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Originally Posted by Azure
The iPhone is cheaper in labor hours because Foxconn and China have made an agreement to treat their workers like slaves who work, sleep and basically just LIVE to make the iPhone. The factory is setup in such a way that a worker at the iPhone plant has no other life than doing just that.
Obviously that won't happen in North America. And apparently we are okay with that because we love giving Apple billions upon billions in profit every year to keep the labor cost of the iPhone down.
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Their workers are also more productive per hour worked. But yes the exportation of slavery to a place where we can't see it and they can't rebel is responsible for a good chunk of what we consume.