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To: Swordmaker

That isn’t saying much. The average exploitation costs $200 in pay a month. Once you get out of the city they live often in places smaller than one of our closets.


315 posted on 04/25/2015 8:01:22 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy
That isn’t saying much. The average exploitation costs $200 in pay a month. Once you get out of the city they live often in places smaller than one of our closets.

You really do not know what you are talking about. Out of the city is not in the equation. These factories are in cities with populations of over 13 million or more. Sorry, you are wrong. They aren't away from the city. Many of them do not live in the factory supplied housing, opting to live in apartments in the city, instead. The video's that were shown were often NOT associated with FoxConn, but with other factories where working conditions and pay were considerably lower. Apple has its own employees and staff monitoring working conditions and standards which are written into the contracts. Apple has actually cancelled two billion dollar contracts from companies that have violated those conditions and taken their businesses to companies who would meet those conditions even though it cost Apple more. These are facts, CA Guy.

There are so much mis-information spread about Apple's suppliers such as the myths about the suicides claimed to have happened at Apple factories assembling Apple iPads and iPhones. . . which simply never happened. The suicides, which occurred at a rate far below the Chinese national average, was at a factory assembling Microsoft X-boxes, HP computers, Sony Playstations, and Nokia phones, located over 150 miles away from the nearest factory making Apple products. But putting Apple in the headlines got far more press attention than the having a list of those companies which they reported about six paragraphs down in the articles.

Myths sells advertising much better than truth.

317 posted on 04/25/2015 12:16:22 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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