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bg5000:

apoplecticskeptic:

jeffmiller:

(via The Apple Boycott Graphically Explained - Forbes)

I mostly agree, but the argument is more complicated than this.

Interesting, and certainly complicated. I’m curious to learn more, though.

Look, here’s the only question you need to ask yourself about this whole Foxconn thing: Would i work at a job with the same conditions/pay? If the answer is “no”, then why would you want any one else to work like that? If the answer is “i’d do whatever was necessary to support myself and my family”, recognize that that basically makes you an economic hostage, and no one should have to live that way.

Keep in mind that i say this as someone who owns numerous products made at Foxconn facilities. I am well aware that i am contributing to the problem, and i don’t feel good about it. But at least i’m not making snappy, misleading charts to make myself feel better about it (it’s all about context, indeed).

Thank you for this commentary, seriously. Just because the bar is set incredibly low, that doesn’t mean that a slightly higher one is not still horrendous. ONLY 7 per every million people kill themselves? How many people kill themselves at our jobs? Foxconn’s numbers are lower because they installed nets around the dorms to keep people from jumping out of the windows so they would stop committing suicide.

This is, indeed, a much larger issue than I can even understand but I’m smart enough to know that the tag line on that infographic is insane. It might be too large an issue for a boycott to solve, but continuing to buy their products is far from supporting the workers. It supports the system that allows their slightly better than hopeless situation to continue and it all sucks no matter what you do.