Fair Labor Association Offers Initial Impressions on Foxconn Audit as iPads Used to Collect Survey Data

[AppleScruff1]

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farmboy is saying that the majority of the things you mentioned from the DailyMail article aren't in the electronics industry, and that you can't equate a textile/clothing factory to a toy factory to a high end consumer electronics factory to a commodity electronics factory to a medical devices factory.

Thank you very much for a clear explanation. I appreciate it.

 

[brdeveloper]

Maybe Apple can come out of this as heros. Phase out Chinese operations and bring those jobs back to the U.S. Just a thought, call me crazy. I'm sure there are a few Americans who would take the job.

Profits and stocks would drop a lot. The easier way to solve it is by offering small improvements on workers' conditions until the world accept that will be no cheap worker anymore. Not so cheap to justify outsourcing jobs.

 

[whiteyanderson]

Profits and stocks would drop a lot. The easier way to solve it is by offering small improvements on workers' conditions until the world accept that will be no cheap worker anymore. Not so cheap to justify outsourcing jobs.

Yes, easy and profits and stocks shouldn't necessarily be in the same conversation. It is was got this country in the mess it is in the first place.

I would certainly pay a bit more for a product that was built in America if it meant some of my countrymen having meaningful employment. I'm sure there are plenty of others that feel the same. Not that I have anything against workers anywhere else, I just think that eventually the lust for profit and stocks will overtake the market. It is a shortsighted vision. Who will after all buy these products when all the jobs have been outsourced and phased out? No middle class America = no consumers in a massive chunk of any companies market. Then what happens to profits and stocks?