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Originally Posted by GadgetmanKen
I watched that episode and that it costs $600.00 to make each I-Phone, and the retailers take a loss on each one they sell at $200 or more hoping to make up the difference and then some on the 2 year contracts.
About the suicides, I think that maybe perhaps Foxconn may have cleaned up their acts after the explosions and even right before the interviews. But I feel that anyone working those many hours overtime just to send home money to their families, being away from them and needing to live on campus to survive, and living in close quarters with 6 other people would be very dramatic on anyone. So I could see why this was going on. They also saw a need to get counseling for anyone who needed it, which is an excellent response to try to help solve those problems.
So being that Foxconn makes other electronic devices for other major manufacturers the problems shouldn't be wholly attributed to just Apple. Is Foxconn owned by Apple or just a supplier for the Apple products?
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Let's not forget, in our rush to help them, that these people are working to make money to feed their families, and taking it away may well do more harm than good.
I'm not saying, do nothing -- but uninformed knee-jerk reactions often do more harm than good. If we all boycotted Apple, and these people lost their jobs, and we bought from 100 other companies with similar problems in smaller locations -- have we accomplished anything?