Did you know that if you make more that fifty dollars per day, you are in the top 20 percent of wage earners on the entire planet?
Think about that little nugget of information the next time you see a commercial featuring Americans treating thousand-dollar phones like they are Bic lighters; dropping them, putting them through the laundry, etc. A $1000 iPhone is more than two months' salary for eighty percent of the Earth's population. It's a regularly upgraded, disposable item for the target audience of this ad.
And those people who make less than fifty dollars per day? Well, some of them include the children who put in 12-hour shifts assembling phones like these. Fortunately, they'll never see this ad. I'm sure the wounds are painful enough without having salt sprinkled into them.
This sort of thing is why to me, the Platonic ideal of the businessman is a drug pusher.
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