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tshwashere t1_j73a0s3 wrote

This will probably be an unpopular opinion, but I failed to see what is wrong with this.

There will always be shitty jobs needing to be done. And the way these shitty jobs get the workers are through proper compensation, and these workers get paid much more than other jobs available.

Before being called that I don't understand what they go through, I've been to Foxconn factories. Workers work in clean, A/C facilities with high-tech environment doing monotonous, boring as fuck jobs. But these people work jobs that are the envy of others, and there are always lines of workers dying to get into Foxconn because it pays that much better than anything else.

And as another redditor commented, factory jobs are the same everywhere, whether it is China or North America.

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oh-hidanny t1_j74cers wrote

As someone who's been to actual factories overseas, they don't have to have brutal conditions. Factory conditions actually vary.

But you are right about those local areas. Companies choose these areas because labor is cheap due to it being a developing country. Many of these countries are very poor and lack social safety nets. I remember reading once that a factory closed down in a developing country, and thousands of young kids were forced into the sex trade. It's a brutal reality that doesn't get acknowledged. If I was a 9 year old girl, I would much rather work 12 hours straight sewing than being raped by grown men all day.

That doesn't mean people should be exploited, but it also doesn't mean they have the average developed country life available to them.

Everyone likes to believe they haven't inadvertently supported these horrific working conditions, but at some point they have because ethical consumerism under capitalism isn't a reality. At some point, we have all bought a product that was made by exploited workers.

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khoabear t1_j73fn41 wrote

Truth, brother. Kids on Reddit are so sheltered that they don't know what life is like in the poorer countries. They never do backbreaking farming without machinery so they just don't understand. They should go talk to immigrants in the Western world to see how much they prefer capitalist factory jobs over the traditional agricultural jobs.

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