My parents put me to work on the farm when I was 6, does it mean I was abused?! I wasn't even getting paid, now that I think of it! What's so wrong about 15 years old kids making a few bucks? Sadly, they are way underpaid...
I lol'd I've been working in my parents bookshop for a while now, I started when I was 12, now I'm still only 14. I do get paid well though, very well...
Look at this for what is. The factory managers hired in those kids. Apple likely knew nothing about it. Also, that article is trying to excite people. A kid in a stroller, really? those kids were 15. I worked in my uncle's factory when I was 14 and it's not like apple is making machine parts in a sweat factory or anything. All that happened was they hired kids just under the legal age. We're talking about a country that had 13 year olds doing gymnastics in the Olympics, remember? Apple probably has the smallest number of underage workers in China.
This. The clothes company I work for got a lot of bad press when evidence of child labor was uncovered in the factories. Truth is we knew nothing about it, we run regular checks and are members of the Ethical Trading Initiative, but the people taking charge in those countries manage to sneak them in regardless. As soon as we found out we took action. Apple isn't bad unless they stand by idly and allow it to happen, which I doubt they're doing. The sad truth is it's usually the child's parents that are responsible for forcing them into it, poverty calls for desperate measures.
That is, frankly, utterly no excuse. To misquote Mrs Bartlett from the West Wing "if Apple didn't know they were criminally negligent, if they did know they were just criminal". (Although, in this case, I'm lacking the outrage)
Well, if all companies took that logic, there would be thousands of underaged, underpaid kids in factories. It's not about them hiring them, it's about them condoning or condemning the factories behaviour, by checking who works their
I wasn't justifying it, I was saying the story is overblown. Chances are Apple fixed it fast. The article is trying make it look like they're hiring 5 year olds to do hard labor.
Child labor? Lol I was hired by the city of Chicago (by Mayor Daley) at the age of 13! Shut up! Also, not a fanboy, True Apple hater, AppStore lover.
Not sure where to go with this. On the one hand, we condemn child labor. On the other, we are shocked by the amount of children who live in poverty around the world. The world is what it is.
There are thousands of underage kids working in factories around the world. And we (I mean people in the developed world) are all complicit. Singling out Apple is just linkbait.
They do check. Lots of people check, how do you think they get found out? There are a load of different organizations that work cooperatively with companies to try and reduce this kind of thing. Not knowing it's happening is, in fact, a pretty good excuse provided they were performing the regular required checks. You're epic-winning the most fanboy-esque comment I've ever heard from the biggest MS fanboy on the forum? The fact he's putting these comments down to fanboyism is just desperation on his part, it really brings to light just how pathetic his cheap attempts to attack Apple for no reason are. If he seriously thinks that a company like Apple would actively support child labor then he's got a screw missing, or... most screws missing.
