A postcard from Occupy Apple [Apple has accounts in the Cayman Islands?]

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Why a score of protestors have gathered on Fifth Avenue for a "sleepful demonstration"

  • Apple is a tax evader -- they have accounts in the Cayman Islands (Truth: Apple is openly lobbying for a tax holiday to avoid paying repatriation taxes on the billions it's earned overseas; the Cayman Island bit is news to me, and to Google News)
  • Apple employs slave labor in China (Uh, no)
  • The workers live in terrible conditions, with only one bathroom for 200 people (that sounds unlikely)
  • Eight Apple factory workers attempt suicide every week (Really? "Approximately," he says)

Published September 23, 2012

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