NYT Expose On Chinese Working Conditions In Apple Factories - Microeconomic Help Please
Why are Chinese workers pulling 112 hour weeks, subjecting themselves to harmful chemicals, and committing suicide? When employees of Google in Mountain View, CA have work weeks that are half of that, upscale dining facilities, and a volleyball court for lunch time relaxation?
I guess this article is the big news story recently...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/bu...pagewanted=all
Last edited by anaconda; 01-28-2012 at 01:47 PM.
Because the Chinese workers have no better alternative. The US workers have a better alternative than those working conditions because we are futher along the capitalism road. Same reason we have no child labor. We can afford it.
Chinese labour laws are atrocious. You get thrown in prison if you even think about organising a union. Don't justify these awful conditions as being part of a free market.
They are a part of a free market. It's true that it's illegal to unionize, but even if Chinese could unionize, it wouldn't solve much. The video below is for anyone who thinks this way.Originally Posted by Inny Binny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx5fz...layer_embedded
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No worries. Assuming America continues on its current economic course I don't think we'll be feeling bad for anyone but ourselves within the decade. At least the ones who haven't waken up yet.
They are slaves, without property rights, without liberties, without freedoms, in a controlled, corrupt fascist government. The future of the world as the CFR sees it.
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Problem is that many of the Chinese had their property stolen by the government. Now, their only option is to work at factories. Sounds like slavery to me.
if modern agriculture continues to follow the path it's on now, it's finished. The food-growing situation may seem to be in good shape today, but that's just an illusion based on the current availability of petroleum fuels. All the wheat, corn, and other crops that are produced on big American farms may be alive and growing, but they're not products of real nature or real agriculture. They're manufactured rather than grown. The earth isn't producing those things.. petroleum is! -Masanobu Fukuoka
Consumers in the West shouldn't be buying this stuff knowing how it's produced. The problem is that one can't buy any electronics then, because they're (nearly) all manufactured under these conditions...
The mistake most people make is that they compare the working conditions of sweatshop workers to their own Western conditions. You need to compare the conditions in the sweatshops to the alternatives they have, such as working on a farm. Sweatshops are almost always far superior to farmwork.
Slavery is pretty rare in South-east Asian sweatshops actually. In China it's a bit more common.
That's pretty much the same thing as it was during the industrial revolution in our country.
The only way to get out of sweatshop condition is to increase standard of living, just like we did.
If the Chinese government stop pegging the RMB to the dollar, they would have a higher standard of living (and ours would decrease), so the real tyrant to the Chinese people is the Chinese government.
Like pretty much everything, the usual suspect is the government.
Last edited by GreenBulldog; 01-29-2012 at 04:25 AM.
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