Are you resorting to ad hominem attacks just because you're unable to defend your views with facts?
Apple's Chinese employees are allowed to quit their jobs. They can go search for a better opportunity. Slaves do not receive the same benefit.
There are 30 million people worldwide who are slaves, forced to be laborers, prostitutes, or child soldiers. They can't quit. Instead of making noise about that, you're attacking companies that are offering jobs at wages comparable to the rest of the country they operate in.
By
global standards, U.S. minimum wage is considered "upper-middle income" (living on $20-$50 per day).
Apple's Chinese employees are "middle income" (living on $10-$20 per day).
56% of the global population is "low income" (living on $2-$10 per day).
15% of the global population is "poor" (living on $0-$2 per day).
Approximately
91% of the global population works for wages below U.S. minimum wage, just so they have a job. Compared to
Haiti's bayakou (who earn $4 per day while standing naked in human excrement), the Apple employees appear to have a dream job.
You don't even understand why Apple doesn't simply double the factory workers' wages.
Instead of being outraged at employers, why don't you spend a few minutes
learning why things are this way?
By law, corporations owe a fiduciary duty to their shareholders. Apple is required to do what's in the best financial interests of their shareholders. If Apple doubles the wages paid to its employees, and that leads to reduced profits, which reduces the earnings per share, everyone who owns Apple stock has
the legal right to sue Apple for breach of fiduciary duty. Even if the majority of shareholders voted in favor of increasing the workers' wages, the minority who opposed it could still sue. In either case, the shareholders might not win the lawsuit, but it's a significant legal risk to Apple, just to "be nice". They can only
safely raise wages to the extent it's economically necessary (to obtain and retain workers, for example).
Corporations
do not have a legal fiduciary duty to their employees ... or to the environment, or to the communities they operate in. They just have a fiduciary duty to the shareholders. It's a
flawed law. But it is the law.
Rival,
You started off by asking why we teach kids to be good. I would like to revise my answer.
We teach kids the difference between good and evil, so that by the time they reach adulthood, they will be able to
differentiate between a company that is obeying the laws of the land, and a company that is actually engaging in actions that are evil.
