chumly said:
I found
this article on another site, and I thought it was interesting. As far as I know, employees have the right to become part of a union to help better their workplace wages and conditions, it's American, it's an idealism that we hold dear. However, what are you to expect from a company that installs nets in it's Chinese factories to keep their workers from committing suicide? If anything, I think this is yet another reason to stop buying into this greedy corporation.
Check the tags of the clothes on your back to see where they were made. Go into any hardware store and and look at where the various tools are made. In almost all cases it all comes from China, Indonesia, Vietnam, etc. To put all of the blame on Apple is to avoid looking at where all of the other computer vendors have their products made. Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc., are made of components made and often times assembled in China. The problem is that the Far East is having a lot of social issues: Korea is realizing that pushing so much school on their children is not a good thing, suicide is not something unique to China, etc. The problem is that they have always been driven to exceed, but there is more to life than work and it is beginning to show.
Jgan says: "which people most understand before they begin to judge....americans tend to be narrowminded, thinking that their system of democracy and people should all be given equal rights." Is this an example of the pot calling the kettle black. Not all American's are narrow minded. Narrow mindedness is found primarily on the far right. Yes, we do have a great democratic state in place (in theory anyway.) The OWS movement is bringing attention to the economic inequalities that currently are in place. What would happen in China if such demonstrations took place? All people in America should have equal rights. All people in the world should have equal rights. To suggest otherwise is to support dictatorial rule, fascism, or the like. People should have the right in all places to freedom of speech, the right to work, the right to an education, housing, and food. Of course, none of these products should be given away but should be earned via work.