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Re:Apple is a traditional business by monocasa on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @11:52AM (#16978149)
A worker at Foxconn has about the same discretionary income as blue collar workers in the states; their food and housing is covered by Foxconn, but isn't normally listed as part of their salary.

Now, albeit, they're slightly on the higher end of Chinese workers, but it's not just the shitty aristocrat's kids spending money on iPhones. The people making the things make enough money to buy one, just the same as my hairdresser does.

Re:Apple is a traditional business by antris on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @12:12PM (#16978410)
In that case Foxconn isn't an example of an average company paying average wage. The disposable income per capita in China was 36396 chinese yuan in 2017, which makes a little over 400 USD per month. Median disposable income is even lower. You're not even close to buying iPhones with that kind of wages.
Re:Apple is a traditional business by monocasa on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @12:55PM (#16978877)
At $400USD/month after food, housing, transportation, and healthcare are taken care of absolutely puts you into iPhone purchasing range.
Re:Apple is a traditional business by dzonga on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @12:36PM (#16978704)
my friend lives in Beijing and teaches English and gets paid $3k$ / month. So I can bet a lot of folks are paid decently in China too