[citation][nom]Tomtompiper[/nom]"Do you honestly still wish to defend them? "You are judging them by western standards, and you are probably wearing underwear made in sweatshops by children, trainers made in sweatshops by wage slaves and the truth is the Foxcon workers are in much better conditions than many of the people who manufacture the products you use and wear. Boycotting Foxcon goods will not improve standards at their factories, it will just make their employees ex employees in poorer jobs and some other company will take up the slack. [/citation]
Actually I prefer to buy and wear clothing that is made in America.
You may shop at Walmart for your clothes sir but I do not. Also "judging them by western standards"?! I'm pretty sure sexual assault is illegal and unacceptable there as much as in the western world. This is just lowly of you to try to justify such a act as a culture difference
and part of their culture.
Settling for a lesser evil is not acceptable. People like you frighten me on how cold hearted you can be. If we were in the American civil war times would you be speaking in favor of slavery? Would your excuse be well if the African's weren't enslaved we would have to pay more for cotton and if they were free they would lose whatever shelter and food that they currently receive? That is the logic you are applying and I don't know if your just ignorant or that damn black hearted.
If you want workers paid a fair wage and in excellent conditions ask Apple to make the phones in the US and be willing to pay four times as much for the privilege of owning one.
So not accepting intimation through threats, physical assault, and sexual assault is somehow asking for excellent conditions? You've got to be kidding me. I highly doubt if you were raped at your workplace you would simply just accept it and tell yourself that if you try to stop such acts it would be asking for "excellent conditions" and that it would somehow raise the price of your service to consumers. Asking for human decency is not asking for much.
Also your highly exaggerating the price hike that would be needed for these people to make a living wage and have decent working and living conditions. No one is expecting a utopia and I don't think anyone is expecting a mass change all at once. If they simply invested a small amount to improve the work and living conditions eventually everything that needs to be done would be. However the abuse of the workers there is no excuse for and has no reason to continue for another second.
What do you think is worth more? The lives and well-being of our fellow man? Or Investors sacrificing a extremely small amount and a consumer spending a few bucks more for a product?