Comments by "looseycanon" (@looseycanon) on "Apple slaves revolt, destroy factory over $7/month pay" video.

  1. Let me play a devil's advocate right now. While I passionately hate Apple, I really don't think this is their mess to clean up. I happen to know, that Wistron doesn't just do Apple, as my former collegue now works at Wistron in a different country. He does more "normal" gear and he never mentioned this kind of abuse. In the mean time, this is not first and I'm quite certain not last case of unspeakable stuff happening in India. Also, is this isolated incident within the company, or is this widespread? Because, if there are multiple Wistron plants and this can be found in just one, then we're at a different case. Joshua Fluke had a spat with quite a few companies and actual full on confrontation with one company from India specifically over wages (and let's take difference in prices out of the question for a minute), but things quickly escalated in to slave labour conditions with a couple. Traditionally, it's not job of a company to police other companies beyond quality checks and probably checking certifications, because you really begin to blur boundaries of companies. If Apple has the responsebility for Wistron and has to make sure, that Wistron's employees get payed enough to comfortably live, where are the boundaries betwene the two companies? Aren't they then really one and the same? If so, what tax implications does that have? (and that's just one field!) And that's just situation of one brand/company being serviced by another. What if the service provider has multiple clients with same degree of responsebility for his employees' wage, do all these companies become essentially one through shared responsebility? I really don't think this has acceptable answers without state authority to enforce minimal standards, because companies won't do that beyond marketing potential at top end of effort. Therefore, I'd argue there is something wrong with laws and/or their enforcement in India.
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