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LurkerJ on 28 October 2015
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RenCutypoison said:
LurkerJ said:

I feel like that the Chinese workers are the new "the kids in Africa".
Do people really care? or is it just something they bring up because their arguments, whatever they may be, don't hold water on their own?

If you’re not even contributing anything to ending the poverty or the suffering, then you should especially stop bringing them up, otherwise, you only come off as tasteless. 


Are they even chinese ? China is delocalising everything in Taiwan now.

Also awareness is a good first step. 

Apple has been trying to improve working conditions there, despite not being Foxconn sole customer. This recent piece, for example, barely got any publicity. Do you see snarky smartass comments about "Chinese workers" in any other thread that handles MS/SONY/Google/Nintendo financial statements? Nope. And guess what, Foxconn is a major supplier for all the mentioned companies. News outlets single out Apple because it's easy, gets them clicks and eyeballs. 

That's why I say , people don't really care about what's happening outside their bubble, they just want to raise a point that's too weak to stand on its own, so they throw something about African kids or Chinese workers to augment whatever their point is.