Foxconn Reportedly Making PS4s With Forced Student Labor

[BrownGaijin]

For some reason, after having finished reading the article, I envisioned a typical American High School kid getting frustrated at their job in a burger joint, and spitting into a customer's food.

Can't imagine what the interns would do to a PS 4.

 

[Lightknight]

Modern slavery and how it is tolerated in the 1st world is such a fascinating research subject. All anyone ever cares about is their own indulgence. Greed is such a powerful tool. Too bad there's not much I can do about it.

Just yet.

Not slavery. Article title is misleading. Multiple people signed on to this college knowing that it had a required work study component. They're just upset that it isn't related to their major. The original article had to redact the (not compensated) portion as we know they're getting room and board for working there at least. They can also leave at any time and we do not know that they can't get those 6 credits in another way later.

In the US, we have required internships for some colleges that are unpaid despite being full-time jobs.

Slavery and "forced" are absolutely silly terms to use here. Misleading advertisement? Yeah.

 

[keserak]

Modern slavery and how it is tolerated in the 1st world is such a fascinating research subject. All anyone ever cares about is their own indulgence. Greed is such a powerful tool. Too bad there's not much I can do about it.

Just yet.

Not slavery. Article title is misleading. Multiple people signed on to this college knowing that it had a required work study component. They're just upset that it isn't related to their major. The original article had to redact the (not compensated) portion as we know they're getting room and board for working there at least. They can also leave at any time and we do not know that they can't get those 6 credits in another way later.

In the US, we have required internships for some colleges that are unpaid despite being full-time jobs.

Slavery and "forced" are absolutely silly terms to use here. Misleading advertisement? Yeah.

Wrong. You misread the article. Forced labor is forced labor. The work the students are required to do is unpaid labor obtained by extortion. This is intellectually a simple issue, but thoroughly immoral persons seem to be misconstruing it.

The response to this news shows that people are willing to condone slavery so long as it doesn't happen to them.

 

[Vareoth]

Modern slavery and how it is tolerated in the 1st world is such a fascinating research subject. All anyone ever cares about is their own indulgence. Greed is such a powerful tool. Too bad there's not much I can do about it.

Just yet.

Not slavery. Article title is misleading. Multiple people signed on to this college knowing that it had a required work study component. They're just upset that it isn't related to their major. The original article had to redact the (not compensated) portion as we know they're getting room and board for working there at least. They can also leave at any time and we do not know that they can't get those 6 credits in another way later.

In the US, we have required internships for some colleges that are unpaid despite being full-time jobs.

Slavery and "forced" are absolutely silly terms to use here. Misleading advertisement? Yeah.

Wrong. You misread the article. Forced labor is forced labor. The work the students are required to do is unpaid labor obtained by extortion. This is intellectually a simple issue, but thoroughly immoral persons seem to be misconstruing it.

The response to this news shows that people are willing to condone slavery so long as it doesn't happen to them.

This does look like a classical example of extortion, yes. Any excuses made against this are somewhat hollow when the simple truth is that these students are being forced to work in a factory doing labor that's completely unrelated to their studies. Seems like a con to me.

 

[Something Amyss]

This isn't slave labor. Let's be sure to clarify it going forward.

We were talking the larger practices of Foxconn, where several of the broken stories are about conditions more severe. Let's be sure to leave this kind of intellectual dishonesty out going forward.