[powerapple]

Wrong. The protest is about compensation, the workers were promised to have 10k once they get pass the probation period, 3 months. They were let go before the 3 month probation finished, and they demand the payment. You don't just go around developing world and criticize people not eating organic food or anything. It is not right. I wish Chinese workers get paid the same amount as their western counterparts, the fact is that factories moved there because of they can pay less. Is it a bad thing? No, apparently we need dollars to import anything, so they are making less money in western standards, but at least they are making some money. Has fairtrade coffee made African countries as rich as Europe? it will never happen, forget about ethics, if you are taking away the financial base where people can make a living, you are taking away everything.

[enkid]

Wait, are you saying because China isn't rich, workers shouldn't have rights? I'm legitimately asking, because when you boil down your argument, that's what it sounds like.

[powerapple]

Workers have rights. They have the rights to choose to work or not, they have the rights to feel happy about their salary and compensation or not. Things develop naturally. People want factory to move out of China not because they care about worker's right? If they care about the right, they would ask Apple to pay more instead of moving out of the country. Did I say workers shouldn't have rights? You cannot boil down my argument to a sentence does not make sense. Developing countries need to make tradeoffs. Work extra time so their next generation can live better. These things are not given, it is not like you are a great social activist and your country suddenly can improve economically as well. The world is under financial colonization, developing world is at the bottom because their influence is weak.

[powerapple]

No, developing world DOES NOT have a choice, that's a fact. Unless you are sending money every day to developing world, taking their jobs away is basically murdering people. Maybe too much for soft westerns who didn't understand why people risking their lives and their kids' on a boat to Europe.

[CyanBird]

Flying geese companies move there exactly because Chinese workers can be abused nearly at will given that the focus of the government is (was) development at all costs

Flying geese will always abuse their workers, that's what Apple is. Same with let's say Foxconn