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by wutbrodo 2595 days ago
Sure, but then the story becomes "it's sad that poor countries exist" instead of "Apple has an exploitative supply chain".

Not to mention that the numbers are meaningless without a sense of price levels. My cousin is a lawyer in Delhi and lives a life that would be recognizable to your I as very upper-middle class, and yet his equivalent USD salary is roughly one tenth of mine.