iGore approves.
BFLR......
Wow! I’m impressed! In this country you can’t get a 13 yr old to take out the trash. j/k sorta
Waiting for the inevitable tie-in to Bain Capital...oh wait, Apple is a liberal darling...never mind. Please move on, nothing to see here.
So, Not only do all citizens of the world have American civil rights, but they are also covered by the OSHA regulations.
And their bosses are the same folks who regulate against domestic, small businesses here. Attack their precious zoning ordinances against small manufacturing operations in their sparsely populated counties, and do some research on who shows up to fight you.
iGore approves.
Seinfeld ping.
“Commie! Commie! Traitor to our country! This guy’s spreading propaganda.”
“Get your skinny *ss outta here!”
How about those NIKE shoes that Leroy rioted over last week.
$180 bucks for a pair of Chinese made sneakers that probably cost less than $5.00 to make.
Lots more profit in sneakers sold to idiots, than Ipad ever thought of making.
I heard the show. It is worth listening to. But I did notice that they hedged a little at the end. For instance, the beginning of the show seemed to imply that incredibly under-aged workers are common. But at the end the interviewer admitted that the ones he interviewed were all part of the same small group of friends who happened to come up to him.
And the alternatives for those teens are...?
From the expired TJIC.com:
Say that we had first contact with some super (economically) advanced aliens.
…and pretty soon they set up factories here.
…and I was offered a job in one of these factories, doing software engineering.
The pay is $400k/year.
The work week is 20 hours long.
The work environment is far better than I’m used to – great internal decoration, well tended plants, a zen-like water garden near my desk, massages every other day.
…and then left-wing alien “sentient being rights activists” started protesting, because I was being forced to work for less than a quarter of the prevailing wage in Alpha Centauri, and my work hours were twice as long as the legal norms in Alpha Centauri, and I didn’t have every mandatory benefits like “other other year off”, and “free AI musical composition mentoring”.
…and then left-wing alien “sentient being rights activists” wanted to make it illegal for my employer and I to contract with each other at mutually beneficial terms.
…then I would be rip shit that some elitist who had never visited me, or knew of my actual alternatives on the ground presumed to decide that I shouldn’t have this opportunity.
Which brings me to my core point: Chinese factory conditions may not be the exact cup of tea for a San Francisco graphic designer or a Connecticut non-profit ecologist grant writer … but they’re, by definition, better than all the other alternatives available to the Chinese workers (or the factories would find it impossible to staff up).
Butt out, clueless activists.
.. and some say that's bad?
Protectionists! Anti-free trade, anti-capitalist Commie!
Didn’t someone do a follow-up after Rebok was bullied into closing one of their plants overseas that employed 14 year old girls as workers?
And didn’t they find that over half of the formerly employed girls became prostitutes in order to survive?
So make your own value judgements — is it better for the children to experience the deplorable conditions described in the article? or to starve because they cannot find work? or to suffer the experience of being a prostitute in a third world country?
This article is a perfect example of propaganda by telling only part of the story to people who do not understand the economics of third world countries.
Kewl...that's why they're affordable! AND, the kids fortunate enough to get the work now understand what it means to 'work for a living'.
Looking at marketshare figure, I see that about twice as many Android phones are built by 13 year olds than iPhones.
Android uses 200% more child labor than iOS! :-)
I ain't got it.
I built houses I couldn't afford to live in either, but was grateful there were buyers who could.
Like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd managed to do to such buyers, the columnist wants to destroy the buyers of cell phones.
Thanks for posting it, it's a reminder to everyone that the socialist mindset is determined to destroy us in any way possible.
What’s worse, that or our 13 year olds sitting on their butts playing video games. The former will contribute to society, the latter is learning democratic parasitism. Frankly I’d be proud of the kids that work to live.