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Spreading FUD, WayneDuPreeShow? The workers in the companies that Apple contracts with in China are paid MORE than the prevailing factory wages paid by other consumer electronics companies who contract with the same companies. In fact, given the economy of China, the value of the wages Apple pays are the equivalent of a good factory wage in the USA. The workers at these assembly plants are not slaves, but people who actually queue by the thousands to apply for every opening on assembly lines for Apple because Apple lines pay far better than say Microsoft, Sony, Lenovo, Samsung, HP, etc. It is the workers' CHOICE to work there and earn good wages instead of earning two to three times less working on some other CE company's assembly project other than Apple's. As for conditions, independent auditors (NOT China Labor Watch, a New York based money raising organization that does ZERO to help Chinese workers which has been caught in fraud), have investigated and found working conditions are far better than average at FoxConn. — PING!

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