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[POLL] PS4 BEING MANUFACTURED WITH CHILD SLAVE LABOR
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Does knowing this affect your decision about whether or not to buy a PS4? - Results
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I was going to buy a PS4 but now I'm not
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I wasn't going to buy a PS4 anyway
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18
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I was going to buy a PS4 and still will be
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Backwards_Cowboy
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CloseIt's not just Sony. Apple uses Foxconn, and Microsoft is using it for the new Xbox as well as their phones. Basically every major electronics company uses cheap underpaid/free labor. I also wouldn't call it "slave" labor, since they can leave if they want and aren't beaten into doing it. It's basically like the forced community services or fundraisers in many American high schools, except you learn something useful.
Being able to leave at the cost of failing high school/college and your future isn't really freedom, and the fact that these corporations are paying local governments for student labor in creepily similar to servitude. The students are working on assembly lines, so the amount of useful information they're learning is probably limited, and unlike a Saturday afternoon of community service, we're talking about a six-month period.
All that said, certain jobs in America require you to have internship experience, and many, many internships are unpaid. It's a broken system, or rather, a system fixed to benefit owners at the expense of workers.
All that said, certain jobs in America require you to have internship experience, and many, many internships are unpaid. It's a broken system, or rather, a system fixed to benefit owners at the expense of workers.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
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author=Backwards_Cowboy
I also wouldn't call it "slave" labor, since they can leave if they want and aren't beaten into doing it. It's basically like the forced community services or fundraisers in many American high schools, except you learn something useful.
I found out my mother is friends with a young couple, and the husband was part of one of these "programs" about ten to fifteen years ago. At age 14 or 15 he was taken from his home and forced to live and work in a factory for two years, during which time he was not allowed to leave and never once saw or talked to his family. He said that the funny thing is that the factory really had almost no adults in it, so there was no one really making them work a lot of the time, and not much actually got done.
So although the first article said the students were allowed to leave, this is apparently not always the case.
It's not an internship, it's exactly equivalent to slave labor in every conceivable way except that the government refuses to publicly acknowledge it. But if you escape, and are discovered, they will take you back to the factory. Or just shoot you. If they catch you not working, they will beat you or deny you food and water.
amerk
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author=LockeZ
If you boycotted every company that built their products with unethical practices in poor countries where no one cares enough to supervise them, you'd be amish.
I was thinking on similar lines, but you said it best. There's way too much crap that goes on behind the scenes, and to allow each and every one to impact your buying decisions would prevent you from buying half the things that are currently available.
