You need the system and the system needs you.
Just read today’s business times and there was this article on page 12 “OLD PCs choke China’s e-waste capital”
In short, copper and gold found in e-waste are highly valuable and numerous e-waste are being transported to china through underground ways. And the workers earn about US $3 dollars a day and there are around 30000 e-waste workers in china. The workers are very badly protected against these waste and 9 out of 10 in GuiYu are suffering from problems with their skin, nervous, respiratory or digestive systems.
After the valuable materials are taken out, the leftovers are dumped, burnt and some even block roads. Imagine how big it is to even block a road. China did try to churn out these activities but the business was too lucrative and the only thing materialized was that the locals are more vigilant to reporters and the authorities. Reporters and green activist are not welcomed.
A car carrying reuters journalist to GuiYu was stopped on the outskirts of town by stocky men traveling in a car with blacked out windows who threatened to beat up the driver. Local businessmen fear critical reports, for it the government cracks down and the waste stops coming, the money will stop flowing too.
Arn we just like them, we go tru the Singapore system, fighting for education, fighting for job, these few days fighting for HDB flats even, as much as we need the system, the system needs us to thrive.
And how many times did someone or anyone wanted to break out of it and get suck right back in the next moment.
And your best bet to get out? “GET RICH OR DIE TRYING”
posted by ikaira @ 10:15 AM,
