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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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