Remains of the Day: Money money money

19.05.2011

Foxconn's shareholders attempted to meet this week to discuss whatever it is electronic part manufacturing giants meet about, but instead had to suffer through the sight of protesters lying face down outside the meeting. The protestors demand better wages and overall treatment for Foxconn employees. "We're not going to take these conditions lying down," the protestors didn't say. Because they were lying down. And speak Chinese.

(9 to 5 Mac)

If you average Apple's total profit across every individual employee, each one churns out a spectacularly high amount of money for the company. Of course, I'm guessing that some of the highest-ranking individuals on, say, the iPad team generate more value than the folks on the Stickies team, but the point is this: Apple essentially prints money. Too bad there's no app for .