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Does grey mean zero or about 80?

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No surprise here that China is a powerhouse for electronics 🤷‍♂️

Powerhouse for near slave labour

Even in the US we have minimum wage which just translates to the lowest wage possibly paid by an employer before it's slave labor. And when you have someone working 3 of those jobs to make rent/buy food... isn't it basically slave labor anyways? Maybe indentured servitude is a better term.

The iPhone would cost about $20k if it was 100% made in America with American $7/h minimum wage workers

On the contrary side... imagine how cheap your burgers would be if we used slave labor techniques... instead I need to make some $7/hr worker make me a $15 McDonald's meal that would cost them 2 hrs of work to purchase themselves.

I'm not at all saying you're wrong. But slave labor is justtttttttt about everywhere, even if they call it things like 'minimum wage'.

Read up (if you haven't already) on the early Banana Republic and how those people were treated just for the US to get bananas.

This applies to all global industries... someone is getting exploited for someone else's benefit.

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Grey means it is not mentioned in the document, therefore officially it is not part of the Apple supply chain.

Data source: https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/pdf/Apple-Supplier-List.pdf Program used: https://app.datawrapper.de/select/map

It means op shouldn't use a divergent color scale for data that is not divergent

Good luck driving to China just to get a few $ discount off a burger

But grey is also the middle of your scale. Why is the scale blue to grey to red instead of just one color that gets darker?

I am fortunate enough to be able to afford to pay borderline slave labor workers to cook shitty burgers they can barely afford themselves

Because I didn't think to change the default scale, I might look to change it based on this feedback though.

Sounds good. If there was a county with a value of 80, wouldn’t it be grey as it is.

McDonald's actually pays $10 minimum as a company policy. And locally their crap burgers cost $6-8. And they get emoloyee discounts (50٪ off or free meal). Just pointing that out.

Source: husband was a shift manager until recently

Edit: added discount info

Totally fair! I just think people tend to glorify the American work force and don't really understand how most of that labor is treated.

I've worked in the food service industry for just over 15 years from washing dishes to managing the grocery department of a $1mil/week store and it's pretty shitty all around despite doing pretty well for myself.

Just my experience/opinion!

You shouldn’t use a divergent color scheme for a continuously increasing value. Plus the grey seems to be in the scale.

Agreed, I'm just a little sensitive about minimum wage discussion specifically involving McDonald's as a base. Mostly because it's usually erroneous and most federal minimum wage discussion does not include local cost of living.

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Is OP suggesting Trillion dollar companies aren’t being honest with us? 🫢

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That is possibly what I am potentially suggesting might happen.

iPhones haven't had batteries in years. If they did, we'd be able to open the back to change it out when it runs down! Some people.....

What are you referring to regarding DRC? A quick search finds recent info that Apple cut off suppliers sourcing from DRC. Your source also appears to be direct suppliers only so there would be an absence if they don't have direct suppliers in DRC.

Interesting graph, but I have some questions regarding OP's title of registered company. For example, Pegatron and Foxconn are companies headquartered in Taiwan, but the source doesn't list headquarters location but only lists multiple "primary manufacturing locations" for each company such mainland China, Japan, Brazil, etc. Does this then mean that a single company are counted in multiple countries? Or are only the country of the headquarters counted? Or the country of where they are registered?

Thanks for sharing the graph and especially the source, which is fascinating.

An off-the-record source told me that their company did not declare doing business with comapnies in the DRC because the fine (usually around 10,000 USD but varies of course) was easier to pay than dealing with the fallout from dealing with what is in reality for the most part a very corrupt government and therefore by listing a company in the DRC one was essentially admitting to paying bribes to the DRC government. Again, that is off-the-record so the source cannot be quoted directly or revealed but I have reason to trust in its validity which is studies of other companies (those involved in cobalt and coltan mining for example) in which case there were absolutely bribes taking place.

That‘s not the definition of a battery

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