How your iPhone was made

  • Thread starter Thread starter nullset
  • Start date Start date
N

nullset

Guest
It was made by peasants in Taiwan who after bad press recently (a string of numerous suicides at the factory) had their salary doubled to 293 dollars per month. Front line workers are beaten by management and forced to work excessive hours. Disturbing.

Couple thoughts

Should American companies be allowed to sell products here produced under such conditions?

If nrabroad
, what's the solution? No American wants to work in a factory for less than 20-30K or more per year (vs. $3600 per year above). Do you want to pay 10X more for all the products you buy?

Related article from the Associated Press:
 
Earnings are only one half of the equation...

Costs are the rabroad
her.

Whenever I hear shit like this I think "How the fuck am I supposed to know how much that pay is without knowing how much their cost of living is?"

People are fuckwits, that is the problem with society, no one thinks about things like this with their heads, they think with their hearts and your heart is fucking stupid.
 
The suicides are actually more than just Apple related. That entire area ishouse to about 3 or 4 big electronics names to include Microsoft.
 
Shenzhen, where the foxconn factory in question is in the Guangdong state of China. The communist party of china invited the tiawan fat cats to run the place.
 
So American companies and those who buy their products can abdicate any and all ethical responsibility and simply point to the labor laws in Taiwan?

By that logic, if there was a facility in Africa that employed true child slave labor (in accordance with local law) and some American company produced their products there, you would have no problem buying those products?
 
The cost of living (in terms of the salary in this factory vs the average salary for similar work in Taiwan) was addressed very early in the thread.

The work conditions were more the issue than the salary. The salary is only relevant to demonstrate why these companies outsource their manufacturing in the first place.
 
Back
Top