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by 1letterunixname
1161 days ago
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It's good to raise awareness but it's not recent news. - Foxconn ships poor people from rural areas to mega factories, take their identity documents, and essentially holds them hostage. - Up the supply chain, small-scale miners of rare earth minerals risk their lives and die everyday. - Consumer cognitive dissonance allows billions of people to eat hamburgers without considering the impact of their choices. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-30540538 |
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They don't have to ship them, the poor people from rural areas come looking for better jobs in the mega factories. Nothing wrong with that.
> take their identity documents, and essentially holds them hostage.
This is a huge deal which many Chinese companies used to practice even just 10 years ago. I don't think it is very common now, the government did crack down on it, to stop making it a norm business practice.
That was 2014. Things aren't perfect now, but better than back then.