I blogged before about Mike Daisey’s one-man show, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, about Apple’s factories in Shenzhen, China, and the horrible work conditions that make possible our amazing and inexpensive consumer electronics. Daisey shares a generous portion of his performance on an episode of This American Life. (Embedding isn’t working for me; go here to listen.)

But is the existence of a terrible sweatshop still a positive step in impoverished corners of the globe? Listen to the provocative post-performance analysis by Ira Glass and company.