(Although the thought of Apple pushing $499 iPads [or whatever after the discount] to school systems to educate children when Chinese manufacturers that make the iPad pay their workers about 35 cents an hour — workers who probably cannot afford a decent education as a result — is just all sorts of fucked up.)
There’s a good This American Life episode about this. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/454/mr-daisey-and-the-apple-factory
Definitely worth a full listen. Also it’s important to ask what the alternative is. Do other manufacturers have better practices? Doubtful, but it’s certainly worth it to yell at apple to be the company with ethics we support
(Source: inothernews)
(Although the thought of Apple pushing $499 iPads [or whatever after the discount] to school systems to educate children when Chinese manufacturers that make the iPad pay their workers about 35 cents an hour — workers who probably cannot afford a decent education as a result — is just all sorts of fucked up.)
There’s a good This American Life episode about this. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/454/mr-daisey-and-the-apple-factory
Definitely worth a full listen. Also it’s important to ask what the alternative is. Do other manufacturers have better practices? Doubtful, but it’s certainly worth it to yell at apple to be the company with ethics we support
(Source: inothernews)
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