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Thread #119036   Message #2578335
Posted By: CarolC
01-Mar-09 - 01:38 AM
Thread Name: BS: Chinese sweatshops/cost of your computer
Subject: RE: BS: Chinese sweatshops/cost of your computer
The answer is conscious consumerism. Hopefully there are brands and makes of computer that don't have any parts made in China. If so, people should by them.

Ours are Apple, Sony, and Toshiba. Anyone know if any of their parts are made in China?

Of course, avoiding computers from China may not solve the whole problem entirely, since there may be similar sweatshop conditions at computer factories elsewhere in the world.

The other unfortunate aspect of this is that for many of those workers, they may be grateful even to have those sweatshop jobs, since the current economic crisis is putting a lot of people in China out of work.