[citation][nom]house70[/nom]Foxconn needs only to grow a pair, charge Apple more/unit and put the money in better work conditions.[/citation]
It's not lack of profit that is keeping them from improving working conditions, it's greed. They do it because they *can*.
Companies in the U.S. are no different, it's just the minimum standard is higher: http://inequality.org/executive-pay-scorecard-2011/
Cash bonuses totaled more than $90.5 million for the top 10 CEOs in 2010
That's an avg bonus of $9,050,000.00 per CEO. EACH bonus could have employed 181 workers at the current middle income avg salary of $50,000. That's the pay of over 1800 jobs, or 18,000 good pay raises that was soaked up by *only* 10 "successful" d***bags.