Workers at the Foxconn factory might be getting abused as they make iPhones, but China’s elite care just as little as we do. Read here about riots that broke out during sales of the iPhone 4s. To make a long story short: rich people hired gangs to stand in line to make sure they would get the iPhone. Then, “conflict broke out between the rival gangs of scalpers. . .”
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