Idle: Four Injured In iPad Fight At Beijing Apple Store 194
fysdt writes "Four people were taken to hospital and a glass door smashed as a near-riot broke out at Beijing's top Apple store among crowds rushing to snap up the popular iPad 2 tablet computer, state press said Sunday. Angry consumers began rushing the store on Saturday afternoon after a 'foreign' Apple employee allegedly stepped into the crowd to push and beat people suspected of queue jumping, the Beijing News said."
god bless capitalism (Score:2, Informative)
And before you whine that iPad factories give better labour opportunities than the rice paddies, the same argument was used 200 years ago in England. Land use changes by country landlords, the increasing cost of living space and the goldrush mentality brought on by the success of initial migrants persuaded people into city slums: by the time they'd realised their fate a few years later, there was no way of moving back.
If capitalism were a success, we'd all be working fewer hours and adults would be living significantly longer. We are not and they are not.
Re:"Foreigners" beating up Chinese (Score:4, Informative)