Foxconn: China's iFactory...

[Duper]

You may have heard about this and you will be hard pressed to find it on google (I'm sure you can, but I dind't try very hard) got this off of Yahoo.
If this report is accurate, what a weird paradigm. It's almost like they're house elves from Harry Potter.

ABC News: A Trip to The iFactory: 'Nightline' Gets an Unprecedented Glimpse Inside Apple's Chinese Core

American electronics makes $23/hr??? lol... the place I work at starts at $8.50/hr and is lucky to make $12. Where I work, we DO underpay. Typical pay in this area (Portland Oregon) is between 12 to start and can see as high as $18 +/- if they're IPC cert.

So, what to do? I'm a bit puzzled by this. I'm not all the keen on Apple but wow ... how the situation in China is. Their government Vilifies Capitalism, but lets their people be exploited by it. They aren't ok with it, but they don't really have a choice. It really looks like the work situation here in the US during the depression when people would line up to shovel coal and would be kicked off the job when they got too tired to shovel. The next person would step in.

[Tunnelcat]

This may tell you volumes about what the conditions are for workers at Foxconn.

http://www.dailytech.com/Foxconn+Instal ... e18877.htm

Look out Vietnam. Foxconn is thinking of moving there for...........................CHEAPER LABOR!

[Spidey]

/me rips the video card out of my server box and kicks it!

[Tunnelcat]

/me rips the video card out of my server box and kicks it!

You're right. Just about every electronic item we own or use comes from factories like Foxconn. Apple does not have the lock on slave labor practices.

[Sergeant Thorne]

It's something else to actually see it, isn't it.

[woodchip]

Curious how the big unions supporting Obama don't get upset over:

"starting salary is around $285 a month or $1.78 an hour."

This is why we don't have much made (other than autos) in America. Go into any store and look close where items are made. Went to look for a ceramic mug in Meijers and every one was from China. Then I looked at insulated mugs made by the likes of Thermos and others. All made in china. You wonder why we have a 15 trillion dollar debt and it is the Chinese who we look for to borrow ever more. If our govt. doesn't start putting a import tax on items made by American companies who use effectively slave labor then we will never be debt free.

Yeah I know lots of people are dependent on cheap Chinese goods because they can't afford more expensive American made good. OTOH perhaps these same people could afford American made products if we had all those jobs here instead of overseas that paid according to our pay scale.

[Spidey]

As I said before Woody…what came first…

The need to pay people a good wage in order to buy American made goods.

or

Well paid Americans choosing to buy cheep goods.

The clue is right in one of those posted videos. (Henry Ford’s concept)

[callmeslick]

As I said before Woody…what came first…

The need to pay people a good wage in order to buy American made goods.

or

Well paid Americans choosing to buy cheep goods.

The clue is right in one of those posted videos. (Henry Ford’s concept)

well put. Ford knew that paying enough to allow his workers to buy the base product was a good long-term business practice. The problem is that we live in a nation with an economy that has been skewed to favor short-term profits over long-term planning.