Foxconn Reportedly Making PS4s With Forced Student Labor
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This, remember this is a country where they make counterfeit eggs for consumption.oldtaku said:
You would think companies would avoid a manufacturer like Foxconn which has to install suicide-prevention netting around its buildings.
Its faster to ask which goods are not manufactured at Foxconn, they have dozens of massive factories across the world from the Indian Subcontinent to South America but are concentrated in East Asia. They make parts as well as complete items and some of the big brands they make complete items for include Apple, Dell, Sony, Nokia, Nintendo, Microsoft, Acer, Amazon (Kindles & whatnot), Google, Hewlett Packard. Big telecoms companies like Huawei and Cisco have most of their hardware like phones, switchboards and servers made by them too.hickwarrior said:
They make around one-third to half of all consumer electronics in the world, almost everything has parts that have passed through Foxconn at some point.
Maybe this will show what a horrible person I am, but at this stage, it's practically safe to assume that your electronic goods are being made in conditions you'd rather they weren't. And when Foxconn's involved, poor-quality internships aren't the worst thing you could think about. So I really don't care. There's not shit I can do about it.
As someone above already mentioned, this doesn't seem particularly outlandish compared to where I live; where internships in many cases really are little more than excuses to exploit young people for cheap/free labour. The distinction here is that this behaviour is simply being taken to its blatant extreme.
If this kind of exploitation constitutes something 'bad' in China; then we're closing the gap on them in the race to the bottom.
Incidentally, is Foxconn by any chance the place that reportedly installed nets to prevent their workers from killing themselves?
If this kind of exploitation constitutes something 'bad' in China; then we're closing the gap on them in the race to the bottom.
Incidentally, is Foxconn by any chance the place that reportedly installed nets to prevent their workers from killing themselves?
An odd tale to be sure. Not quite sure where I sit on the issue. People bring up child labor; which is bad/wrong, but what about adults (young adults mind you) being put to work. True it's something they're not being paid for so yeah it's rather mean thing to do.
It seems mild in relative terms and should be clearly wrong. They're not learning anything and could wreck their entire careers if they tried to opt out.Arawn said:
The point is also that they are compelled to do so by their university / course, they literally cannot opt out of being exploited for their time, at least our frequently exploitative internships in the West aren't compulsory labour on unskilled manufacturing work.
So basically swear off using tech altogether or buy apple products. Guess I should pick my poison then and be read yto close my eyes...J Tyran said:
In less melodramatic news... Oh well, love my stuff too much to stop buying it.
