http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/26123/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/lefty-apple-pays-musicians-27-times-less-sweatshop-laborers <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Media ignore hypocrisy of mighty liberal tech company. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/joseph-rossell">Joseph Rossell</a> </div> </div> </div> <p dir="ltr">Left-wing Apple is huge and popular with the technorati. It became the world’s first company worth $700 billion, and was once rich enough to <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/03/25/krauthammer-apple-has-cash-buy-cyprus-and-rename-it-icyprus">buy the entire island of Cyprus</a>. But Apple said it can only afford to pay musicians pennies an hour for streaming their music, approximately 27 times less than Chinese factory workers earned making the Apple Watch.</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/lefty-apple-pays-musicians-27-times-less-sweatshop-laborers" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Business Art & Entertainment Business Media Apple China compensation Hypocrisy music Musicians pay singer streaming music sweatshop Taylor Swift Fri, 26 Jun 2015 13:49:57 +0000 julia.seymour 49236 at http://archive2.mrc.org