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While I agree about the exploitation and breaking laws is bad, every single one of us in US is guilty of benefiting from slave labor. The article got me thinki

• brc 11y ago
  The dollar amount doesn't matter. What matters is if that income is sufficient to lead a decent life (shelter, food, leisure time, keeping children in education). Unless you know that, you can't comment on their salary. If hey he Chinese person is happy with their job, and you're happy with your iPhone, no real harm is being done. By putting a fantastic piece of hardware in your hand, at a pretty reasonable price, it allows you to be more productive, thus leaving you with more to spend on other purchases. It also enables an entire ecosystem, allowing other people to be productive, and so on. All these things are infinitely better than the Chinese worker not having that job, and you not having an iPhone.
  • dba7dba 11y ago
    "All these things are infinitely better than the Chinese worker not having that job, and you not having an iPhone." And all these manicurists would be doing something far worse working as nail-techs. And the Chinese person is not happy. There were tons of articles about suicides among the workers. I'm sure you read those? And the lower/middle class ladies paying $20 instead of $100 for a nail treatment has $80 to spend in the expensive city called NYC. So we agree going after the nail shops is frivilous?