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Foxconn Reopens Polishing Workshops as Explosion Investigation Concludes

So many people on here, many of whom have never left their own state and certainly their own country, profess to know so much about the horrible work conditions and 'sweat shop" life of these workers on the other side of the globe. I wonder how work in this air conditioned factory compares to the toils of a rice paddy worker? These very well may be premium jobs in their society. I admit to not knowing. I just find it amusing how "damning" some people are of Apple and this factory while we have jobs that are actually more dangerous, dirtier and pay no more compared to the cost of living within our own nation. And probably not a one of us that doesn't have multiple products from a similar or same factory in China, be it the digital controls on your microwave, the guts of your car stereo, your artificial Christmas tree or $12 sunglasses. We should stop blaming Apple and start blaming ourselves (myself included), or just get over it.
 
Glad to see that everything is back to full production. The world needs an Apple in everyone's possession and world peace and harmony will reign.

All praise to the turtlenecked One forever and ever!
 
Gasu E. said:
China has a one-child policy.
The USA has a policy of witholding aid to foreign health programs unless the only family planning method they promote is abstinence.
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Yes, it's a good try, but only applies to 36% of their population. There are exceptions and not everybody is adhering to it.

Don't think China needs any help for anything from the US they are swimming in US Dollars from all their exporting.

Plus, they own a lot of companies and real estate in the US.
 
Appslover said:
Poor workers, they are treated like slaves.

Apple should do something about this!
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As far as I am concerned every ****ing worker can die (as long as there are more to replace them). It is somewhat amusing that the Chinese call them workshops - not a far leap from sweatshops.
 
Tiger8 said:
Yes, shame on Apple for manufacturing their products there. and kudos to Dell, HTC, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba, Panasonic, Qualcomm, Microsoft, Vizio, Acer, Asus, and Nokia for manufacturing their products in factories with better conditions.
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You ever look inside an Xbox? Right on the casing is stamped the Foxconn name. Come on people! Get a clue! They employ a million people and manufacture way more than Apple's products.
 
revjoel said:
You ever look inside an Xbox? Right on the casing is stamped the Foxconn name. Come on people! Get a clue! They employ a million people and manufacture way more than Apple's products.
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+1 Look at Dell Poweredge servers. All foxconn cables inside.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/8J2)

This is good. Hopefully no more loss of lives at the factory.
 
Thunderhawks said:
Here is another novel idea:

Stop making more children and use your brain AND condoms.

The planet is full, especially in Asia. There is not enough physical labor to give out in the world.

If every worker at FoxConn accepts the conditions (Don't even exactly know what they are, except from hearsay and media reports) because they have an entire family connected to the fact that they have a job and bring in money, maybe it's time to shrink their families over time?

Sadly, this will go on in all the countries where poverty is created via over population.
As posted, this is not alone Apple's problem, but it looks good to tie negative news to corporations with lots of media exposure.
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Use condoms. Brilliant. Problem solved.

Perhaps you could shift your thoughts a little bit and start to consider the problem the other way around:

Not made in America :
http://feedroom.businessweek.com/?fr_story=cafca80532b06b8b6c469e122e86faf33e857b40&rf=sitemap

The Story of Stuff :
http://www.storyofstuff.com/

And I guess your brilliant mind has already read No Logo.
 
Given how long they shut it down for it sounds like they probably did address the problem and did not just pretend it never happened. Hopefully this will be the end of any major accidents for them.
 
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