iPads, iPhones, iPocrisy

Click here to access article by Scott Nova from CounterPunch. 

While Apple and its competitors know they must pay lip service to concern for worker rights, lest their brand’s image be tarnished, the practical reality is that if worker rights were genuinely respected in places like China, production costs would be higher, deliver times slower, and profits correspondingly lower. The last thing these brands want is for any of the countries where they exploit low-wage labor to actually enforce their own workplace laws, much less comply with international standards.

My only criticism of the author's article is that he only can imagine reforms to the practices of these industries. Also when he makes the following statement, he diverts attention away from the system's logic and places it onto "today's captains of industry":

By the perverse moral logic to which today’s captains of industry subscribe, a corporation would never voluntarily reduce its profits, however modestly, to accomplish an irrelevant purpose like paying a decent wage to the people around the world who make its products.