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Every company makes stuff in China, but not under the massive pressure that Apple's big-bang marketing puts them under, where workers are forced to deliver many
by scholia 11y ago
Every company makes stuff in China, but not under the massive pressure that Apple's big-bang marketing puts them under, where workers are forced to deliver many millions of devices in the shortest possible time.
It was Apple production lines that were driving suicides, and hence the nets round Foxconn dorms.
Pegatron has had Chinese workers doing 90-100 hours a week, sometimes more, just so Apple fanboys can get their fancy new toys without the massive loss of kudos that waiting a month would cost them.
http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/report/107 http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/report/107
And Apple workers do not get a living wage, according to China Labor Watch, even though -- as I stated correctly -- Apple is making a billion dollars a week in profits and has more than $200 billion in cash.
Of course, this isn't brutal capitalist exploitation.
Or if it is, well, who cares?