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Vivtek on Sept 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Journalist goes undercover making the iPhone 5 at ...

If, as you say, they're impoverished, how free is their will?

Are they 90% free? 50%?

mseebach on Sept 12, 2012 | [–]

100%. It's not the number or attractiveness of options that make you unfree, it's the guy with the rifle who shoots you if you "quit".

philwelch on Sept 12, 2012 | [–]

Poverty is the state of nature.

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