After reading this article, I was not 100% percent shocked to learn what was happening at Apple products plants in China. Our culture is known for having sweatshops, child labor, unsafe working conditions, and many more human rights violations for the sake of saving money. We live in a materialistic world, a world where efficiency, both cost and speed, are king over everything else. Big corporations, like Apple, do not show compassion or care towards the workers in the factories. Their actions leading up to and including the explosion at Chengdu, clearly show this mind set.
As an apple user, I do view the company differently; however, I also realize that this change of view will most likely not affect my use of Apple products. I have an iPhone. I use this technology everyday in life. Whether as a phone, music listening device, email, or internet, Apple products have become major part of my life. This article might affect my futures actions regarding Apple. Maybe I won’t but the iPhone 5, or for my next laptop, I will not get an Apple. However, even if I was to boycott Apple products, the other technologies I would buy would be no better. Dell, Sprint, Toshiba, all of these companies probably have the same poor working conditions that Apple does. As much as I would like to make a difference, I fear there is no way in today's society to do so. I do not mean to sound hopeless in this statement, but unless everyone in the world signs sign a petition or boycotts the company, the billion-dollar technology industry will not listen.
My consciousness has definitely been raised by this article. One day, when money is not as much of an issue as it is today, I will do my best to buy American made products or products that do not violate the human rights of others. I hope that one day disasters like the one in Chengdu will not happen. It is my hope for the future that one day; all humans will receive the basic rights that have been given to me. Furthermore, I hope that governments will protect their people from unscrupulous companies like Foxcom in order to ensure the safety and well-being of their people.
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