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Foxconn Shuts Plant as Workers Injured, Arrested in Brawl

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Wonder what this will do to iPhone 5 shipments... Probably a lot less than the perceived damage since this will start up another round of working condition articles in Western press. The end result will likely be a shortened timeline for Foxconn's robotics plan. Robots rarely stage protests.

If they do, it will be called 'skynet' and it will likely signal the end of man kind as we know it.

Re: Foxconn Shuts Plant as Workers Injured, Arrested in Brawl

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I'm aware of the problems which have gone on at Foxconn and personally I do not wish to purchase products manufactured in that manner. The main problem is that as a consumer it's hard to distinguish between products constructed within reasonable working practices and other products made under conditions analogous to slavery in prison-like dormitories. So I think there needs to be something similar to "fair trade", bu…

There's a Ted talk on fair trade cell phone.

http://www.ted.com/talks/bandi_mbubi_demand_a_fair_trade_cel...

Re: Foxconn Shuts Plant as Workers Injured, Arrested in Brawl

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Wonder what this will do to iPhone 5 shipments... Probably a lot less than the perceived damage since this will start up another round of working condition articles in Western press. The end result will likely be a shortened timeline for Foxconn's robotics plan. Robots rarely stage protests.

If they do, it will be called 'skynet' and it will likely signal the end of man kind as we know it.

You know, I think discussions about robotics have their own version of Godwin's law; sooner or later, there's always a comparison to hitler//skynet.
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