New York Times Insight on Foxconn

I read the article that was published on January 31st, 2012 by Steve Kovach that’s called “Should you feel guilty for buying an IPhone”. This article was all about how New York Times did a research on Foxconn and what it’s like to work there. The New York Times find some disturbing evidence that backed up how miserable it is to work there. The workers have shifts up to six times a week and work up to twelve hour days. The workers have experienced swelling of their legs because the long hours they put in without rest. The factory is also unsafe because there was a reporting that a worker got badly burnt when a machine that produced IPads in China. He later died with his family and that’s not the first accident that took people’s lives. There also have been suicides over working there, that’s how bad it is. There has been many attempts at boycotting Apple because of how they treat their workers but not enough people care about how they are made as long as there getting their smart phone, they don’t care how it got into their hands. It is such a hot topic these days because of how cheap they go for now. They are only cheap because they get them from China and the price is cheaper down there. The part that got me mad was when they said Apple has $100 billion dollars in the bank and they know how bad the workplace is in Chine, but they still don’t give them any money towards improving it and making it a better place of employment. I personally don’t think that people care about how the work environment is like in China because most people these days just care about themselves and don’t think about anything else. They recently took a poll and wanted Apple to make all produces in the U.S so that they can collect the manufacturing cost. That leads me back to my point about how people don’t care how it’s made, as long as they have it in their hands and it didn’t empty their wallet.