Apple Supply Chain Labor

Have you looked at Apple's supplier responsibility report? It's two clicks from their home page and lists basically everything that was true. (e.g. underage workers, aluminum dust explosions)

First, poor argument: https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/Second, Apple is actually trying to make sure that doesn’t happen: https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/pdf/Apple-Comb...

That is not a reasonable criticism. However, Apple is far from the good guy. Look at all the pro China things they have done. People committing suicide after being forced to work endlessly. Agreeing to the Great Firewall rules to continue doing business in China. I'm sure it is similar in other countries too. We know the people who make nearly everything we buy are treated not much better than slaves. It is not just China, look at the Nabisco workers, look at the meat processing plants. And

Is Apple the only company with a worker exploitation problem?

Apple doesn't have factories, they outsource their production. Large corporations, whether Apple or Foxconn, will pretty much inevitably do things like this if they perceive a net benefit in it. This is a Chinese company under the jurisdiction of the Chinese government. The Chinese government is in the best position, both morally and practically, to put a stop to these abuses to their own people. How much has Foxconn been fined due to this? How have the people who made and approved this decision

and Apple is using slave labor TODAY https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22457389

We talking about the same Apple that is accused of child labor and other human rights abuses?

You had me up until "No one is going to change their manufacturing practices as long as a company like Apple is reaping in some of the largest profits in recorded history using Foxconn style labor as a foundation."You are doing the exact same thing that you accused MG Siegler of doing, you're minimizing an abuse of workers.I like Apple gear a lot and I'm enough of a fan to hate seeing them getting attacked, but I agree that they need to step up and force Foxconn and their other suppliers t

People who are in disgust in Foxconn incident should also look into the factories where cloths they were wearing are made http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/may-18-20.... It is standard rule in capitalization. Businesses have to get goods/materials from the cheapest source available. No questions asked about how the supplier achieves it as long as it

Bullshit. Every single company in the US buys stuff from companies from foreign countries who promise to deliver things under contract. This is not an Apple owned company, or an Apple problem, or a U.S. problem, but a problem at a company in India (I believe owned by someone in Taiwan). Do you know who made the shirt you are wearing, the product you just bought from Amazon, who picked the grapes you have in your kitchen and who is reading your prescriptions, or how your company's security s