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I started checking how much electricity my electronics were consuming when I wasn't using them.
After all, many items in my house — my DVDs, my electronics, my kitchen gadgets — are sold online, which means that many of their details are sitting in a database somewhere.
Upon completion, a number is revealed: I discovered that 60 slaves work for me — cutting the tropical wood for my furniture, harvesting the Central Asian cotton in my shirts or mining the African precious metals used in my electronics.
I like to feel that I'm not attached to my electronics, but being the artistic director of this company, I usually check my e-mail, and I check our Facebook page.
And as I read the stories speculating about whether working conditions played some role in the bizarre rash of suicides, I considered my own ever-proliferating gadget cache, wondering if any of my electronics came from a Foxconn facility.
I washed my clothes every few weeks at a laundromat a short walk from my parking space, and I did all of my studying at the campus library, where I used the free Wi-Fi and charged up my electronics.
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