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I would expect one of the largest and most powerful companies in the world that is always virtue signaling to have their supply chain 100% slave free. That is n

• jedberg 6y ago
  It's a pretty big ask actually. They have 1000s of suppliers. I'm sure their vetting process is pretty thorough already, and then they act swiftly when they find out something was missed. Feel reasonable to me.
  • 9HZZRfNlpR 6y ago
    Instead of rambling about social justice better start vet your suppliers. People think Facebook should be responsible and vet what billions of people write online but somehow Apple the wealthiest company can't vet their damn supply chain? It has really come to this that these affluent privileged Silicon Valley tech bros rather have some 90 year old arrested for not wearing a mask while rambling about it on Twitter than have Apple vet their God damn suppliers.
• doctor_eval 6y ago
  The relationship between Apple and its suppliers is, ultimately, antagonistic. Apple wants to maximise units of work per dollar, their suppliers want to maximise dollars per unit of work. This creates an incentive for suppliers to cheat. This makes the situation way, way more complex than “Apple needs to audit its supply chain”. While true, any such audit is going to be actively sabotaged by the suppliers. This will include actions like hiding workers, forcing them to lie, or moving them strategically between production lines to hide the truth. I don’t mean to defend Apple here. I’m not sure what stops them creating their own businesses in China and Vietnam and elsewhere, where they directly hire the workers. Why does Apple outsource this stuff in the first place? Perhaps that’s the standard we should be holding them to.