It's fuedalism with corporate power and the MSM as the church to keep the people in check.

The idea of affluence for the masses - the 1% can't stand that. Only they are worthy of having nice things & leisure time. The rest of us should live in squalor & work our entire lives.

They have lost their humanity.

in the future it could be .... "brother can you spare a couple of bucks"

Is similar....

http://www.globallabourrights.org/reports?id=0651

This psychopath - Romney - either:

1. Is aware of this stuff and doesn't give a shit, or
2. Isn't aware of it because he's THAT out of touch

Either way, it's INEXCUSABLE.

7 times 12 is 84. If they make $83.16 for an 84 hour workweek, then I would say their hourly wage is only 78.45 cents an hour.

Because, by my value system, they SHOULD be getting paid time and a half for every hour over 40. Thus an 84 hour workweek would mean 106 hours of pay. (44 times 1.5, plus 40).

Somebody may have already done that to calculate the 99 cents.

My assumption is they are paid a straight 99 cents per hour regardless of their total weekly hours. So yes, $83.16.

My wife is Chinese and is working there while we wait on the American visa to be approved, she gets paid for showing up to work, not based on hours or anything. She frequently has take-home work in addition to what she does at the company. I suppose it's lucky she works a desk job instead of a factory job, but it's still a bad situation no matter what type of job it is, especially if you are a female. But you look at the managers and CEOs and they live just like the ones in the USA. This is what is wrong with free-market capitalism, but guys like Romney just adore this stuff.

only that I feel that they SHOULD have it, and IF they did have it, as they should, that makes the hourly rate even lower. That's how I would calculate the hourly wage of somebody who worked 84 hours a week and only got paid $83.16, not as if they were paid 99 cents an hour, but rather that they are paid the lower number.

and pronto!

99 cents is equivalent to around 6 Chinese Renminbi. So a 12 hour workday makes you around 72 RMB. In one month, assuming you work every single day for 12 hours, you make around 2100 RMB. Rent for a cheap apartment is around 600 RMB if you are lucky, but it's usually much more due to the housing situation. A diet low in meat and overall nutritional value will cost you around 30 RMB per day. Let's say you splurge a couple of times per month and end up spending 1000 RMB on food overall. Utilities may cost 200 RMB per month. Since you work at one of these factories, you're probably a girl, and girls in China enjoy shopping just as much as American girls. So working 12 hours EVERY day leaves you 300 RMB, or around $50 to shop or for other discretionary spending.

they're too exhausted to fight those conditions.