I would consider buying if it becomes available in my country
tlee - 11 years ago
I have no qualms about buying a cheap phone.
State budget cuts slashed my salary from$52/K to $20/K. All in a move to save money and to weed out non-minority people and workers OVER age 50. My salary cut occurred this year, the VERY year I turn 50.
Complained to every agency imaginable but the proof is on me. The fact that no ONE over 50 has been hired and NO ONE over 50 is allowed health insurance, even though it is compulsory for an agency that receives funding through the DHHS and has over 500 employees, seem irrelevant.
Employers don't give a flip about decades long employees who have college degrees, it's youth that matters.
I am forced to survive, no make that subsist on $32/K LESS. I live in small house 24' x 32' my dh and I built ourselves in 1980 for $6,500. My expenses are minimal . We live on vegan/vegetarian diet, don't travel or go on social outings, don't buy excessive amounts of clothing.
I have paid taxes and into Social Security since 1972. The cost of everything here where we live ,in coastal NC, is exorbitant. Property taxes, insurance, food, gas , electricity, even land lines are higher than in metroploitan areas. We didn't ask for millions of people to descend upon this area. Most of the people we knew as friends have had to move on due to the cost of living.
Now approaching our twilight years we are being systematically impoverished to drive us out of the land the devlopers and well heeled see as their right to own.
How dare anyone ask me to grieve over someone in a third world country mkaing a subsistance wage? Subsistance wages are here and now for those of us over 50. Our jobs are being taken, covertly and given to younger people, less qualified people, less experienced people because it is a grotesque sin to be over 50 and dare to own anything or to have a job that a younger person wants or can benefit from!
I sure don't see younger people crying for social justice and equality for those of us over 50. We are suppose to surrender all on the altar of youth, shut the f-ck up and disappear. As we said during the Vietnam protests :
Most people are not tuned in to the various negative effects of current mobile device offerings. A lot of people would care if they understood the issues with current proprietary devices. We need Fairphone stateside. It's simply a matter of getting the word out.
Gary Paudler - 11 years ago
If you work for an environmental organization then you must focus all your efforts on that organization's specific goal - email appeals for donations. For the rest of us care for the environment and concern for social justice are both (all) part of accepting responsibility for our role in the broad community. When, in some years, we suffer the worst effects of messing-up our climate, we will be better able to adapt if we have built every form of equality and justice into our society. Yeah, good luck with that.
Working conditions are interconnected to the way the environment is treated. If you stiff your employees, you're more likely to rape the environment and see just the dollars for stock holders then be accountable for people, water sources, air quality, land....
grace schrafft - 11 years ago
Why only Europeans and not us? could it be that this country protects unfairness?
I would consider buying if it becomes available in my country
I have no qualms about buying a cheap phone.
State budget cuts slashed my salary from$52/K to $20/K. All in a move to save money and to weed out non-minority people and workers OVER age 50. My salary cut occurred this year, the VERY year I turn 50.
Complained to every agency imaginable but the proof is on me. The fact that no ONE over 50 has been hired and NO ONE over 50 is allowed health insurance, even though it is compulsory for an agency that receives funding through the DHHS and has over 500 employees, seem irrelevant.
Employers don't give a flip about decades long employees who have college degrees, it's youth that matters.
I am forced to survive, no make that subsist on $32/K LESS. I live in small house 24' x 32' my dh and I built ourselves in 1980 for $6,500. My expenses are minimal . We live on vegan/vegetarian diet, don't travel or go on social outings, don't buy excessive amounts of clothing.
I have paid taxes and into Social Security since 1972. The cost of everything here where we live ,in coastal NC, is exorbitant. Property taxes, insurance, food, gas , electricity, even land lines are higher than in metroploitan areas. We didn't ask for millions of people to descend upon this area. Most of the people we knew as friends have had to move on due to the cost of living.
Now approaching our twilight years we are being systematically impoverished to drive us out of the land the devlopers and well heeled see as their right to own.
How dare anyone ask me to grieve over someone in a third world country mkaing a subsistance wage? Subsistance wages are here and now for those of us over 50. Our jobs are being taken, covertly and given to younger people, less qualified people, less experienced people because it is a grotesque sin to be over 50 and dare to own anything or to have a job that a younger person wants or can benefit from!
I sure don't see younger people crying for social justice and equality for those of us over 50. We are suppose to surrender all on the altar of youth, shut the f-ck up and disappear. As we said during the Vietnam protests :
H-LL NO! WE WON'T GO!
Most people are not tuned in to the various negative effects of current mobile device offerings. A lot of people would care if they understood the issues with current proprietary devices. We need Fairphone stateside. It's simply a matter of getting the word out.
If you work for an environmental organization then you must focus all your efforts on that organization's specific goal - email appeals for donations. For the rest of us care for the environment and concern for social justice are both (all) part of accepting responsibility for our role in the broad community. When, in some years, we suffer the worst effects of messing-up our climate, we will be better able to adapt if we have built every form of equality and justice into our society. Yeah, good luck with that.
Working conditions are interconnected to the way the environment is treated. If you stiff your employees, you're more likely to rape the environment and see just the dollars for stock holders then be accountable for people, water sources, air quality, land....
Why only Europeans and not us? could it be that this country protects unfairness?