And I was just walking around watching these players work with students -- assembling care packages for our wounded warriors, putting together some toiletry kits for the homeless here in Washington, D.

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There I found the U.S. median hourly wage rate for electrical and electronic equipment assemblers, which pretty accurately describes the work done by all those Foxconn workers assembling iPads.

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And one thing that seems to work well is writing very fast, often assembling stories from quotes found elsewhere.

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Do the math. 15 million x 9 hours. 135 million hours of work for U.S. electronic equipment assemblers assembling iPads for you and me.

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But, decades ago, when we moved from assembling widgets to assembling ideas, we never re-constructed our workspaces to optimize for our work as thinking beings.

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