Smart Devices – The Annoying Truth Behind Wow

Smart Devices – The Annoying Truth Behind Wow

Discoveries of child labor exploitation media at electronics factories in Foxconn, China are probably not accidental, but common practice, but what of … it has come so far that many people cannot imagine life without a smartphone, tablet or home speaker with a voice assistant.

We welcome another smart widget spontaneously with Wow. Maybe life makes us better, or at least we think so, immersed in the bliss of “high technology” … The world’s largest electronics maker, Taiwanese company Foxconn, gave itself some cruel methods to work in its factories in China a few years ago. These were not one or two cases of worker suicide – they were usually jumping off the roofs of companies.

Foxconn makes Apple smartphones, the most expensive on the market, as well as modern products from other major US companies. The manufacturer is now embroiled in another scandal over poor working conditions at its Chinese factories. Exploiting Child Labor According to a Guardian publication, Chinese students were forced to work part-time at night at the same company’s Amazon Echo and Kindle e-book smart speaker factory.

The students are 16 to 18 years old. Such internships are legal in their own right, but students are prohibited from working overtime and at night. However, they were forced to do so by teachers threatened with dismissal by their employer. In addition, trainees are paid less for their work than full-time employees. Foxconn admits to British media reporters that it is aware of the situation.

The company also acknowledges that poor oversight of the internship program in the past has led to student overload. At the same time, Foxconn emphasized that all students were paid extra hours, but considered the fact that students worked overtime to be unacceptable. Working on a problem … A Taiwanese manufacturer claims to be working to address the problem of student exploitation.

“In each year, we have doubled the supervision and supervision of internship programs to ensure that trainees will not work overtime or at night under any circumstances,” the company said. For its part, a spokesman for Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, said the company intends to investigate the case and ask the Foxconn management for an explanation.

Amazon officials have arrived in China to find out details, and the company intends to conduct weekly inspections of working conditions, notes The Verge. Nothing old is forgotten This is not the first case of a breach of labor law at China’s Foxconn factories. In 2017, media reports revealed that students involved in the iPhone industry are working overtime. At the time, trainees themselves said they voluntarily chose additional shifts, but Apple sent representatives to China to ensure the practice was stopped. But nothing old is forgotten.

Today, a few years later, history is repeating itself, though it may contain the name of another company. It is very likely that the announcements made thanks to media reports are not cases of exploitation but a mass practice in Chinese factories. Increased happiness According to research from the beginning of the smartphone era, the touch screen of smartphones brings happiness to people.

We should be even happier now, as smartphones have become smarter, bigger and more functional, and along with them have come other smart devices and apps that have a huge impact on our lives.

Although there are some unpleasant truths behind wow exclamation points, they cannot obscure our happiness.

Smart Devices – The Annoying Truth Behind Wow