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>This "journalist" puts 1 single Chinese company under a microscope and incites people of first world nations to pick up their pitch forks and torches in protes
by mcantelon 14y ago
>This "journalist" puts 1 single Chinese company under a microscope and incites people of first world nations to pick up their pitch forks and torches in protest. Sure the conditions at Foxconn are terrible in comparison to my world view, but I'm not Chinese and my world view is irrelevant here.
Did you actually read the article? A Chinese journalist reporting in Chinese media would indicate that Foxconn's conditions are a concern to the Chinese "world view". Apple is the most profitable company in the world, yet they continue to choose a manufacturing partner that treats workers poorly.
- deelowe 14y agoI did and I didn't see anything that provided comparison with conditions in other Chinese factories. I have no way to know what's typical and what's not.
- zenocon 14y ago> However, the Chinese new agency Shanghai Evening Post has posted a pretty scathing review of the working conditions at Foxconn, and in particular the iPhone 5 production line. It doesn't make a lot of sense for Chinese media to do a hit piece for Chinese readers if the working conditions are the norm.
- PakG1 14y agoIt does make sense when Apple is involved and is a foreign company that makes oodles of cash. It then becomes a very political thing. Plus, normal factories are nowhere near Foxconn's scale, so they're usually not worth reporting on, unless you're doing an industry-wide report. Foxconn has captured the world's attention. The industry has not. What is flashy is what sells, always has.