What advantages are there to moving manufacturing to another nation, usually one that is poorer with large populations?
The obvious advantage of moving the manufacturing to foreign countries such as China is the cheap labor. But another aspect I think gets overlooked is the out-of-sight out-of-mind ideology that’s so prevalent in this country; this is the Not In My Back Yard mindset you have mentioned gone awry. Because these factories are half way around the world and are supplying us with our new messiah the iPhone, people praise and get all misty eyed over someone like Steve Jobs, especially since his passing, regaling with stories of how he was fired and saying he’s such a good example of what hard-work can get you in this country. Then he turns his back and uses people who work harder than he ever worked to become filthy stinking rich, and a good portion of those people he’s using are under 15 years old! Think of all the jobs he could have kept here if he was just willing to part with a few of his millions to pay an honest wage for an honest day worked. Oh but if these CEO’s did that however would they keep filling up their private jets, and what would become of their private island, those don’t just vacation on themselves.
What did you notice as to how these workers are treated?
It goes without saying that the way these people are treated and the thing demanded of them are appalling. Foxconn released a report saying that their suicide rates are lower than the average of
most occupations, but the last time I went to my dad’s office I didn’t see any nets around the buildings perimeter, I suspect a hint of embellishment on Foxconn “research data”. When asked about the working conditions and Foxconn’s treatment of their “workers” Steve Jobs responded “Foxconn is not a sweatshop; you go to this place and it’s a factory, but my gosh they got restaurants, movie theatres, hospitals, and swimming pools…for a factory it’s a pretty nice
factory.” What Mr. Jobs failed to mention is that they also have living arraignments, and the whole reason they provide all these things is because these indentured servants are never
intended to leave these facilities. They do not go home to their families they live like cattle, and these businesses stand for nothing but elitism and keeping the little people in their place which is
sickening.
Would American workers stand for this type of treatment? Be specific in your statement.
Simply put, no. Nor should we, with that said we shouldn’t stand for other people being subjected to this kind of treatment either, it spits in the face of human and workers’ rights. But that’s why these companies left the United States long ago, hah why would I pay for health benefits, pay into a 401K, give maternity leave, or any of these other perks to these little worker ants when I can line my pockets with that money. Besides here in America we don’t even want the jobs like building houses and picking fields, why would we want a job where we work 12-hour shifts at like $.86 an hour and at the end of the day go to allotted living quarter around people we don’t know and have no outside life, please we’re too occupied with trying to be the next American Idol or watching Joey Chestnut gobble down 70 hotdogs in 10 minutes while children all over the world starve.
If the USA is the standard to the world of decency, democracy, doing the right thing, should we stand by and accept that these types of conditions exist? Should we demand more from these corporations making billions of dollars on cheap labor? What are the negatives of American consumers demanding that our businesses reflect our values? Are we willing to literally "pay the price?"
Absolutely I believe we should, but the question I have is are we actually the standard of decency, democracy, blah blah blah or do we just like to say that when it’s convenient? When our “values” come between us and getting the latest form of electromagnetic pollution or technology as we usually call it, we have no problem looking the other way, but then someone calls us out on it we get all upset and patriotic and talk of our country’s superiority. How about we ask the people we bombed in Libya of American decency, we are fighting a “war on terror” by going in and terrorizing other people. The flag of hypocrisy reigns supreme for our country and truthfully most “1st world” countries like Britain, among others. The main negative for us actually living up to our word of being a “global leader of decency” is that the prices of our stuff would likely go up, which no one would be happy about. But our money is a farce, it is printed by the Federal reserve which is a privately owned for profit organization. It is not backed by gold or any precious metals it is literally worth what they tell us it is worth, and when they print this “money” they charge an interest rate it is a debt and is utterly worthless. But through their programming of us with their television, facebook, among other brainwashing technique we would run over our own mother for a ten dollar bill. Truly it’s pathetic; these elite at the top are having themselves a jolly-good laugh watching us worship their worthless green paper.
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