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> This person is trying to use media coverage of the iPhone 5 to help people directly. Good on them. Is it really helping them, though? Improving working cond
by aes256 14y ago
> This person is trying to use media coverage of the iPhone 5 to help people directly. Good on them.
Is it really helping them, though?
Improving working conditions and the wellbeing of employees costs money. Put pressure on Apple/Foxconn to spend more on labor in China and there'll come a point where they just move production elsewhere, leaving these Chinese people without any jobs.
Let's not forget these people are working in these factories voluntarily. The working conditions might be a bit crap, but the employees are choosing to endure them at their current wage.
- pm90 14y ago>Let's not forget these people are working in these factories voluntarily. The working conditions might be a bit crap, but the employees are choosing to endure them at their current wage. Because they have no choice. The alternative is starving. You have to understand that spreading awareness is the first step in actually solving this problem. That's how working conditions improved in the west, and that is how they'll improve in China.