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Re:The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker by nylonstrung on Monday November 12, 2018 @12:49PM (#18434167)
What am I supposed to do as the consumer. Am I to not buy new electronics at all in protest? If 10,000 of us were to do this do you think the drop in revenue would be attributed to dissatisfaction with the working conditions instead of underperformance in sales and marketing?

If there was a way for me to paypal $20 to the employees myself on top of a new iPhone there could but its not something that consumers have much control over and I am skeptical that just using outdated devices addresses the situation

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Re:The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker by asdff on Monday November 12, 2018 @02:58PM (#18435178)
I don't think there is anything that consumers could do when the entire market is supported by this model. This is something that will have to be driven by government regulation, not the market that benefits from this system. The best thing you could do is support politicians who care about these human rights abuses, and who don't care about angering shareholders.
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