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I'm an asshole, not a dick. Mind you. Apple can and is trying to improve the labor conditions at its supply chain. That's the whole point of its annul report.
by AllenKids 15y ago
I'm an asshole, not a dick. Mind you.
Apple can and is trying to improve the labor conditions at its supply chain. That's the whole point of its annul report. Foxconn is trying too. Those companies' primary goal is money, suicide workers cost a lot of money. Bad PR cost a lot of money.
What's impossible is suddenly western standard living, what's impossible is immediate strict labor law enforcement, what's impossible is working condition the same level as in the US.
- georgieporgie 15y agoWhat's impossible is suddenly western standard living Why do you, and others, keep bringing this up as if anyone asked for that?
- AllenKids 15y agoBecause in almost every article about Chinese Labor practice it was filled with details describing how horrible those dormitory livings were, using colorful words like slave-labor, soul-crushing etc. But to a lot of Chinese people, living in the complex certainly is not nice, but not unimaginably horrid either. I spent half of my college years with 7 other dudes in a room about 130 sqft, for example.
- georgieporgie 15y agoI think you need to read more about the conditions at Foxconn. In college, you weren't doing mind-numbing 12 - 16 hour shifts, the same actions day after day after day until your body failed. You weren't blacklisted for complaining to whoever ran the facility. You weren't maimed by machinery and subsequently completely ignored. There is a lot to be done that has absolutely nothing to do with a "western standard of living".