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It’s all Apple all the time these days: "astounding" earnings reports in the news on Jan. 25, lingering shots of Steve Jobs’ wid
It’s all Apple all the time these days: "astounding" earnings reports in the news on Jan. 25, lingering shots of Steve Jobs’ wid
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2013-12-04
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It’s all Apple all the time these days: "astounding" earnings reports in the news on Jan. 25, lingering shots of Steve Jobs’ widow Laurene sitting near the First Lady and, of course, ever since his death in October, universal references to Jobs himself in any writing or speech aimed at promoting creativity or ingenuity or an all-American, against-all-odds model of success.
However, New York Times articles this week spoke of a darker reality behind the glowing Apple story: the "millions of human machines," as the Times’ Charles Duhigg and David Barboza put it, in China who are now laboring 12 hours a day, six days a week to maintain the company’s amazing rate of growth.
They live in dormitories where they can be called to their jobs anytime and often work double shifts in highly unsafe conditions. They’re willing to do all it takes. "It isn’t just that workers are cheaper abroad," Duhigg wrote. "Rather, Apple’s executives believe the vast scale of overseas factories as well as the flexibility, diligence and expertise of foreign workers have so outpaced their American counterparts that ’Made in the U.S.A.’ is no longer a viable option for most Apple products."
The Times stories raised very serious questions about not only Apple or the many other companies that similarly rely on overseas labor to support their growth and flood the world with cheap products, but the human cost of the growth model itself that has allowed Apple to thrive. It’s a model of growth, all too unquestioned in the U.S., that demands endless quality-of-life sacrifices in the service of productivity and profit. By quality of life, I mean good relationships with friends and family and having the time and the physical and emotional availability to invest in friends and family.
Yet American workers have been headed in the opposite direction for decades. Working hours have expanded to the point where successful professionals now consider the traditional 40-hour workweek a "part-time" job. Vacation time has been shrinking. In the current downturn, the employed are too scared of losing work to take time off. The pressure to be superproductive, ever willing, and always available has never been greater. But we should call into question the direction we’re headed and ask whether chasing the dream of growth has already turned into a nightmare. It’s up to the rest of us now to decide what to make of Steve Jobs’ legacy.
Which of the following statements about the workers is true?
选项
A、They are spending more time with the family.
B、They are enjoying a better quality of life.
C、They can find jobs more easily.
D、They have to work hard and overtime.
答案
D
解析
最后一段的重点内容是描述工人面临的现状:加班加点是家常便饭、休假缩短、不敢请假、要以厂为家。
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