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Apple is one of the better ones in a sea of really bad. It's a low bar and certainly doesn't mean Apple is perfect. There might be some boutique phone makers wh
by matwood 6y ago
Apple is one of the better ones in a sea of really bad. It's a low bar and certainly doesn't mean Apple is perfect. There might be some boutique phone makers who claim to be better like Librem or Fairphone, but because they have fewer resources than the big players it's much harder for them to really know.
And if you dig into the mining side of the rare earths, worker conditions drop quickly.
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- ogre_codes 6y agoThis is the big problem. Few of these companies have the resources to verify their supply chain is free of abuse. The smaller companies likely have even less control over their supply chain.
- nomel 6y agoAnd supply chains aren’t necessarily constants. They can flip overnight when some distant vendor lights the contract on fire after the audit is complete by switching to a cheaper source, pocketing the difference. The most newsworthy instances often involve steel and catastrophic failure. People in this comment section saying that Apple executives should be held criminally liable have a very naive understanding of how long the tentacles of the supply chain go for anything made with more than a few raw materials.
- gscott 6y agoI believe, a good guess, this company is forced to take these laborers. The CCP calls the shots and if you own the company you have to go along or become one of the prisoners. The CCP even has the forced laborers in a parade. They have their hands on it from start to finish.