Manila’s Connection to US Elections
By Rico, 7:07 am Wed Nov 5 2008 - Editorial - What Do You Think?
By the end of the day, we will probably know who the next US president is. Or not. In any case, as election time neared, features on election machine failures made the media rounds. Let’s step a year back—shortly before Technograph was put up—and see how the Philippine “craftsmanship” was highlighted by Wired Magazine.
The Manila factory, Teletech, was uncovered by producers working for Dan Rather Reports, which will be airing an hour-long special tonight on HDNet entitled The Trouble with Touch Screens. The program discloses that workers at the Manila sweatshop earn between $2.15 and $2.50 a day assembling ES&S machines, and that the touch-screens had a high failure rate and received little to no testing before being sent back to the states and sold to counties.
The entire article, with links to previous coverage, is available here. Here’s to hoping that any negative impression the article produced were limited to ES&S’ cost-cutting, rather than the shoddy workmanship of the Filipino factory workers. After all, you always get what you pay for.
(image from blog.wired.com)
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