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Your iPhone Was Built with Child Labor

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Re: Your iPhone Was Built with Child Labor

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hold the corps to account, vote with your wallet, demand that they reinvest profits in education and betterment and development of these geographic areas.

So where do you start? Your phone? Computer? Clothes? Car? Food?

Clothes is a nice and easy one to begin with choosing an alternative for because it's a much more simplistic product with a more easily traced supply chain. Phones, computers and cars are something we'll likely struggle with for a long time.

For anything else, the public will likely need to demand change as I doubt a superior or equal alternative will emerge. With that said, products like the FairPhone are very interesting, though I haven't used one.

Food is something that'll largely hinge on your geographic area and availability of produce that makes sense.

Re: Your iPhone Was Built with Child Labor

#33

Children get money, I get a good product. It's a win win situation.

> Children get money

In exchange for extremely dangerous working conditions that can and usually do irreparable damage for life. It's hardly a "win" for a kid to grow up doing this for money, and have horrible health issues after the age of 30, making their remaining life miserable.

Re: Your iPhone Was Built with Child Labor

#34
It's good to raise awareness but it's not recent news.

- Foxconn ships poor people from rural areas to mega factories, take their identity documents, and essentially holds them hostage.

- Up the supply chain, small-scale miners of rare earth minerals risk their lives and die everyday.

- Consumer cognitive dissonance allows billions of people to eat hamburgers without considering the impact of their choices.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-30540538

Re: Your iPhone Was Built with Child Labor

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Does this article contradict Apple's 2017 change in suppliers https://fortune.com/2017/03/03/apple-cobalt-child-labor/

This article says that 70% of Cobalt comes from the Congo and “no way” can they avoid the taint of this. So no, they don’t care that Apple changed suppliers for Cobalt to avoid this very issue. Also the recent news that Apple is aggressively pursuing 100% recycled Cobalt.

Amnesty International report from 2017. Apple is the top rated consumer electronics company (page 78 for all the companies together, 94 focuses on consumer electronics):

https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/AFR627...

Re: Your iPhone Was Built with Child Labor

#37

Children get money, I get a good product. It's a win win situation.

Did you spend your childhood in a sweatshop as well?

I had my own side hustles as a child. I preferred computer related work instead of manual labor. Since I was good at what I did no one cared about my age.

Re: Your iPhone Was Built with Child Labor

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post #36
post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This article says that 70% of Cobalt comes from the Congo and “no way” can they avoid the taint of this. So no, they don’t care that Apple changed suppliers for Cobalt to avoid this very issue. Also the recent news that Apple is aggressively pursuing 100% recycled Cobalt.

Amnesty International report from 2017. Apple is the top rated consumer electronics company (page 78 for all the companies together, 94 focuses on consumer electronics): https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/AFR627...

Looks like Samsung is rated just as high

Re: Your iPhone Was Built with Child Labor

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post #33

Children get money, I get a good product. It's a win win situation.

> Children get money In exchange for extremely dangerous working conditions that can and usually do irreparable damage for life. It's hardly a "win" for a kid to grow up doing this for money, and have horrible health issues after the age of 30, making their remaining life miserable.

Then they shouldn't take that job. The working conditions should be made clear ahead of time so that an informed decision can be made.
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