Talking about workers in the third world

"For The Win" is quite a frightening novel to me, especially when those "gold diggers" can actually exist in game world as machine. The novel describes how a group of gold farmers are collecting golds to benefit their own bosses, and if not follow the rules, they would be punished. Even for those who want to quit or form their worker unions can possibly got beaten up or even imprisoned. This book simply is linking the situation in the third world countries to those of the first world countries.

When looking through all the characters, we can assume that this fiction is not simply a teenage novel but a metaphor that depicts the real world situation. Mala and Matthew are both from the South East Asia and both have the great ability to gold farm but are strictly controlled by the higher status people. It metaphors the world of communism and dictatorship when powers are only shared by a few leaders. In addition, in the end the workers successfully live in a better lives is just like the people in China and India are living better life now than ever before.

This novel reminds me of the incident that happened in China this year. The Taiwanese Boss Terry Guo, who owns Foxconn Technology Group, one of the world biggest technology manufacture company, is famous for his strict discipline on workers. However, it is not the problem, the main problem was that thirteen people who worked under him committed suicide in the year of 2010. The news shocked the whole world because Foxconn Technology Group actually have a good working environment. Anaylists later discovered that it was that Chinese people today are not the people we used to think they are as before. Many of the new generations have their own life goals and making them to manufacture technological components and doing the same action over and over again can kill people. In another word, China's living standard is rising up enormously.

In reality there are a lot of workers who are earning so little just to do us a favor and make our lives easier. For example: Foxconn Technology Group is the world largest provider for the components of iPhone and iPads. So no matter how harsh it is to the workers, it is certain that we need these people to make our lives more convenient. But what will happen if everyone gets wealthy and no one is doing the job for us? do you think it is better? this is my question for you all.