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In reply to the discussion: Your iPhone Was Built, In Part, By 13 Year-Olds Working 16 Hours A Day For 70 Cents An Hour [View all]think
(11,641 posts)40. Until consumers in the U.S. boycott products made using unfair labor practices
the song remains the same.
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Your iPhone Was Built, In Part, By 13 Year-Olds Working 16 Hours A Day For 70 Cents An Hour [View all]
joshcryer
Jan 2012
OP
I built my own computer using an ASRock motherboard. My next will be US made Supermicro.
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#7
For PC building you can use Futijsu TS mainboards in Germany, or Supermicro made in the US.
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#10
That's reasonable, from a purely capitalist business perspective, but it's against FCPA.
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#20
I think we, as a consumer oriented culture, just don't care that much. We want the "cheap stuff."
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#15
I dont see that as likely to happen with the trade agreements we have in place now.
cstanleytech
Jan 2012
#16
We'll see if they'll admit to the child labor practices or if they'll dismiss it.
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#27
Own a flashlight do ya... portable phone, how 'bout that backup battery on your logic board
Ellipsis
Jan 2012
#30
Not glossin'... just perspective. Own a cell phone? Then you've contributed 3.2 million deaths
Ellipsis
Jan 2012
#33
This sort of rhetoric is pointless. Merely using electricity, as you are doing now...
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#34
Americans LINE up for this crap, and make a HERO out of that asshole Steve Jobs
Skittles
Jan 2012
#32