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Workers Poisoned Making Touchscreen Hardware

Posted by Soulskill on from the welcome-to-the-jungle dept.

SocResp writes "A chemical called n-hexane has been poisoning the nervous systems of Chinese workers who assemble touchscreen devices for Apple and other companies, an investigative journalist from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports. It's scary to think that people are being damaged to pursue high production rates. For companies with soaring profits and share prices, and elaborate product development and marketing, it seems they should be all the more culpable if they fail to take care of the production workers."

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  1. This is part of why offshoring is cheaper: by Ungrounded+Lightning · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Production lines in other countries don't incur the cost of US worker-safety regulations.

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  2. Capitalism by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The market will fix this. Nobody will buy iPhones when they hear about this. And all iPhone consumers in the market will hear about it.

    Right?

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