I agree with this, up to a point. The greater part of Apple profits comes from the very high premium it can extract from its gullible sheep* loyal customers.mistermack wrote:Apple are sitting on mountains of cash because they persuade punters to pay twice the price that stuff is worth.
Not because they have slave labour.
If people are free to come and go, then the price of labour, and work conditions, are down to market forces.
Are you exploiting someone, by giving them a job that they want, and which is better than anything else they can find?
I'm not a fan of Apple, but Panorama is shit, and has been for years now.
It used to be really good, but those days were a long long time ago.
Now they just go for the headline, and fuck the reality of context.
*Sorry Jim
But "slave labour" doesn't have to be taken literally (a bit like the beatitudes
). The very fact that that so many producers can get away with such poor conditions ought to tell you that the labour market in China is not exactly "fair".
