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Re:Crowded dorms,no flush toilets and food crawling with wor... by ParanoidShroom on Thursday December 30, 2021 @01:09PM (#29739381)
>Apple spends orders of magnitude more money and effort to ensure worker conditions in their supply lines than any other company

Please back this statement up. I'm honestly curious.

It's a company, they optimize for their interest. They will invest according to that image/reputation value. But as any company, profits... But this reply just sounds like blind PR.

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Re:Crowded dorms,no flush toilets and food crawling with wor... by setr on Thursday December 30, 2021 @02:00PM (#29740051)
> It's a company, they optimize for their interest. They will invest according to that image/reputation value.

Given this article exists, which specifically targets damages against apple’s image/reputation value, then it seems clear to me there exists at least some incentive for apple to do as GP describes

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Re:Crowded dorms,no flush toilets and food crawling with wor... by grogenaut on Thursday December 30, 2021 @03:22PM (#29740996)
There might be an incentive != they are doing things about it. ParanoidShroom righly asked for proof from GP, you offered "they are incentivized" that's not proof.
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