Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Forced u0026 underaged labor make your iPhone possible" video.

  1. Very much agreed. Unfortunately, this is basically the whole way US and other developed country's companies found to mass produce products cheaply enough to turn all of them into commodity for US consumers, and Apple is a pretty new player to this game... even if it's among the kings of it right now. Case by case it may sound abhorrent behaviour to us, but this has been happening since the times developed countries started outsourcing industries and whatnot to China and other poorer countries... it's a whole way modern capitalism works in the first place. We're hearing about it more because of the Internet/mass information effect. More independent people going after the stories, doing independent checks, and blowing it up before powerful people have a say. The solution is also simpler than people might think - law and heavy regulation for corporations that have 3rd party relationships, proportionate not only to the case, but to the size of the company. They only speak money, so let's speak money. Bare minimum is compensating for moral, physical and other types of damage done to the victims, plus punitive damages for violating labor laws, plus punitive damages for breaking international agreements, plus whatever more is related to the case itself with money going for the victims and country that were exploited, and then you add up a lump sum proportionate to the revenue that the company makes so the fine makes sense, so we're talking about percentages of whatever the company made through the period the violation happened. If the objective is to stop corporations from going to the bottom of the barrel to find the cheapest most questionable 3rd parties out there with all sorts of problematic behaviour, those types of practices needs to cost so much for the company that they'll spend whatever they need to avoid the situation. Alas, it needs to be a global effort so the corporation doesn't just flee to another country. Or it needs to be a pre-condition for the company to do business in the country. US has the biggest Apple market bare none in the planet, so it has leverage there. Unfortunately, this doesn't bode well with late stage capitalism that the US is going through. Too many people in power dependant on dirty blood money these companies make, not enough willingness to do what needs to be done, too much complicity. Because really, that sort of stuff should've been done from start. As well as imposing laws and regulations to stop stuff like corporations using tax heavens, and all sorts of other schemes to enrich themselves while leaving nothing to the society that got them to the place they are right now. Problem is, this needs a revolution. Radical thinking. A complete disruption on how politics and justice is done in the US and several other countries. But it's just too disruptive on how currently things are. It's so disruptive that even people staunchly against these Apple practice, if they stop to think much about how much things would change, would take a step back. And that's the real problem with these bad practices that have been going on for decades...
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