To be sure, Apple isn't the first company to exploit a developing society's cheap labor. That's a tradition that proudly goes back hundreds of years, arguably to the first triangle trades, . Maybe things have come full circle for China, and this is just another version of . But there's something insidious about a near-perfect system where the only factor beyond design is the human one. (Especially when those humans decide to jump off buildings.)U.S. President Barack Obama greets U.S. Supreme Court Justices Anthony Kennedy (C) and Ruth Bader Ginsburg (R) prior to his State of the Union address, January 24, 2012. REUTERS/Saul Loeb/Pool