Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory

Listening to Mr.Daisey was very interesting and much like Mr.Daisey I hadn’t thought about how actual apple products were made, I thought much like him I thought “Oh little robots put them together.” I really hadn’t thought much of it. I think it’s absurd how the workers are treated at these factories in China.

 Listening to Mr.Daisey I couldn’t help but think why our all our products coming from Shenzhen? Why do we let all our industry go over there? Why can’t we have apple build a factory here? There are simple answers that answer these questions. Government and taxes are the two big answers. Corporate tax rate plays a big part in where these factories are built. China has the second lowest corporate tax rate which makes building factories there appealing. In my opinion it’s not the corporations that are at fault, it’s a communist country. You can not protest, you can not have unions except for the “unions” run by the government, this allows corporations and the government it’s self to abuse its people in such ways as Mr.Daisey presented and many more. This being said I don’t agree with Mr.Daisey when he talks about how regulations will help, regulations will only let more abuse come in, and as seen with auditors the factories, just find ways around them anyways.

For American’s to stop buying products from China, or from any businesses that abuse peoples rights, would greatly affect them. Of course not everyone will, for the few people who will stop buying their products many people will keep buying them. Also we could build our industry back up to compete with them. Having factories over here we could make sure our workers are treated right. The people in the end are what will affect and make changes. People voicing out would be better than nothing BUT like I said building factories over here would be the best option. To do that the main things we would have to do our cut regulations and lower the corporate tax rate, having factories over here would also give our people who our out of jobs, work.

I believe that even though these circumstances are very sad, these workers are probably very grateful for having their job at the factory. If these factories were to be shut down they would be out of jobs. Of course they could have these jobs; with better conditions. We in America can take steps to try to help but sadly can not do much since it’s not our own country.