Apple slaves revolt, destroy factory over $7/month pay

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[@RichSmithson]

7$ a month, meanwhile Apple wants to lecture me about social issues.

[@vashlash6870]

Very good rhetoric. I always point out which side a person is on in politics. At the end of the day, politics is about friend enemy distinction. Just point out to these people like you did. They're on the side of global financial elites. Drill that home baby!

[@lecookie007]

Don't worry that's why they're taking the charger out, smaller box, less waste.

[@lolnicht3805]

@@lecookie007 😂😂😂yep just that most people will get a new one anyway, to use the fastest super charger thing

[@55_reasons_why74]

1000 dollar screen stand

[@jodinha4225]

There’s a reason they don’t lecture you about economic issues. They may have great employment practices when it comes to discrimination, but when it comes to the economic rights of consumers and workers? Well that might interfere with profits...

[@michaeltyers7336]

People in first world countries: "If we demand higher wages, they'll ship our job overseas!" People in third world countries: "If we demand higher wages, they'll ship our job overseas!" People in India: "BURN THE FACTORY DOWN!" Go India.

[@Mr.Potato23]

😁 As an Indian, I can confirm.

[@michaeltyers7336]

@mug wump that's cause people keep paying them $7/month

[@Mr.Potato23]

@mug wump 🥺🥺

[@falcon127]

THE ENTIRE WORLD IS CHANGEING

[@themartianway]

All jokes aside, this is the correct response to companies trying this shit.

[@FBI_Overlord]

Being an Indian I can confirm 7 dollars a month is a joke even by our standards. I am a masters student and I get 200 dollars per month as stipend.

[@MsIrrealis]

Go get em boy. Congrats on your success! Wish you the best!!

[@setter_soul_waifu0930]

Exactly, 7/month is so extreme, why does the government of India permitted that kind of salary. 200 dollars is very low but it's the basic salary for entry level labor jobs but 7??!! really apple 7?! that's just straight up slavery.

[@Titantitan001]

Hope you are well. I hate to hear about this slave labor type of stuff. But the Bible talks about this stuff. The empires will only get worse as time goes on.

[@WolframSilver]

@@Titantitan001 The Bible doesn't have a problem with people owning slaves.

[@akshayrathore2882]

@Akkszz He is talking about stipend, not his pay after finishing masters.

[@bhangrafan4480]

"Protecting the employees' right to work" is an old euphemism for strike breaking.

[@M167A1]

There are two sides to every strike. Strike breaking in the US for example (I work in areosoace) is frequently the right thing to do, the machine is Union is so political it's chased all our jobs away.

[@johanmetreus1268]

@@M167A1 of course there are at least two sides to every strike. Being a blackfoot scab never helps the workers though.

[@me700gnomes]

@@M167A1 Unions are still an unambiguously good social and political force. In the US many have either been co-opted by the power of captial or simply aren't actually unions.

[@bhangrafan4480]

@@M167A1 I accept there is some truth in this, but it's like a blind auction. No one really knows what their job is worth till management is pushed. Secondly if bigger profits can be made by exporting jobs overseas that is going to happen anyway, whatever the union does. Under globalisation there has ben a mass exportation of manufacturing jobs to east Asia and elsewhere. Costs of living are different in different regions, so a US worker is not going to be able to live on what a Chinese worker earns. Liberalising the global economy has the potential to level everyone down.

[@me700gnomes]

@Bob Watters as I said many unions in the US are captured by capital and they must be changed so I’m not sure we disagree. However, from the the early 1900’s to the 70’s they served an important role in challenging power that no other institutions can replace and we need to bring that back.

[@alexp974]

“Slave labor is bad” You gonna get kicked off youtube for coming after China like that.

[@corradoalamanni179]

Here someone wants to be banned for wrongthink

[@alindsey3409]

2 points have been deducted from your social credit score for this post.

[@rubberuke]

I'm hoping they either ban me for life or "come take it"

[@demonvictim]

Think that a little kid selling lemonade that are just lemon powder and water with a paper cup is making as much as a Apple subcontractor employee makes a month in a afternoon

[@imalionimaqueen7234]

As soon as there is a suitable platform that offers freedom of speech I am leaving KZbin.

[@dominicc1986]

Louis. I live in India, Rs.8000 and Rs.12000 is totally useless to support a family of three. Rs.16000 is hand to mouth level with zero savings. This is especially true when you consider how the cost of living has risen dramatically in 2020. These incidents make me have utter hatred for companies like Apple who give zero f**ks about people, including their own customers.

[@07wrxtr1]

Yup; I really really enjoyed my 2nd grader style of LECTURE from the “genius bar” employee whom scoffed at the concept of having a removable battery as being too dangerous. He flipped his ponytail when I mentioned that one can change a car battery just fine without any issues but all of a sudden doing the same with an iphone 6 would be the equivalent of the risk tier similar to a nuclear meltdown chrenoble style. This will be my last Apple product because I simply don’t want to support the sociopaths in charge

[@pear7777]

@@07wrxtr1 wellll, according to Scotty Kilmer, even changing a car battery is not for the non mechanics, since you need to keep the computer powered... but no apple for me neither

[@largol33t1]

Dominic, your situation is one of many reasons why I refuse to buy Apple. I own no Apple products and refuse to buy them, even if they sold them at half price.

[@yalolol]

NEVERMIND I WAS SO WRONG

[@CrossSkullz]

Dominic C Don’t hate those companies. Hate your government that didn’t help and protect their people.

[@AGamerPS3]

As an accountant, this is why I encourage others to share pay rates among coworkers. The only person who doesn't want it is the one signing the checks. Power to the people.

[@ifonefan1147]

“Unskilled Labor” has been taken advantage by Companies for decades. It’s ridiculous and happens everywhere.

[@douglasrowland3722]

And how about that ''TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT''....TEMP WORKER SCANDAL THING ????!

[@rakebluewallgaming6185]

Yea just because you don't have a college degree in your field means that all your labor is pussy shit and deserves no mercy

[@douglasrowland3722]

@@rakebluewallgaming6185 We will see how you like it when your viscera is applied to YOU !

[@noesunyoutuber7680]

@@douglasrowland3722 He's being sarcastic, the whole point is that saying something like that is stupid.

[@douglasrowland3722]

@@paulvideo05 It's gonna result in a GIGA-BITE !!!!!! (OUCH !)

[@justicewarrior9187]

Funny how this didn't make the news anywhere

[@GabrielleTollerson]

i know right

[@karamlevi]

Orange Man Bad training and addiction fake news marketing at its finest... American hate is focused on the obedience narrative to lame stream media and corporate guidance for globalism. There is no space left to hate what’s actually flagrant living evil rather than a soap opera villain.

[@justicewarrior9187]

@@karamlevi Not even in Europe this was news

[@charliezxi]

India just formed the largest general strike in known history. U.S. News:

[@ginablanken3120]

yet our country did better than it has in a very long time . unemployment broke records it was so low . not to mention my 401k was fat too.. and he did all that while defending himself. and what have you done ???? if you have a better way .... then get on with it, and get it going

[@jimfrench2001]

Employees: We would like a living wage. Apple: Think Differently

[@karlenglewood8940]

That phrase is too grammatically correct for Apple.

[@Nukestarmaster]

Honestly that tagline starts to sound downright sinister as soon as you start looking into Apple's bullshit.

[@mexreax4493]

You mean capitalism

[@simonspacek3670]

@@mexreax4493 No, this in to capitalism problem, this is outsourcing problem. What China said? "This is what happens when you do not use China workforce" or whatever bullshit? China is communist country and therefore humans are worthless. And if they complain, they will get punished.

[@mexreax4493]

@@simonspacek3670 its capitalism dude.

[@shubhamnarayan2077]

GDP of india : 2.5 Trillion USD Apple's Value ~ 2 Trillion USD India's debt to GDP : 0.8 Apple is so big , it can support my country financially for a whole year with everything going on as normal and yet they are paying 160 $ a month to an engineer. For context , i am renting a home with 2 rooms in a fairly low income town and it costs me around 150$ a month (Rent+Electricity). I hope things will get better.

[@chicoti3]

120$ a month to an enginner? are you serious? Isn't that a crime in India too?

[@hannie.haneul]

That's crazy. Engineers are among the top-paid jobs in my country. I bought like three Apple products (my artist frienss said iPad Pro is good to draw on the go) but never really like them, now I have more reasons to stop buying from them...

[@WhiteZorin]

thanks for sharing the numbers

[@kharkovluzhin8333]

@@hannie.haneul as an digital artist, somewhat of, i understand why they say so but i would recommend actual art device or better, a drawing tablets. I suggest wacom, but there's also other alternative, which i forgot name but maybe be cheaper and better than wacom tablets. Still drawing tablets is better and more professional than other regular tablets.

[@hannie.haneul]

@@kharkovluzhin8333 hi, i'm a webcomic artist myself so yes I can say from experience iPad isn't worth it 😅 It's good for drawing on the go, but for an actual drawing setup, I agree with you, invest on actual graphic tablet instead. Wacom is kinda overpriced imho, I use Huion Pro 15, much cheaper with better customer service too. I'm still looking fo a fully-independent wireless LCD graphic tablet with built-in OS. I bought Wacom Companion for like $4,000 some years ago and it crashed from overheating in the span of only 3 months, and the service center asked $1600 for repair. Biggest waste of money. So I just left it and bought a $550 Huion Pro tablet instead, never regret it since. 😂👌

[@zyugyzarc]

the problem with that 500Rs salary is that even if you worked for 500Rs a day, youll be barely able to buy cheap food, besides the costs of living and paying rent, bills, etc [source: i live in india]

[@thelouster5815]

I’m certain that American companies are able to set up shop and get away with giving slave wages because most people don’t have the time or interest to take a look at the intricacies of finance abroad.

[@ayushkumar-bg1xf]

In Kolkata 500 rs is what most labourers get .

[@hyperion3704]

@@ayushkumar-bg1xf Yep. It's the same here in the south. I'm from Kerala and we pay laborers Rs. 500 per job. They get around Rs. 1k to 2k per day. Rs. 500 per month is a crime. Remember that we're talking about Engineers here.

[@Wakka9000]

Are there laws to prevent assholes paying it's workers 7 dollars? Is it common in India?

[@zyugyzarc]

@@Wakka9000 there are laws, but the government is too curroupted for anybody to do anything about it.

[@BeastOrGod]

It's doesn't matter if the cost of living is lower there, these products are sold here for thousands of dollars. It's exploitation at highest degree.

[@77.88.]

Steve Jobs fought against management regarding fair pricing where everyone wins, he lost most of the time as the board of directors wanted to stay super wealthy at the expense of the consumer and they are the same today as they have always been.

[@dtphenom]

Who buys the products?

[@mrsleep0000]

@@dtphenom Self righteous tools who think they are moral and compassionate.

[@dingodog5677]

At both ends

[@admontblanc]

@@77.88. he should've thought about that before selling the majority of the stock then. Either Jobs was a hypocrite, or a naive fool, both are similarly bad.

[@soumyajitdeb3943]

I live in Bangalore. This factory is near the outskirts of the city. Bangalore is one of the more expensive places to stay in India. The government mandated minimum pay for any contracted job is roughly 300 rupees a day or 7500 per month. This in itself is extremely low and hard to survive on. To give you an example, income tax starts at 50000 rupees a month. Anything below is considered low income by today's standards. If this company was actually paying 500 rupees a month to its employees, it is not just cruel but downright illegal. Their management should be in jail for labor law violations.

[@viv3541]

True, it's nearly impossible to survive in Bangalore city limits with 7500/mo. But income tax starts from around 20000/mo. 50000/mo is still a decent salary in India which most folks don't make. Nothing will happen to Wistron though, there will be some 'meetings' and mutual ass kissing between them and the govt and this will be soon forgotten. Maybe they'll raise the salaries by 5% and carry on. Apple, their new products and treatment of workers truly sickens me to the core. All the more reason not to buy their overpriced junk.

[@atropabelladonna3120]

Meanwhile the government pretends not to notice, see or care with their pockets full. An unfortunate reality in many countries not just India.

[@mickeyagrawal2001]

@@atropabelladonna3120 Govt doesn't have closed eyes. It is listening to labourers too. It's just that the corporate machinery is so strong it's hard to please both sides.

[@ashwinrawat9622]

Xi JingPing pet 🐶 (communists) did it clearly.

[@WilliamBrinkley45]

7500 rupees equals $101.89 US

[@bololollek9245]

This is what happens when the workers realize that they have nothing to loose but their chains.

[@Bluecho4]

Slavery never went away. The slave holders simply moved slavery over to different areas. Whether that's outsourced to other countries, or to the prison system, or simply to slowly stripping pay and benefits from domestic workers.

[@billtomson5791]

Amen. Corporate slavery, the new feudalism known as globalism.

[@theeternal417]

Yeah, I've noticed Americans are seemingly oblivious to the fact that slavery is still legal in the US as long as it's considered to be compulsory uncompensated labor.

[@fluffynator6222]

@@billtomson5791 *capitalism

[@evanleighton2634]

​@Aluzky all those people who went to jail for 10+ years for having weed on them? not even selling weed you could get decades if you were caught 3 times back in the day, this country's legal system is way too fucked to have a right to do that, maybe if I was more competent that most of the people in jail weren't there for non-violent drug charges, which again should be people who need severe help, in my state there are entire towns addicted to opioids and heroin, it has become an epidemic and I have had friends who have died and gone to jail who were just regular kids who needed severe help that was unavailable in my entire state to them, and if you have not delt with this tragedy in your life you are lucky and must come from a very nice area because in the real world these problems are everywhere and we tret these people like animals instead of humans who are literally desperate.

[@SCHMALLZZZ]

@@evanleighton2634 only violent criminals dude

[@annefrank7380]

I work myself in electronics. The device we sell cost similar as much as an iPhone 12 max pro and is 100% made in Germany. Our device costs 260 € in production. That includes everything even the high wages from the union contract, high energy costs, maintainance, marketing, delivery. A simple working woman get 2000 €/ month after tax, health insurances, unemployment insurance, retirement insurance, nursing insurance fees. The employer pays around 3700€ for that working force. A maintainance person earn twice as much. And so it goes on. You know what? We sell it for 1400€ our profit is very high. Apple can produce in the USA easily without any doubt and make a good profit. The problem is that they are greedy as hell.

[@tonycullotta8528]

threre is greed and then there is uber greed apple is uber greed

[@joselaw6669]

Nice name for a german. What kind of device does your company sell?

[@eldhosepeter6894]

Well you are rich in our terms. In India due to covid they reduced salary to 8000rs.

[@madwolf0966]

Is this a joke or legitimate with a meme name? Lol.

[@lbfourtwenty4163]

Germany is such a great nation of wonderfull kind hearted non-nazis these days its really convincing they are totally the good guys

[@Lull622]

Imagine paying a subscription for a news outlet that withholds information.

[@N3G4T3]

When I heard how much it costs a month, and did such a poor job at journalism, I was pretty shocked, I knew they were bad, but I didn't realise they were this insanely bad.

[@excitedaboutlearning1639]

You should read Edward Herman Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent to understand how the corporate media works. It's in their interest to be partial snd not give the full account.

[@N3G4T3]

@@excitedaboutlearning1639 Oh I'm well aware that they are biased and want to push a certain view, but after paying that much, surely they'd provide somewhat more information.

[@lordMaroza]

Imagine paying a news company for anything...

[@bythedog]

Why give Bloomberg a dime?!?

[@misterstudentloan2615]

I am from India, Louis has explained the situation in great detail and accuracy. Really happy that you have talked about this, it was shocking that most if not all big news agencies in the West had not talked about it.

[@jameschu8376]

Most of the western media are owned by millionaires and billionaires who profit from this so of course they won't cover it.

[@siberiaswan4060]

Of course not, because this incident showcases the power of a "worker" with nothing to lose and America has millions of people in similar situations.

[@renaigh]

I'd like to see an Undercover Boss at one of these factories

[@rootstoblossomhomestead991]

Undercover Ross

[@AlbertYonson]

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[@omgtwlol]

What for, Boss sits in his office and laughts his ass off.

[@renaigh]

@@omgtwlol I'd think it'd be funny to watch the privileged suffer.

[@omgtwlol]

@@renaigh this is not an answer. We do not need another October revolution. It took russia almost 100 years to go back to the grain production numbers of pre revolution times. What we need is justice, not revange. Courts should look into it, with people picketing outside, they might just convict those boses.

[@Crowbar11115]

Apple to the little man- "You have no Right to repair!" Apple to their slaves- "We have the right to despair!"

[@exiled373]

Nice

[@firmman4505]

This is Wistron.

[@matj3296]

Comment of the day 👍

[@firmman4505]

@@matj3296 but that's Wistron not Apple

[@matj3296]

@@firmman4505 yes I am aware of that

[@Trollificusv2]

"journalism"? "Bloomberg"? Well there's your mistake, right there. You've got words that don't go together in close juxtaposition.

[@fisiorking]

Oxymoron comes to mind.

[@wilsdomain]

@@fisiorking Exactly! The association of Bloomberg and journalism constitutes “an oxymoron.” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ppunion]

Repair jobs reduces slave labor, helps the environment, increases tax revenue, gives the consumers better and more options with their products.

[@Silverdev2482]

but it doesn’t make more money and money is #1 priority

[@theknave4415]

e.g. from historic America - Until relatively recent times: Coal miners, before labor unions. Buy food and clothing at the company store, rent a shack from the company, etc. By the time you paid the company for everything, you had virtually nothing left to spend on anything else. otoh, you had a job and could feed and clothe your family. But, financially speaking you were stuck. You couldn't advance economically, and you couldn't get out of poverty.

[@Sarafimm2]

Plus coal miners ended up dying from black lung.

[@p.b.4885]

That what is going on in all the word!!!!

[@chrisparrish6229]

This is why our politicians love sending jobs overseas-it really pleases their corporate masters.

[@randysanchez1397]

Not only that just cheaper to employ people in those countries a lot less regulations just cheapest to literally hire not only pay ya know what cost 10k to hire a person would cost like 100$ so moving a company with say 200,000 employees can save me like 2 million dollars in just the hiring process alone not even including the wage difference it’s actually quite interesting

[@raiserofchickens]

And then the business sponsors these overseas workers to come to North America, dangles citizenship in front of them and puts them to work for less than minimum wage while pushing out the local workforce.

[@stefanbatory8565]

Leftists who demand 17$/h minimum wage(supported by huge corporations) wont tweet about that on their apple laptops.....

[@DavidLopez-en6el]

@@stefanbatory8565 we do? Being against the exploitation of labor is the foundation of leftist thought? Also we don't use apple products, we're not libs.

[@liquidsnake6879]

​@@DavidLopez-en6el I know plenty of would-be Che Guevaras who own iPhones and iPods, dunno about Macs tbh but i bet they also have those lol and the fact of the matter is no one among American leftist cycles truly gives a rats tail about people outside America, for example, while leftists scream at me about BLM and Covid, i'm drowned out trying to talk about the desperate famine situation in africa caused by worldwide lockdowns and you think any of them give a damn? It's all about showing that you're a good person, you don't actually need to be one, just pretend that you are for other people and that's why time and again they get accused by us of hypocrisy.

[@nolainnogain]

“Half the information” is basically the tag line for the US media.

[@firebirdstark]

Meticulously chosen to protect their “investors” and drive a narrative. There’s hardly a genre of news story that I take at face value anymore, you’re right

[@jamesrobinson9176]

"All the information that fits our agenda" NYT

[@hasselnttper3730]

Correct, that's their modus operandi.

[@johnmarkgatti3324]

more like 180 degrees from truth , evil corrupt swamp ,people are waking up ,cnn is reportedly 150 billion in debt .

[@publicguy1664]

Not even half. The bare minimum they can get away with while still "Manufacturing Consent".

[@nielsB_FPV]

This corporate tactic is used waaay to much: Virtue signaling as PR stunt while treating your actual employees like garbage

[@danieldobbs4853]

"Slave labor is bad" Ironic, seeing how you're working your poor cat to exhaustion

[@raven4k998]

lol yeah that's how it works slave labor is bad now how cheap can I get away with paying them before they burn the factory down muhahahahahahahahahahahaha

[@raven4k998]

@a bag of rocks no he does not he he pays them with a little cash and if the cat wants that kibble he has to wait for like 6 months for one months worth of high grade kibble lol

[@cameronkruger4333]

Apple builds factory in U.S. job listing: "must have BA in computer science entry level position with 10 years experience, $15.00/hr."

[@TouringWolf42]

More like 200 years experience with a further 10 years in extensive quantum mechanics.

[@davidkeys4284]

Exactly

[@ewcm1878]

@myvlogtubes cool story bro.

[@andythompson2009]

@@MyVlogTubes are you also lumping those poor undervalued university admins...? Think we're seeing something here...

[@jasonk1540]

"I'm a little annoyed at Bloomburg for the journalism they did here, because I like to hear both side of the story." Getting unbiased media in 2020 is like trying to find a decent product on Wish. Sure it _may_ exist somewhere, but holy crap is it an extremely rare sight to find.

[@cloudlove1]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@nickisghosty]

Weird everything ive got from wish thus far has been a decent product but then again i usually go for the free just pay shipping items

[@2ndprotectsthe1st27]

I get amused when I hear anybody surprised about any so called new media outlet not giving both sides.

[@ryans3199]

And he PAYS for it, that's the truly humorous part. 40 bucks a month to basically have trash delivered to your doorstep. Yikes.

[@jetah50]

Journalism is dead. it's just paid advertising.

[@scottanderson691]

That is the exact argument that you rarely see being made in mainstream media (and no I'm not a "fake" newser). The salaries that are being paid in these countries are not commensurate to the work being done! Excellent analysis Louis!

[@frankjennings4489]

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” -Upton Sinclair

[@vladimir0700]

What does that have to do with the video?

[@chubbs_tubby3360]

@@vladimir0700 I think it has to do with companies defending labor abuses or even just refusing to acknowledge labor abuses...because their profits depend on it. But I could be wrong

[@tangdao]

They just abuse cheap labour, think what they gain has nothing to do with them.

[@chubbs_tubby3360]

@@alexanderdvanbalderen9803 maybe so, but U.S. history is pretty stacked with labor strikes throughout multiple industries, strikes and revolts that cost workers their lives. The weekend, the 40 hr work week, the concept of overtime all paid for by U.S. workers revolting

[@chubbs_tubby3360]

@@alexanderdvanbalderen9803 If you think those strides have been rolled back and maybe it's time for common people to stand up for ourselves again, I'd be inclined to agree with you very much so

[@goes2112]

China: "Our slaves don't fight back" That was worth the thumbs up!

[@Zimprovizer]

No, but we once saw a news video of a young Chinese college student lay down in front of a tank in protest. Bravest act I ever seen.

[@lq7777]

They don't fight back because they know they'll be shot.

[@randalldraco3822]

They were jumping out of the windows to kill themselves, but we installed metal bars now. All sorted.

[@imalionimaqueen7234]

@@lq7777 or worse, put in concentration camps. Oh, I'm sorry, "re-education camps"

[@Daniel-dc4xm]

@@randalldraco3822 lol

[@InsidiousDr9]

I recall articles that "If we made iPhones in the USA they would be $1000". Hmmm.

[@GabrielleTollerson]

yeah as if they aren't already am I right

[@redx4013]

They are more than 1k now

[@imalionimaqueen7234]

Apple is disgusting....

[@mesanders1113]

They most likely mean the cost to manufacture would be $1,000 which would put the retail price around $5,000-10,000

[@SupHapCak]

I’m ripping off another quote about Nestle but If we can’t have phones without slave labor, maybe we shouldn’t have phones. Also if they’re 10,000 dollars, they’re not going to sell to a lot of people.

[@mre4u422]

the idea of $7/month is so foreign to me that i read it as $7/hour at first and was wondering why you called them slaves

[@OriginalCreatorSama]

$7/hour is still not a living wage for a full time job and therefore counts as slave labor. EDIT: i don't remember exactly, as this was a year ago, but i believe the video says American Dollars. So this is based entirely on that. I'm aware money is different in different countries, but i don't think it mentioned it being in another country? i may be incorrect tho.

[@killertigergaming6762]

@@OriginalCreatorSama that depends on where you are since money has different purchasing power in different places so it can be slave labor depending on the place

[@rockboy3970]

@@OriginalCreatorSama $7/Hour in india is pretty damn good for them.

[@Micromation]

@@killertigergaming6762 yes and no. Take for example Western and Eastern Europe. The only localised costs is property value and rent - Eastern Europeans earn on average 5 to 10 times less (except IT because remote work for foreign companies) than their immediate neighbors (!!!) for the same job. Meanwhile cost of food is pretty much identical, so are luxury goods. The cost of living being cheaper is relative. Is rent cheaper in Poland than it is in Germany? You can buy a pack of salami for 2 EUR or 8 PLN which is literally actual currency exchange rate. What is cheaper, 2 of your 1000 or 8 of your 1000? Yes if you convert currency it does appear cheaper. In practicality you realise it's the same % of your wage... number is not important, it's the buying power behind it. Just because you can live in Vietnam in pretty high standard for 300gbp a month it doesn't make Vietnam cheap for Vietnamese people that have to make do with their pesos...

[@Voskos]

@@OriginalCreatorSama it depends on where you live in greece a 7euro/hour is a dream job for most, we usually get paid from 3-4 euros per hour

[@luckyleafgaming3062]

"They don't care" No, they definitely care, they care to make sure it continues

[@iyxon]

"God forbid any of these millionaries take a 2% hit on their salaries to not employ slave labor" EXACTLY.

[@themartianway]

@myname ismyname "voodoo economics" George H. W. Bush.

[@revimfadli4666]

BuT tHey dEsErVe tHaT fOr AlL tHe vAlUe tHey pRoViDe tO sOcIeTy!!! If tHey dOnT liEk wOrKinG There They caN jUsT lEaVe!!!

[@UniqueBreakfastTaco]

thats just not how it works. additional costs are merely passed on, not absorbed.

[@hugofontes5708]

@@UniqueBreakfastTaco yeah, maybe they should, you know, pass these costs too

[@UniqueBreakfastTaco]

@@hugofontes5708 the amount of people that can afford a $5k iphone made in the US wouldn't offset the loss in sale of $1k iphones. I remember the backlash from the thousand dollar monitor stand....imagine the whining if people had to pay market price for non-slave labor goods. Everyone's against slave labor until they have to pay full prices.

[@5winder]

May God strike the "too big to fail" companies down... that mom and pop may survive.

[@martinsozola8526]

They are being smited one by one brother, karma hurts if debt is not paid

[@mssburr]

@@martinsozola8526 lol... World leaders can fix Big Tech owners little red wagons by doing just like Uganda... Just Block all their platforms from the country at once.. Money flow... Denied..lol And to add insult to injury.. create a department to monitor big tech.. "DMPD". Digital media policing department..🤣 And the next time they try to log in They will get a users agreement pop up that they have to agree to before getting access to their platform like they did to their conservative users...lol... 1. You can no longer block nor cancel accounts without permission from the "DMPD". This Violation can end in permanent country ban of all platforms owned. 2.Any Unjustified or unexplained downtime of monetized accounts without permission from the "DMPD" This violation that can end in permanent country ban of all platforms owned. 3.You can no longer shadow ban accounts Period. All accounts must be given equal access. This Violation can end in permanent country ban of all platforms owned. 4. Any Targeted discrimination towards accounts hindering traffic flow or visibility in search ranking. This Violation can end in permanent country ban of all platforms owned. All of the big tech owners would simultaneously shit themselves.. Big Tech:😲💩Nooo.. The World: FREEDOM ♫🕺♫ FREEDOM

[@susiebear3316]

AMEN!

[@susiebear3316]

@@mssburr WOW Uganda did this way to go Uganda... msn would never report on this.

[@matthewmenich4302]

Amen

[@luna775]

I live in a third world country, and worked subcontracted for American companies.. they always look for ways to reduce your pay, in a job considered to be ok in this country i do about 2, 25 an hour and gotta do 10 hrs a day, 2 hrs of that are not paid. meaning i can do more money flipping burgers at Mc donnals or doing your yard, depending were i would live maybe i could send a third of my salary back to my family, if i had one, meaning they would have my old complete salary for free in my country. Regarding life cost, most things, as in clothes shoes down to the fast food have similar prices to USA since the global market killed local business, crap related to tourism is cheap, as in beer, hotels, tourist trips, cigarettes and similar. To put you in perspective a nice house in a zone were you dont get stabbed may cost you at least 250k. With a significant other having the same salary we wont be able to pay for that house, and the credit interest rates are devastating... ergo no ideal house with 2 kids and a dog with a nice backyard cuz cant even afford the house let alone the 2 kids education and life cost, not to mention the gangs, violence and political instability from the entrenched oligarchy created when USA meddled with the banana republics just to have nice cheap fruit.. So basically the idea that one can work, be a decent citizen and have a decent life in these countries is unattainable unless you got lucky, have a massive talent for business or have old money and businesses, or maybe married a foreigner. Now the cartels and gangs are entrenched deeper working with the corrupted oligarchy in this countries.. and that's why you have massive latin american immigration problem... cuz all the money in the world would never be enough. It wasnt enough before and wont be now, that's why you don't have factories in USA, cuz you gotta treat people somewhat decently, so i hope these companies are happy when they manage to take money from the already underpaid subcontracted employees and btw, screw all this virtue signaling from companies like apple and gillette, apple wont even give you a charger for a 1.5k phone "cuz they are environment conscious". If they had any conscience they would not have slave labor and in the case of gillette child labor, for Christ sake, they cant even make good business decisions by paying better wages to their slaves so they wont revolt, but surely they have the time for the lawyers making frivolous lawsuits over "intellectual property and patent infringement" just cuz you wanna repair your phone..

[@yickter]

It's depressing that after ten years of work, those poor wage slaves still cant afford the latest iPhone

[@Jakeisranone]

Why do they need to have something they will never have the the time to use it?? Isn't like making bullets and haven't a gun??

[@evo2542]

Bloomberg: We don't know, they just started destroying the factory out of nowhere. They must be one of those anarchy groups or something.

[@anthonyvaught1030]

Antifa is a myth....most of been a racist white trump supporter.

[@nunyabizness199]

Little Mike's propaganda machine.

[@nunyabizness199]

@@anthonyvaught1030 You a lie in a grunt..

[@natedog69420]

"Trump supporters couldnt stand indian ppl taking american jobs and flew to india to burn down a factory putting thousands of minorities out of a good paying job" - literally probably cnn in a week

[@mssburr]

@@nunyabizness199 🤣 😂 🤣💀

[@WingmanSR]

I have never purchased an Apple product in my life, and I will DEFINITELY be continuing that trend.

[@mickk8519]

Same here.

[@FEMBT-yb8rh]

Hey. Why don't you conform? Didn't you watch the Apple ad? OBEY.

[@Shanboss277]

Tough stuff

[@GabrielleTollerson]

same

[@evinnra2779]

Same here.

[@averagephlogfan6475]

Your telling me a child built this phone, but its still too complicated to fix?

[@ultima2399]

Its just like the steel worker factory revolt again, the clock of history repeats yet again

[@anonr3171]

Apple: we care about the environment Also Apple: Slavery in modern world is fine

[@goobfilmcast4239]

Samsung, Dell, Microsoft, Intel, nVidia and other major Tech manufacturers make ALL their products from 100 percent sustainable, renewable, carbon-neutral materials in a manner that spreads love, happiness, rainbows, sunshine and worker-empowerment......All of them..... except APPLE !...... crAPPLE products are made from the distilled tears of hungry 5 year old Asian and East Asian children...... everybody knows that.....especially ALL the iSheeple.....it's the main reason they buy!!! ..............Bwaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha..... phew...BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH....................

[@signumxmagnum]

@@goobfilmcast4239 Please get some help..

[@CRANEREVIEWS]

@@signumxmagnum probably getting paid $9 a month to spam this under every comment.

[@Vlad-1986]

Hey, but these slaves at least got a all nice sterilized corporate environment to mingle. and office plant pots. Don't forget the plants! Maybe they can even chew on the leaves to sustain themselves while working and saving money for food! And they can work overnight, so they won't need to pay for a roof over their heads.

[@spacedinosaur8733]

Don't forget also Apple: We care about BLM, because oppression is wrong

[@Anonymous______________]

Apple will liquidate these particular human resources with those more co-operative towards the company's long-term corporate strategy.

[@MeatCatCheesyBlaster]

When you say liquidate you mean turn them into soylent green?

[@martinxXsuto]

Is there any phrase more inhumane than "human rescources"?

[@isocuda]

*2077 theme plays*

[@spartaxjp5073]

we need more double speak to add to this.

[@Anonymous______________]

@@spartaxjp5073 How about this? Apple intends to "think different" by liquidating the more volatile human resource asset's and replace them with those more co-operative towards the company's long-term corporate strategy and vision.

[@knightrider697]

This guy is just so good in making videos. That slight bit of sarcasm, always on point, concise. Subscribed right away

[@keithdouggosse2181]

I have to say from the pay scale you quoted for your own staff Louis that you are one of the fairest minded bosses ever! Kudos to you for that. Many business owners have made the mistake all too often of treating their staff as just a cog in their business machine to their detriment. The workers are the bread and butter of any business. Unhappy workers spread their aura of unhappiness . Customers pick up on it and before long revenue drops as customers begin to look elsewhere for a more pleasant experience in their business dealings.

[@andreii6938]

Meanwhile at Apple headquarters: "now we know, the limit is $6.80"

[@shiverbay]

Now let's price our headphones at $699 with 99% margin

[@firmman4505]

you mean at Winstron.

[@firmman4505]

@@shiverbay what headphones only cost $699?

[@overPowerPenguin]

@@shiverbay 10000% margin.

[@WilliamBrinkley45]

The average income of these workers was 7500 rupees a month ($101.89 a month)

[@1alayzzia]

That's why it's called virtue signaling: no virtue, all signaling.

[@HeatherMareeDesignStudio]

Right. It always seems like the ones making the biggest stink about "equality" are always the ones thanking China for being able to film next to concentration camps, using slave labor to build cheap goods that are sold at exorbitant prices, etc. Side note, apparently there was a study regarding virtue signaling - and no surprise but the people who do it are usually narcissists or psychopaths.

[@quentintin1]

the less virtue you have, the more you spread it

[@donteventripdawg932]

It's pretty mind blowing to know someone doing the exact same job as someone else in different countries has their pay throttled just because of location.

[@Saturnium_]

7$ a month is insanity. It's at the point where I just want to send a chunk of what I earn to these communities so that they can have a better standard of living, but that wouldn't fix anything.

[@rahulnimse2620]

I m from Bangalore where this incident happened. The riot happened because Wistron did not pay there employees salary from last 4-5 months.

[@moekitsune]

That's even worse

[@ummerfarooq5383]

Should have burned the place down after the first month

[@johntalak5453]

Dude I know people who have gone for years without a salary . They do steal at work

[@truedarklander]

@@johntalak5453 wage theft accounts for larger economic damages than other types of theft in the US

[@matthewblackwood9653]

@@truedarklander Blue collar get screwed the worst and they're the ones that need it the most. White collar jobs don't typically deal with wage theft issues because the company knows they can and will sue because they have the money to do it. So they don't try to screw them on wages, and instead screw them in less direct, more insidious ways.

[@kevinquinn7645]

Classic when Ricky Gervais called Tim Cook out over this at the Golden Globes.

[@Urban_Piggy]

He should have taken that as a warning to improve work conditions. You reap what you sow. Idiot should have seen this coming.

[@Urban_Piggy]

@spicy spice no not yet but if I was him I’d be disappearing myself just as fast as I could. He’s got a target on his back now. And he’s totally responsible for ALL of his behaviour and treatment of others.

[@YumegakaMurakumo]

Ricky DESTROYED the 2020 GGAs and it was GLORIOUS

[@batcittyatcitty536]

I cant believe Ricky didnt accidentally shoot himself in the back of the head with a gun hes was cleaning that doesnt own.Calling out apple,big tech,pedifiles.

[@pamelabrown3058]

❤️ Gervais

[@zaktryantel3152]

Very high quality content from Louis Rossmann in both his experience and knowledge as well as opinions and ethics who values his customers and cares for his employees by focusing on their strengths by allotting very fair wages for what they do. You're great dude!

[@nancyk7954]

Until I stumbled onto this channel and listened to what you had to say I had absolutely no idea how important and how much stand behind and support what you are talking about. From here on end I will gladly find a computer repair shop and without hesitation, buy a refurbished phone. I love your position on ethical treatment of employees, fair wages and I adore that you are a fighter. Thank so you much Louis. I get why you have such a massive following. Listening to you is fuel for the soul.

[@jeremyfortunethe1st]

Anyone remember when Foxcon installed suicide nets around their building? Nuf Said

[@enzoorciuoli328]

we butter,we pay u fer stain home

[@sasquatchcrew]

They really did? Lol thats horrible

[@pwnmeisterage]

Foxconn and EUPA were awful. Built like prisons, tall walls and gates and guard towers, workers living in small shared barracks-style dorms, off-time activities all strictly scheduled with mandatory attendance, meals in company mess hall (or meals withheld if floor supervisors unhappy), all shopping exclusively from company stores, no freedom to leave the site, constant authority presence, monitored communications, 15-hour workdays, dehumanizing and depressing treatment, shit contracts nobody ever walked away from, etc. But they still paid more than these Winstron wages.

[@UniqueBreakfastTaco]

saw them with my own eyes. horrible feeling when i went there...

[@jeremyfortunethe1st]

What people don't realize it's that whenever you purchase from a company that uses these factories you are paying these people to be treated this way. Our gotta have it now disposable consumer trends have gotten the best of us.

[@xm1193]

The bad part is, Apple products are already priced high enough to bolster the illusion that they were responsibly produced.

[@jesterlogic6886]

Mad respect for the time you offer to give attention to these atrocities

[@danielch6662]

$7/hour? That's more than what an engineer gets in India. Then I saw that it wasn't per hour. 🤦‍♀️

[@costcolawschool]

be careeful, the technocracy doesn't like it when you talk about their slaves.

[@Attmay]

The same reason the masters on the plantation didn’t like it.

[@jameshendricks7564]

F@$! em I don't live my life to please people I don't know.

[@joriankell1983]

@@jameshendricks7564 that's anti-semitic

[@Bearbones]

@@joriankell1983 ageist

[@joriankell1983]

@@Bearbones agoraphobe!

[@dyslexicsteak897]

When you cut the corners so hard you end up with a circle

[@JuancoPRoFlow]

🤣

[@pwnmeisterage]

My experience is that once a company realizes they can get away with cutting a corner, they'll spend whatever it takes to engineer ways of cutting every corner they can. They'll spend millions to save pennies.

[@alwyn7769]

Thank you for talking about it... Others are hiding the issue or unfair reports!!

[@AryonaSamoto]

"Your just poking them seeing how much you can get away with" .... sounds similar to the media and politicians

[@Jarvalicious]

Watching this on an iPhone “Man I’m a piece of shit”

[@alejandrocervantes4523]

Lowkey everybody in america is a wasteful disgusting piece of shit including myself, we really dont care about anything but buyung more shit we dont need. Its pretty fucked up what weve done to the planet but who cares

[@marcd7332]

I’m also a piece of shit but I need a smartphone for work, nothing I can do about that, but i don’t upgrade phones every year, I still use an iPhone 7 that I bought used and will continue to use until it stops working.

[@firejuggler31]

Always a “how do you do fellow Americans” in every comment section.

[@noblej7897]

Buy a librem 5. If you want only USA made down to the last chip and screw tho it costs a premium but they offer it.

[@paulcarroll6995]

@@alejandrocervantes4523 Its not low key at all, it just means that half of the so called protesters and activists who constantly lecture us about how we are all racists are mostly full of shit, and are actually supporting slavery. The self aware left in Western society are the worst people on planet earth. Would be better if they just learned to either A do something about it or B stay quiet. Louis is right about right to repair on every level. Rampant consumerism and Capitalism are not one and the same. At least the right wing dont make claims about fixing the world, they want to fix America.

[@montaukmagnifique8763]

“I don’t have a bunch of videos or insignia on my website with BLM, that being said, when I employ brown people, I don’t give them six dollars a month.” Right to the fucking point. This hits so hard.

[@superchuck3259]

Those without Virtue must signal it!

[@gmodiscool14]

blm = not cool u commie

[@gmodiscool14]

@Chris j ys

[@truedarklander]

@@superchuck3259 he's technically virtue signaling that he isn't doing those things

[@peppermintpig974]

For someone to argue they aren't going to pay people less than the legally mandated minimum wage is the opposite of virtuous or noteworthy. A good argument would be that you're going to pay people according to their merit without any regard to the color of their skin.

[@Persian-Immortal]

Thank you Times of India!

[@nate654]

You are my new favorite youtuber. Such blatant honesty you rarely see anywhere else.

[@ArcOfPotato]

It's ironic how Apple has such unnecessarily strict requirements and rules for "Apple certified" repair shops but will turn a blind eye to the literal factories making their products

[@jradical6159]

@CK Lim I feel like you need to read the comment again.

[@AznUzer]

@CK Lim Reading Comprehension 0

[@BloxStarzLifestyle]

No your not out of touch your 100% correct apple is eviel

[@garyfrancis6193]

Your? Eviel?

[@THEMAN-fl1ei]

Tyhe CEO is gay so it's OK. LOL

[@susiebear3316]

@@garyfrancis6193 Yep, play tone deaf if you want to... He spelled what he spelled!

[@garyfrancis6193]

@@susiebear3316 What?

[@joco8632]

Actually Apple has to manufacture on China due to trade agreements and big government big tech

[@hazembayado9521]

Love you Louis! Keep up fighting the good fight, Godspeed man

[@asifso5954]

Well done for putting a light on this 👏

[@rejvaik00]

I can't believe how quickly we've regressed to the point where repair is a _right_ we have to fight for 🤦

[@jamoecw]

people didn't fight for it when it was called 'pirating' to media shift. the same laws that prevent that prevent repair. if the 'right to repair' doesn't succeed then we will have to fight for the right to own stuff, and then the right for not having things we have bought taken from us unexpectedly. all of that has happened already to some degree under that law (the DMCA), but it hasn't really become common enough to be a reactionary movement.

[@ArcheWhatzitGonnaB3]

People didn't do enough to stop it when it happened with things like Tractors using software that prevents 3rd party mechanics from working on them.

[@violent_bebop9687]

You will control nothing, and like it

[@thecryogenicdrummer1110]

@@jamoecw We already don't own things. Ownership is merely an illusion. You don't get to _own_ and Windows 10 PC. Microsoft does. You merely pay to have access to it, so long as it's on Microsoft's terms and conditions which are subject to change at their whim. Same with your phone. You pay a fee to get to use it every now and again, but it's not yours. It's the phone company's. We are well on our way to the Great Reset. We have to start pushing back.

[@jamoecw]

@@thecryogenicdrummer1110 you are absolutely correct. the issue is that there are only a few things that are like that, if things don't get fixed that will be the norm rather than the growing list of exceptions.

[@commodoresixfour7478]

This is what pisses me off most about jobs leaving the US. Not only do we lose jobs but the new worker get screwed too.

[@truedarklander]

These jobs long sailed from the US, these actually left China for India

[@TheRiiiight]

Hell, even China is too good to their workers now for these fucking companies.

[@shockwave2291]

That's life under Capitalism.

[@chownful]

A system of world wide enslavement before the mass culling

[@skogib4846]

@Lyrical Gammster damn crazy maybe we should elect someone who will impose regulations on corporations forcing them not to offshore Oh wait we did that and yall fucking screamed and rioted

[@ironfoot9745]

louis I love you way you discuses this. Thank you for talking like a reasonable person and reporting the news.

[@marakeshg8112]

I never heard of you before. Never knew you existed. Now that I've seen this, I'm glad I watched. Thanks for trying to make the world a better place.

[@Jake295A]

Whoever can live off of $7 a month needs to teach me how to budget

[@jimmyboy131]

They can't live off $7 a month so they can't show us how to do it either.

[@werefrogofassyria6609]

One thing to remember is there is cost of living. Although the salary is very low, if the cost of living is equally low, then it is possible. In the United States, it would be impossible. The Werefrog remember hearing that 25 cents would feed a family of 4 or a week in Haiti. The Werefrog didn't understand how, until The Werefrog learned that there's currency conversion and different cost of living. However, The Werefrog won't defend $7 per month, especially when that worker provides value of a few hundred dollars per day to the company.

[@santinorider7536]

@@werefrogofassyria6609 A typical engineering job like this in India is around US$200/mth which still is not enough to support a family of three. $110 is the govt minimum wage for a young worker. $7 is an insult. How they get around the govt min wages is unknown. Probably bribes.

[@AboxofMonsters]

They can buy a bowl of curry chicken lunch for 60 cents so its like min wage work.

[@trulifrea8073]

@@AboxofMonsters fulltime work, even at minimum wage, should buy meals everyday, not one week of one bowl of $0.60 curry. Get real,or GTFO

[@mattpurvis927]

"We graciously provide you filthy peasants with $7 a month - and this is how you repay us for our generosity?!" - Apple

[@manuelsputnik]

Lmao

[@thelouster5815]

$7 is practically a death sentence.

[@deisk2707]

$7 is still death.

[@raven4k998]

7 dollars a month because we are not racist as we pay everyone doing your position the same 7 dollars a month regardless that's apples logic for anti racism

[@Alistairhasalongname]

@@raven4k998 except they don't because different people were getting different salaries

[@adelmohamed9311]

These corporations are lowlife and we must fight against them by boycotting them.

[@redbard4300]

WTF, how come I'm only finding out about this now? I know there's always been rumors of these kind of things, but I'd never heard any actual reporting, thanks for telling me this, I'm going to do some research on this.

[@sandrosadhukhan]

"Rampant exploitation" are the right words.

[@gorkyd7912]

More likely this is just poor people trying to start factories. Apple may pick the lowest bidder to build their products but they don't set wages, that's done by the factory. In cases like this most likely they didn't do their homework or were so desperate to land a contract with Apple they underbid, so now they can't afford to pay workers. Possibly there's corruption or mismanagement involved also. This kind of stuff happened in the US all the time too back in the day.

[@__Mauro__]

When someone spends 1000$ on an iPhone a pop up should appear "this phone cost as much as 12 years of work for the person who built it"

[@RandarTheBarbarian]

Not only am I on board for this, but I want it for pretty much every product. "This product costs (X) hours of labor for the lowest paid person involved in it's production and distribution at their current rate of pay" or worse for those who have slaves with 0 monetary compensation "A person involved in the production and distribution of this item will never be able to afford it at their current rate of pay"... Sure some people will probably still buy, but it's exactly the kind of bad PR we need for these corporations

[@limitedtime5471]

I would love this. Seriously, a lifetime of reminding those near to me that basically everything is made by slaves. Even anything made in america is probably prison labor

[@adammacer]

Nice idea but it goes, to differing extents, for almost every product sold in the 1st World

[@No0o0o0o0o0]

If you are talking about American dollars, it is incorrect to put the dollar sign behind the amount. It is written correctly this way $--- > amount.

[@louisefleming3117]

@@limitedtime5471 100%

[@ofarooqs]

I saw couple of Louis 's videos and thought he made sense, but then I saw the cat and it clinched it for me . Man knows what he is saying, even the cats listening

[@do0myk]

do you expect me to pick all this cotton myself?

[@youhavetoguessit]

And this is why I refuse to even have a single apple product in my house.

[@mesanders1113]

I'm sure you have a ton of slave made products from China in your house most of the clothes and shoes and pretty much everything else come from China

[@youhavetoguessit]

@@mesanders1113 I'm sure you have no idea what I own. Don't assume things about people, makes you look incredibly immature.

[@martinsozola8526]

Hell yeah to that. Work there myself yet I dont want to touch any of their constantly failing crap. Degoogled pixel as a phone and gaming linux laptop for games. Thats all I need

[@richardlee653]

Must admit that I like apple strudel, apple pies, blackberry and apple jam, and cider. Concur with you about electronics, though.

[@Zenith_269]

@@youhavetoguessit China produces so many of our products it’s a fair bet to assume you own something that was made using slave labor. The fact that your on the internet makes that even more likely.

[@ghostlylover99123]

The whole definition of ironic hypocrisy is "slavery is bad, but I can't afford the prices that a non-slave driven factory asks for"

[@firmman4505]

tell that to Wistron management

[@ghostlylover99123]

@@firmman4505 that's my point, people vote with their feet, they will always choose the cheapest clothing

[@patrickhayes3011]

The fact that Apple has the balls to not only use slave labor, but then turn around and lecture the rest of us about fighting for justice is absolutely infuriating.

[@klaasvanstrien989]

You're so right that it just literally gave me the shivers.. 😬 Keep it up!

[@NiranjanNanda]

“Silicon Valley sociopaths “ - that’s a burn for sure ....a good burn!

[@Max0r847]

They're secretly blushing with pride

[@user-pr9pq8en2d]

@@Max0r847 unfortunately you are right.

[@LarsLarsen77]

I call them censorious totalitarian cunts.

[@frepi]

Apple's virtue signaling is just a part of their marketing strategy, nothing else.

[@ronhempfield5043]

Yeah in the digital age at one of the biggest corporations in history, worth 2 trillion dollars, BTW in the digital information and technology market. That's kinda scary.

[@SahasaV]

All virtue signalling is marketing.

[@_Wai_Wai_]

Even though I am an immigrant to the USA, I fully support repair and reuse of older equipment, instead of the throw away, planned obsolescence of electronic equipment, and other types of consumer products (cars, machines, clothes etc....). Repair and Reuse is more sustainable for the environment. The reason there is so much Electronic waste shipped off to poorer countries is because of this throwaway culture in the more developed countries. It goes for clothing, and other consumer goods. Because all these things are produced so cheaply in other countries, many of these things are used for a short time and thrown away.

[@MrThegodhimself]

❤ one of the best channels on youtube, always intelligent discussion 👌

[@daviestj]

I was looking at the cost of living in india. The monthly utilities for a 1000 square foot residence cost an average of 3000₹. That's about $40 american. If my utilities totalled $40 per month and I only got $7 per month to pay it, I'd be upset too.

[@GabrielleTollerson]

exactly

[@jamesstevens2145]

The UN definition of absolute poverty is less than $1.25 per day. Obviously, $6.79 per month is well below this

[@daviestj]

@@jamesstevens2145 Every country has its own average cost of living. What the UN declares for absolute poverty has no bearing on the average cost of living in India. My example was just the utilities cost for the average home in india. No food, no rent, no mortgage, no transportation costs, etc. Their wage wasn't even covering one fifth of the utilities. I would call that as being forced into poverty.

[@jamesstevens2145]

@@daviestj for sure, but I think its really helpful to see how far BELOW the UN's level of "absolute poverty" these "wages" are. The UN takes into account the world minimum reasonable standard of living, but for sure the cost of living in some places will be considerably higher than others

[@AD-wm9if]

@@daviestj basically India needs to read Upton Sinclair's the Jungle. Not that I think unions are a good thing in the US at present, there's a huge difference between the power of American unions to dominate state budgets in pension costs and ensuring you don't get paid slave wages.

[@bubbysitch]

Apple: "Black lives matter, for sure. Their work, not so much"

[@rwwilson75]

I have been to China three times. China is lifting the poverty level for its citizens. I like to visit because it reminds me of the success and innocence we had in the 50's with a lot of optimism. We should really look inside ourselves instead of wasting time throwing shade.

[@jamiegoss8751]

That was the best sponsorship I have ever seen

[@PrimoPete]

$7 a month! That's way too low, even for a developing country. That's just not fair and is simple modern day slavery.

[@ronniechew6566]

It is more than the prison slave labor market in America. They earn 12 cents a day. That's $3.60 a month 😱 but they do get room and board 🤣

[@justiceforjoggers2897]

@@ronniechew6566 3 hots and a cot as they say

[@windywednesday4166]

The title is misleading, "Some workers claim to have gotten monthly salaries of as little as Rs 500 ($6.80). Most make a "basic" wage for the area but claim they haven't been paid. Wistron is the culprit and apple is investigating the company to see if it hasn't violated Apple's supplier guidelines

[@tessjuel]

A dollar a day is considered extreme poverty even in a low cost country. 7 dollars a month, that's less than 25 *cents* a day!!!

[@codecampbase1525]

Same work, same value. It’s shouldn’t be that different just because it’s a different country. At the same time, these countries are also need to work on their problems and the People need to stand up. We weren’t given anything either, which, to my surprise, is a common believe from people out of these countries.

[@MetallicReg]

@@codecampbase1525 This is not how international economy works. On contrary they should be glad that it is less than in the countries that place the orders. Because without it - they would not have any work and nothing would be paid. On other note - it may be that the payment is not adequate to what was locally committed to. This would be a breach of contract.

[@-haclong2366]

@@codecampbase1525 That's because of Neo-Liberal trade organisations that prevent any even mildly Socialist or Embedded Liberal legislation to be in effect and prevent labour unions from forming. Organisations like the W.T.O. often receive high bonuses from big multinational companies that oppress people in poor countries.

[@tessjuel]

@metro2002 Oh. Well, you can survive on that at least. But still grossly underpaid.

[@MetallicReg]

@@tessjuel Underpaid from which perspective exactly? From the perspective of a NewYorker who will spend more than that in one bathroom break or for a man in Kalkutta who could feed a family of 10 for a week with that money? Again you people clearly don’t understand how countries manage their economies.

[@mansoryO]

dude i remember the first time i saw your video and i decided to repair my 2015 macbook screen myself instead of buying a new one and it has still been working fine till now in 2021