Have been reading quite a bit on Apple’s allegation of labor abuse especially on iPad’s production line, which coincides with Apple’s record high earnings. Almost each and everytime when Apple has new product release, the new edition of the existing products’ price would go down to attract users to make the brand switch so they got addicted to the whole product line. But these ‘benefits’ has a price: factories are nearly open and kept like day-light bright 24 hours where workers need to stand up almost 16 hours daily and they have to stagger back to their bed for the minimal rest and start all over again, and this keep going on forever as they don’t really have paid leave or any break. No wonder one of the supplier’s factories – Foxconn keep having people jump off the buildings either to get the compensation or to end this infinite pain. This moment when I am typing via my Macbook and checking out the whatsapp message on my iPhone, I have great guilt. The more I purchase the Apple products, the more Apple would try to produce to catch up with the demand – it’s like Charlie Chaplin’s mime movie about factory life, sad that it’s 2012 and it’s not a movie. I will pray for the society to put their conscience into corporate operation – it’s sad that we only focus on profitability but not social responsibility.
Daily Quote
Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all.
Mark 9:3I pray to God that there would be more of us who would care about the society instead of our own.Postscript Quote
Liberty means responsibility. That’s why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
