Foxconn Set to Deploy Robots to Help Assemble the iPhone

[Thunderbird]

So tell us, enlightened one, what jobs are there in China that people actually want?

News flash: People don't want jobs, they want lives. And they want their lives back. Just ask anyone who works.

And after your brand-new claim that people are forced off their lands in rural areas (which is surely Apple's fault, right), what I found was comments like this: "Lured by better employment and salaries, as many as 260 million farm workers have left the countryside for cities. A side effect of the exodus is a vast amount of land being left uncultivated.

Brand new claim? It's been a well reported fact for at least a decade. And where did I say it was Apple's fault?

Authorities have taken moves to make better use of such land. According to a key plenum of the Communist Party of China in November, farmers will be allowed to transfer and mortgage their land-use rights, or turn the rights into shares in large-scale farming entities."

"According to a key plenum of the Communist Party". You're relying on factual information from the Chinese government.... really?

So it seems that it is quite the other way round. People leave their land for better jobs (and then the land is unused).

Just bizarre unsubstantiated claims.

Sorry to burst your romantic Walt Disney view of the happy Chinese peasant following the yellow brick road to the city factory where fortune awaits, but it took me all of 2 minutes to do your homework for you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_evictions_in_China

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/w...-million-into-cities.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://www.hrichina.org/en/content/3790

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/wor...rise-in-china-amnesty-says-in-new-report.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/12/AR2005061201531.html

http://www.thenewamerican.com/world...e-regime-forcing-rural-population-into-cities

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2011-03/01/content_12092034.htm

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/02/world/asia/china-migrants-mental-health/

And two minutes is all the time I want to waste on your ignorance.

Foxconn is known to be among the best paying employees there.

Nope, or at least only in Shenzhen:

http://sacom.hk/majority-of-foxconn-workers-only-receive-meager-wages/

http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/pro/proshow-127.html

The majority of Foxconn workers only make marginally more than the minimum wage.

It's actually to Apple's credit that they have been able to put pressure on Foxconn to raise wages at all and reduce illegal overtime, things Foxconn would likely not have considered on their own:

http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...ls-china-labor-law-amid-99-percent-compliance

And look, make up your mind. Is it good if Foxconn offers jobs or not? People here have been tearing into Foxconn and Apple for offering these jobs. Now there will be fewer. So tell us, are you happy about this or sad?

It's neither good nor bad. Industrial civilization itself is the problem.