Comment by herdodoodo | Hacker News Reader

Comment by herdodoodo | Hacker News Reader

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I hope you can recognize the conflict of interest here. You appear to work at Apple, and that might just make you less likely to acknowledge the overwhelming number of unethical practices Apple partakes in.

EDIT: Sorry, you can ignore ^this^ paragraph - just saw your edit. My apologies for making accusations.

I find it especially interesting you attack Amazon over their disastrous warehouse workplace policies (you are 100% right to do so), and conveniently ignore the even worse manufacturing plant conditions that overseas Apple employees/contractors have to endure.

I should also add, Microsoft and Apple are the two cash-richest companies on the planet. They can afford to drop all DoD contracts indefinitely. They won't, and bad things will continue to happen to PoC outside of the US because of it. I hope, at the very least, you can acknowledge this.

I don't like it when anyone productive and resourceful collaborates with violent people for any reason. We're on the same page.

You'll note that I did not attack Amazon for their warehouse conditions.

No one is forced to work in an Amazon warehouse and neither is Amazon the only employer in any city in which they operate; if they are there working it's because they themselves decided that it was the best job option available to them, and it must be equal to or greater than their other job options, making Amazon's offer of employment a net benefit to them, or, in the worst case, equivalent to the second best job available. Until very recently unemployment in the US was at record lows, and there were many other jobs available and looking for staff.

It might be difficult to accept, but every single person who works at Amazon is there because they want to work there. If someone has decided that that's the best option for them, it's not my place to second-guess them (aside from the moral issues of supporting a company with the AI-drone-war inclinations of Amazon).

The same goes for the people who work at Foxconn. The plant where they put up the suicide jumper netting had a lower suicide rate, per capita, than the province in which it sat (even before the nets).

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