Your iPhone Was Built with Child Labor
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Re: Your iPhone Was Built with Child Labor
#2Child labor in the…
Fashion and footwear industry: https://labs.theguardian.com/unicef-child-labour/
Shrimp processing: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/dec/14/s...
Mining: https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---asia/---ro-bangk...
And everything else: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/reports/child-labor/list-o...
Re: Your iPhone Was Built with Child Labor
#3Child labor in the… Fashion and footwear industry: https://labs.theguardian.com/unicef-child-labour/ Shrimp processing: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/dec/14/s... Mining: https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---asia/---ro-bangk... And everything else: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/reports/child-labor/list-o...
This is great information and everything, but it seems like you're deflecting. Your smartphone was still made by child labor.
Re: Your iPhone Was Built with Child Labor
#4Child labor in the… Fashion and footwear industry: https://labs.theguardian.com/unicef-child-labour/ Shrimp processing: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/dec/14/s... Mining: https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---asia/---ro-bangk... And everything else: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/reports/child-labor/list-o...
This is great information and everything, but it seems like you're deflecting. Your smartphone was still made by child labor.
I think his point is that given the context that everything is involved with child labor somehow, pointing out just one particular item isn't very helpful.
More nuances about iphone being a luxury brand and therefore less justifiable and more "disgusting" can be added. But like how you said it above, it doesn't change the fact that the very economy and the comfort we are enjoying partly come from child labor.
Re: Your iPhone Was Built with Child Labor
#5Child labor in the… Fashion and footwear industry: https://labs.theguardian.com/unicef-child-labour/ Shrimp processing: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/dec/14/s... Mining: https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---asia/---ro-bangk... And everything else: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/reports/child-labor/list-o...
This is great information and everything, but it seems like you're deflecting. Your smartphone was still made by child labor.
Anything created under Capitalism is probably morally repulsive on one level or another. I vote to get rid of it entirely, if we can only come up with a better solution.
For now, I personally try to participate as little as possible in it.
Re: Your iPhone Was Built with Child Labor
#6Child labor in the… Fashion and footwear industry: https://labs.theguardian.com/unicef-child-labour/ Shrimp processing: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/dec/14/s... Mining: https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---asia/---ro-bangk... And everything else: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/reports/child-labor/list-o...
This is great information and everything, but it seems like you're deflecting. Your smartphone was still made by child labor.
>Your smartphone was still made by child labor.
that's mighty presumptuous.
and listing other child labor profiteers has a point : it illustrates that perhaps we should probably look for and fix the root causes of child labor rather than punishing a single perpetrator.
Re: Your iPhone Was Built with Child Labor
#7Child labor in the… Fashion and footwear industry: https://labs.theguardian.com/unicef-child-labour/ Shrimp processing: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/dec/14/s... Mining: https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---asia/---ro-bangk... And everything else: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/reports/child-labor/list-o...
This is great information and everything, but it seems like you're deflecting. Your smartphone was still made by child labor.
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Re: Your iPhone Was Built with Child Labor
#8Child labor in the… Fashion and footwear industry: https://labs.theguardian.com/unicef-child-labour/ Shrimp processing: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/dec/14/s... Mining: https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---asia/---ro-bangk... And everything else: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/reports/child-labor/list-o...
In some of these countries, going to school might give you a less prosperous life. How should the typical westerner deal with these facts?
Re: Your iPhone Was Built with Child Labor
#9I really hoped this was common knowledge. Guess it wasn't.
Re: Your iPhone Was Built with Child Labor
#10Does this article contradict Apple's 2017 change in suppliers