Still wonder why the Chinese are gaining on the west? This long article, although it doesn't talk about things we don't already know or guess, is damning. iPhones, Sony PlayStations, HP and Dell computers — and lots more - are made under these same conditions, all in the pursuit of obscene profits.

The closest thing I can think of in the American workplace - currently - is at Vail, Colorado, where I understand they have erected dormitories for the workers that serve the monied - because the workers cannot afford to live in town otherwise.

I think that the road we are on leads to a great and permanent divide between the Have Nots and the Haves or, as Dubya would put it, the Haves and the Have Mores, and the Have Nots.

The Man Who Builds Our Toys, and Lots More