Apple to move 40-45% iPhone production to India

Re:Apple to move 40-45% iPhone production to India by SamReidHughes on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @11:40PM (#33904235)

You aren't addressing whether they'd be better off or worse off, with one less option for employment. A handful of complaints and controversies as linked doesn't actually provide the information necessary to draw the conclusion you claim.

Wouldn't you expect workers to be better off in treatment when the end customer has high margins, as Apple did, compared to low margins, as the next best employer would have?

> Employees took the profits?

Yes, that's why they got jobs -- the money.

And they took more at other companies, too, because having Apple do manufacturing in China also drives up wages at competing employers.

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Re:Apple to move 40-45% iPhone production to India by ignoramous on Thursday December 08, 2022 @11:13AM (#33909533)

I get your point that one can't have their cake and eat it too, but the scale at which Apple operates (and its sustained strong performance) makes it super hard to justify any form of exploitation. In MBA terms, regardless of the positive influence of ginormous captial, ESG matters for ginormous companies even more.

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