Apple and Walmart had no trouble using slave labor and child labor to produce their products!
The same is true with Wal-Mart, K-Mart, etc. In fact, cheap products almost always equal cheap labor, because it’s a trend that plenty of businesses undertook some time ago, nowadays, it’s hard if you’re part of a discount store chain to be competitive without outsourcing cheap labor.
Hate Apple if that floats your boat, but at least try to do so based on facts rather than false rumors and crap urban legends. The false stories about Apple and "slave/child labor" have been repeatedly debunked here on FR, by people who know the facts, with real citations from real sources. You're welcome to your opinion, but trolling with unsourced, unsupported crap stories only undercuts your position. Your choice; just sayin'...
BTW, I don't know about Walmart, I'm only speaking of Apple.
“Apple and Walmart had no trouble using slave labor and child labor to produce their products!”
Too many people are blissfully unaware of this. Good Post.
The contract company that assembles Apple products in China pays the workers on the Apple assembly lines SEVEN TIMES the prevailing minimum wage in China. That is the equivalent of $51 per hour in the United States. In additions, workers are allowed to work up to 20 hours per week of overtime. . . and they want more. Every time openings occur to work on an Apple assembly jobs thousands of applicants line up to apply for each position. Workers have the option of living in company provided dormitories or off company property in their own apartments. Please tell me where the "slave labor" conditions and requirements are? I surely do not see them.
You've been listening to the propaganda that won't tell you the actual facts such as Mike Daisey's "Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs", which had to be retracted by NPR, when if was discovered that he had fabricated much of his evidence, including falsely translated interviews with workers, and used videos purported showing Apple assembly lines conditions that actually came from completely different companies. . . and you haven't been looking for the facts which are easily found for those who dig a bit to get beyond the mis-information storm.