Re:The human cost of the Kindle
by ymolodtsov on Sunday June 10, 2018 @01:44AM
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Neither Amazon nor Bezos do not py them directly. They pay Foxconn for assembled devices. If they paid more, Foxconn would probably just have better margins.
In this case it's very clear where wealth comes from: Bezos and the rest of the Amazon shareholders are severely underpaying these workers in violation of China's labor laws. Did you read the article?
> We can’t have stolen this wealth as not the smallest fraction of it existed in all the world before the industrial revolution.
The capacity for self-deception is always a bit surprising. Confronted with a clear and concrete case of labor exploitation and wage theft you insist, never the less, it is not labor exploitation and wage theft. That is economic insanity.
> How is removing demand for their labor going to make them wealthier?
There's no need to appeal to vague self-serving questions. The impact of labor standards on global trade have been studied and their impact can be quantified. Here, in particular, the California Effect [1] has been proven to be very effective in increasing labor and environmental [3] standards around the world. California alone could likely help here a lot by demanding regulatory advertising on these products. The first step would be to educate American consumers so they understand the enormous suffering that goes into these products.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_effect
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/opinion/free-trade-by-its...
[3] https://www.nature.org/magazine/archives/the-california-effe...