I was offered a job at Foxconn to assemble iPhones for $1.7 per hour

Re:I was offered a job at Foxconn to assemble iPhones for $1... by wswkb on Saturday May 18, 2019 @04:30PM (#19949567)

Without knowing what the median salary per hour is in that part of China, this is just rage-bait.

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Re:I was offered a job at Foxconn to assemble iPhones for $1... by azhenley on Saturday May 18, 2019 @04:40PM (#19949611)

> Foxconn is known for its high staff turnover, largely because of the low monthly salary of 2,100 yuan per month (US$313) in Zhengzhou. By comparison, the average salary in the city of Zhengzhou in 2018 was 6,929 yuan (US$1,035) per month.

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Re:I was offered a job at Foxconn to assemble iPhones for $1... by wswkb on Saturday May 18, 2019 @04:54PM (#19949656)

Then either they won't fill the positions or the average salary is too high. (And I asked for median, not average)

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Re:I was offered a job at Foxconn to assemble iPhones for $1... by claudiawerner on Saturday May 18, 2019 @04:55PM (#19949657)

Perhaps whatever the median is, it's still too low.

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Re:I was offered a job at Foxconn to assemble iPhones for $1... by wutbrodo on Saturday May 18, 2019 @05:39PM (#19949866)

Sure, but then the story becomes "it's sad that poor countries exist" instead of "Apple has an exploitative supply chain".

Not to mention that the numbers are meaningless without a sense of price levels. My cousin is a lawyer in Delhi and lives a life that would be recognizable to your I as very upper-middle class, and yet his equivalent USD salary is roughly one tenth of mine.

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