetuates a worrisome way of life while the other may offer less in quantity but more in quality, wouldn't it? What would you want 20 years from now?

[ShatteredRoseX]

I felt bad for laughing....But I kept laughing....Because he made it sound so funny....

[slimstaple]

@ShatteredRoseX ... I get what you are saying... but, I'll be honest... if it wasn't for Stewart and Colbert being funny, I prolly wouldn't watch or learn the facts presented.

Can't be mad or feel bad for the delivery method if the point gets across to the masses.

[ShatteredRoseX]

@slimstaple True....I mean Im not angry at Jon....Hes a funny guy and I love watching him....I just thought I was a bad person for laughing at all of this....

[yumenyukuaile]

I visit the websites and post comments with the assistance of machine translation.

As Chinese workers, I am very difficult.

[nugglebunny81r]

so if they make 35 cents an hour and in america they would get 8dollars an hour and there is only a 20% price reduction? and for what? how the fuck is it okay for people to work themselves to death in a absolutely sad existence? more people should be angry about this. THIS ISN'T COMEDY this is people's lives! shame on all of us for just accepting this

[ElDiabloWhoppo]

@nugglebunny81r . Chinese business owners are making all the money clearly

That being said, if American business owners (like other country business owners) could get away with it they would without hesitation

[N3CR1S]

@nugglebunny81r Guess where apple and microsoft get their huge surplusses from*? I don't know how companies do in america, but had those been european companies the board and directors would probably be giving the money to themselfs.

I agree, it is horrible.

[ItIsBadForU]

@nugglebunny81r yeah it is real life and it is not funny. I think even kids should be educated about the issues of consumerism, since from what I've seen from the holiday shopping maddness, where desperate parents try to fill the wished of their kids by buying thighs like this cheap to please their kids when in reality the real price is our humanity.

[AColonDashSix]

@nugglebunny81r When life's a joke you might as well be a comedian.

[zthompson69]

@nugglebunny81r We will follow you, what have you been doing about it, exactly?

[hastysky47]

@nugglebunny81r The apple controls the profit rate.If all the products are manufactured by American workers, apple have to reduce the profit rate to stop the price of the products going mad.But in China, apple will ensure a high profit rate.

[nugglebunny81r]

i saw this on his show yesterday and it made me cry. how the fuck is this okay??????

[bethodman]

Siri sounds nothing like it

[enlajugada]

No dislikes..! Great!

[Pokeguyjai88]

@studyhistory2ctruth No you won't

[studyhistory2ctruth]

This is so fucked up. Im selling my Xbox asap.

[thiennguyenX2]

lmao jakoson7,

they are paid 31cents an hour and you're talking about them somehow getting access to medical rofl. 12 years for even talking about unions, hilarious.

This is so much worse than 1920 in that this is not 1920, this is fucking 2012. The world isn't some segregated place, 31cents an hour in a global economy essentially enslaves you.

59billion dollars for Foxconn in 08 in revenue, I'm sure it all went into costs and R&D and not into the pockets of the communists eh?

[globalfirm]

We need Globalfirm.

[Sabrinalynn81]

It's a good thing we've moved so far past slavery in America. Now they just ship our jobs to places that do. I guess that way the scavengers in charge of these corporations don't have to see it and if you can't see it it's not real.

[zammmerjammer]

I'm always really happy to hear people use that "well, at least they have jobs" argument. A job that is so horrific employees are KILLING THEMSELVES en masse.  Yeah, fuck you Western workers for imagining you can have employment AND human dignity.

[decillisphoto]

I know this is ment to be funny, which it is. But damn !! how depressing.

[thinktothemax]

thats so sad

[surgeyX]

This is hilarious. 

[duckmikenorrisjunior]

principle of civilization? do you know wht they thought was a principle of civilization not long time ago? Slavery

[jakoson7]

ppl always had to suffer for others' comfort, it's a principle of civilization. at least they have access to medical shit, compare this to industrial revolution pre 1920s