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A comment on Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor in China. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor i... by BigJono on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @06:50PM (#25576562)
How does some private company getting labor for 10c an hour benefit anyone but them? It's "compensating" for jack shit. You might have a point if they had to pay minimum wage for each employee to the government to be used on social services.
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Re:Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor i... by h0l0cube on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @07:25PM (#25576835)
Add to this a perverse incentive to increase the 'labor pool' by corrupting the justice system.
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Re:Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor i... by riffraff on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @01:56PM (#25584717)
and the incentive for private prisons to not even try to behave as a "correctional" facilities, since your revenue is tied to having more criminals, not less.
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