Kevin_Kennedy
Defend Liberty
- Aug 27, 2008
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The market doesn't know the difference between Chinese and American. As for working with a Chinese company, who cares? Yes, China holds American debt, that they can do nothing with. The U.S. is never paying them back. If they make any demands the U.S. stops making payments and they hurt themselves as much as they hurt the U.S. Again, however, it boils down to Apple, the producer of the iPhone, and the employees of Foxconn having come to a mutually beneficial arrangement, which they obviously have. Nobody has a right to stop them, and if you were really concerned with the plight of those employees you wouldn't be advocating Apple move production to the U.S. and putting them out of work.It is economical and in the end political suicide. Foxconn´s suicide nets won´t help. Billions of Dollars "escape" from the US national economy lowering the American purchasing power and therefor increase the iPhone´s price compared to the wage. Furthermore, foreign companies may not buy ground in China, must cooperate in an joint-venture with a Chinese company and give the company´s know how to Chinese authorities. In political tensions with China, China has 4 Trillion Dollar reserve. China holds US debts worth 1,2 Trillion $. And there are all the goods, China could lock at any time.Except choosing to work for Foxconn because it's your best option is not working under "slavish conditions." Slavish conditions would be if somebody kidnapped you and forced you to work for nothing under the threat of death. It doesn't matter to me where the iPhone is produced, because I'm not a protectionist or a nationalist. Producing the iPhones at Foxconn makes Apple and the workers at Foxconn better off, otherwise they wouldn't do it. I'm afraid I can't find a problem with that.Your life doesn´t improve when you are not an official slave but nevertheless live under slavish conditions. Why are you whining? Wouldn´t the 200.000 China jobs make 200.000 - 300.000 well payed US jobs if the iPhone would be domestically produced?I didn't say developing economies were ideal, but to compare it to slavery is an insult to those who actually suffered, and suffer today, under actual slavery.Their wage is a joke and is not even adequate to rent an apartment (not to mention further costs of living, electricity, food, etc), the working and living conditions inside the facilities are terrible and there are many students who are forced to work for Foxconn if they want to finish their studies.I don't recall slaves making wages or being able to quit.