It is not slave labor. It becomes that only because people see the wages of workers over seas and compare it to cost of living in the US, cost of living are not comparable.
Sorry, I do not want to $5,000 for my iPhone.
Spoken like a true, mindless occupy something doofus.
It need not be slave labor. If labor/cost of living is half of what it is in the union-controlled US, foreign labor can substantially increase their income/standard of living AND the consumer gets to afford the product.
To me, it's a win-win.
If "slave labor" offends you, don't buy one. See? Not complicated.
You sound like a union apologist. Reality is deeper than that.
In his career, Steve Jobs made considerable effort to build his products here. There's a long history of attempts but ultimately America's manufacturing base just isn't competitive enough. It's lazy and spartan.
Consider the iPhone, we now know when he rejected the scratchable plastic screen on his prototype in favor of glass. His directive could not be handled in the U.S. because American manufacturing moves at the speed of molasses and can't raise an army of 30,000 workers at the drop of a hat. China has that capacity. Asia has worked hard to build a competency in electronics manufacturing that we haven't cared to.
In the past 15 years, Jobs had many choice words for our "education" system and teacher unions as well.
what slave labor? The pay in china are excellent