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Ask Slashdot: Any Smart Phones Made Under Worker-Friendly Conditions?
New submitter unimacs writes "So Apple has been under fire recently for the conditions at the factories of their Chinese suppliers. I listened to 'This American Life's' recent retraction of the Michael Daisey piece they did a while back. Great radio for those of you who haven't heard it — rarely has dead air been used to such effect. Anyway, while his work has been discredited, Michael Daisey wasn't inaccurate in his claims that working conditions are poor in iPhone and iPad factories. Given that, are there any smart phone manufacturers whose phones are made under better conditions?"
By Greedy you mean everybody...
Companies will be happy to give you products and treat their labor like royalty. If you are willing to buy an iPhone for $2,000 and iPad for $3,000 and $9,000 for a standard laptop?
If anybody who has worked in a small business you will see that the cost of operating a business is a lot more then most people think. If you do all the right things then your product will be much more expensive then your competitors. And then you don't make profit and you go out of business leaving all your well treated employees out of a job.
There is really a fine line between greed and staying competitive. Supply and Demand (Always start every problem as a supply and demand problem) If your price is above the supply/demand optimal point then you are loosing sales. If your price is below optimal point then you are leaving money on the table which will prevent growth.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Right. As if that would work: "Yeah, those guys on the other side of the room get breaks and shorter work hours, since they do stuff for Apple. You guys need to stop yapping, or you'll taste the whip again." I'm just saying that you're lying.