I'm not going to lie. I love Apple products. I check Apple Store's refurbished page on a daily basis to look for deals, even if I can't afford them. However, what's happening recently, or rather, the news of employee suicides leaking out of the Foxconn manufacturing enclave in Southern China, is making me reconsider my stupid, whorish obsession with Apple products.
Apple is milking its wildly popular brand recognition to the fullest by unabashedly charging American consumers exorbitant prices for its ornamental internet devices, while turning a blind eye to the working conditions of Chinese workers in its factories. Just because I can surf the internet where ever I want, does not justify that there are workers who have to work like slaves, my countrymen too! In fact, I'd rather not see the internet again, as long as the workers can enjoy the same financial freedom as I do (which is minimum wage in US dollars in San Francisco, but still a lot more than what they are making over there!)
I was close to buying a new iPhone and a MacBook Pro to help with my increased video editing efforts. But now I realize the shortened rendering time for my amateur mp4 files is not worth the consumer guilt I will have, knowing that I've contributed money to Apple's pockets so it can keep on exploiting foreign workers to please American tastes--which are really not worth that much, if you carefully think about it.
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