What If It’s Just Inherently Terrible Making Things Like Electronics
NYT:
According to Reuters, Mr. van Heerden [who is traveling with the Fair Labor Association’s team in China] said Foxconn’s “physical conditions are way, way above average of the norm” for factories in China. “I was very surprised when I walked onto the floor at Foxconn, how tranquil it is compared with a garment factory,” Mr. van Heerden said, according to the Reuters report. “So the problems are not the intensity and burnout and pressure-cooker environment you have in a garment factory. It’s more a function of monotony, of boredom, of alienation perhaps.”
And this is supposed to be praise! Would you give up your MacBook, iPhone, uh, Samsung Galaxy Tab, HDTV set, microwave, etc., etc., etc., if several studies and organizations found that it’s just existentially deadening to manufacture them?
