A co-worker recently got rid of his Lenovo laptop.
It would, suddenly and without warning, just randomly shut-down and reboot in the middle of the day as he was trying to do his work.
In the Soviet Gulags the workers used to deliberately sabotage export product as a plea for help, and to deny their captors future sales.
No doubt what happened here.
I joke about owning chinese stuff made by children in prison. I hear about “slave labor” but never actually see any photos or videos that I can trust. I just see it as a rumor.
German citizens saw, with their own eyes, the treatment of Jews, the removal from their homes, the shutdown of their businesses. I’m seeing none of that regarding chinese made goods.
So much is made by robots now that there is little need for much labor, forced or otherwise, regarding electronics.
I’m sitting here reading this article on a Lenovo computer that I bought in June, which was made in China (yeah, I just checked).
I don’t even know what to say...roughly 100 of my distant family perished in concentration camps, and now I am going to wonder for a long time if this computer was made by people in conditions that many not be terribly different from what some of my relatives went through.
This is on Lenovo and other manufacturers - they KNOW the conditions, they HAVE to know. Also, our “leaders” from years past who couldn’t run to do business with China fast enough. We really need to sanction companies and China itself until such time as they bring work standards and the treatment of people in general up to some reasonable standard of human rights.
At least my sneakers and LeBron James jersey are still ok right?
I don’t have a laptop. It doesn’t fit in my pocket.