Jeff wrote: skibum5 wrote:
Then again, the more you read, the more Apple also seems to do well because the brutalizing conditions in the Chinese factories that build much of their product. Not that they are the only ones, but....
That\'s an off-topic comment of tremendous proportion, and not sure what place it has in this thread. Globalization is an incredibly complex issue in which both economic and sociological impacts cannot be casually ignored; viewing social issues primarily through a Western lens will lead to distortion of realities, to be sure. However \'bad\' you consider working or living conditions to be at Foxconn, it would be my \'guess\' that every worker is there of their own free will, and does not want to lose their job for any reason. Singling out Apple (or even the tech industry) as some sort of demon is misguided, at best; the U.S.--and the world, for that matter--wants cheap stuff, and is becoming (necessarily?) incapable of producing cheap \'stuff\'. China long ago chose to fill a void that we, ourselves created, out of our own economic success.
We can roll with it or let it roll on by, but either way, much of the world is changing. Fast.
Not to really get into this again, but I should first briefly publicly state that it is true that it\'s not fair to single out Apple when a dozen other big players (at least some divisions of Sony, already I don\'t think Canon or Nikon) are doing the same and it is a complex issue which I far oversimplified.
That said the alternate view above is also oversimplified as well and surely a bit overly rose-tinted glasses and excusatory in view.
Anyway as I said later, it\'s a complicated subject, don\'t listen to what either of us wrote, go read about it in detail from many sources and points of view.
Jan 30, 2012 at 11:47 PM
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