It's slave labor (or close to slave labor) during production (Cobalt Red, Dying for an iPhone are some good overview books on the matter, though you can dive in

It's slave labor (or close to slave labor) during production (Cobalt Red, Dying for an iPhone are some good overview books on the matter, though you can dive in further if you care), it's working against the "owner" of the device (who often doesn't actually have much in the way of access) during life, collecting behavioral surplus to sell to people who'd like to influence the owner (Zuboff's book on Surveillance Capitalism is a good read here, though the recent Means of Control book looking at the data flows from adtech into government is a useful one too), and it's burned in a third world country at end of life. Maybe digital consumer tech was a bad idea. At least the way we've gone about it.