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Against the largest consumer/retail market in world? Not going to happen at the country level and risk reciprocal economic restrictions. Only way to get china
by adrr 6y ago
Against the largest consumer/retail market in world? Not going to happen at the country level and risk reciprocal economic restrictions.
Only way to get china to change is have people vote with their wallets and refuse to buy Chinese made stuff but at the end of the day people just don't care and just want cheap stuff.
If you gave someone a choice between $100 IPhone made by slave child labor and $1000 IPhone that was made humane conditions at fair wages, i am willing to bet more than 75% of people take the $100 IPhone.
- lern_too_spel 6y agoThe $1000 iPhone is made with slave labor. There are Korean and Taiwanese phones that are not made with slave labor.
- alisonkisk 6y agoBut we're actually buying $1000 slave iPhones with Apple shareholders getting the workers' wages.
- powerapple 6y agoI will buy the phone made by slave child labour because the only reason they exist is because economy, if they make money, at least their next generation can live a better life. It is not likely that without a factory they will study and go to college like you would think. The alternative to a bad choice may be a worse choice, not a better choice.
- powerapple 6y agoI have to state a fact that there is no child labour in China. Were their child labour before? Maybe some. My uncle left home when he was 14 to work in a factory. 40-50 years ago. Nowadays, the earliest age you can find real jobs is probably 16. So no, you don't find a child labour made iPhone. But if there is child labour somewhere, you either find a not-worst-case solution or you get him out of there. And you have to think from his point of view, understand his circumstances.