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To: koan who wrote (16841)	5/29/2012 12:41:00 PM
From: d[-_-]b	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Since only libtards buy apple products - why has your gang of compassionate libtards not already accomplished this goal? If only Chinese workers had an organized workers party for social justice and could get elected to government and then the socialist workers party could enact laws to fix all these issues - oh wait.....never mind.

To: koan who wrote (16841)	5/29/2012 1:50:56 PM
From: sm1th	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

We liberals would just pressure Apple to provide more humane working conditions and give them a higher wage. You fail to recognize that in China, those are very desirable jobs, even at your slave wages. When Foxcomm (the company that owns that plant) announces openings, there are thousands of people lined up at the gates to apply. What you call slave labor is a good job on the path from rural subsistence farming to middle class. People who are not burdened with facts complain about Apple building its products in China. In fact, the value of the Chinese contribution to an iPhone is less than 2% of list price. All that is done in China is final assembly of components made elsewhere. None of the chips are Chinese, the screen is not Chinese. The software and design, which are really Apple's only value, are American. Final assembly is done in China because it is the most economical. If you remove that advantage, you eliminate those jobs. How is that good for the newly unemployed workers?