Louis. I live in India, Rs.8000 and Rs.12000 is totally useless to support a family of three. Rs.16000 is hand to mouth level with zero savings. This is especially true when you consider how the cost of living has risen dramatically in 2020. These incidents make me have utter hatred for companies like Apple who give zero f**ks about people, including their own customers.
Yup; I really really enjoyed my 2nd grader style of LECTURE from the “genius bar” employee whom scoffed at the concept of having a removable battery as being too dangerous. He flipped his ponytail when I mentioned that one can change a car battery just fine without any issues but all of a sudden doing the same with an iphone 6 would be the equivalent of the risk tier similar to a nuclear meltdown chrenoble style. This will be my last Apple product because I simply don’t want to support the sociopaths in charge
@@07wrxtr1 wellll, according to Scotty Kilmer, even changing a car battery is not for the non mechanics, since you need to keep the computer powered... but no apple for me neither
Dominic, your situation is one of many reasons why I refuse to buy Apple. I own no Apple products and refuse to buy them, even if they sold them at half price.
Orange Man Bad training and addiction fake news marketing at its finest... American hate is focused on the obedience narrative to lame stream media and corporate guidance for globalism. There is no space left to hate what’s actually flagrant living evil rather than a soap opera villain.
yet our country did better than it has in a very long time . unemployment broke records it was so low . not to mention my 401k was fat too.. and he did all that while defending himself. and what have you done ???? if you have a better way .... then get on with it, and get it going
I live in Bangalore. This factory is near the outskirts of the city. Bangalore is one of the more expensive places to stay in India. The government mandated minimum pay for any contracted job is roughly 300 rupees a day or 7500 per month. This in itself is extremely low and hard to survive on. To give you an example, income tax starts at 50000 rupees a month. Anything below is considered low income by today's standards. If this company was actually paying 500 rupees a month to its employees, it is not just cruel but downright illegal. Their management should be in jail for labor law violations.
True, it's nearly impossible to survive in Bangalore city limits with 7500/mo. But income tax starts from around 20000/mo. 50000/mo is still a decent salary in India which most folks don't make. Nothing will happen to Wistron though, there will be some 'meetings' and mutual ass kissing between them and the govt and this will be soon forgotten. Maybe they'll raise the salaries by 5% and carry on. Apple, their new products and treatment of workers truly sickens me to the core. All the more reason not to buy their overpriced junk.
@@atropabelladonna3120 Govt doesn't have closed eyes. It is listening to labourers too. It's just that the corporate machinery is so strong it's hard to please both sides.
There are two sides to every strike. Strike breaking in the US for example (I work in areosoace) is frequently the right thing to do, the machine is Union is so political it's chased all our jobs away.
@@M167A1 Unions are still an unambiguously good social and political force. In the US many have either been co-opted by the power of captial or simply aren't actually unions.
@@M167A1 I accept there is some truth in this, but it's like a blind auction. No one really knows what their job is worth till management is pushed. Secondly if bigger profits can be made by exporting jobs overseas that is going to happen anyway, whatever the union does. Under globalisation there has ben a mass exportation of manufacturing jobs to east Asia and elsewhere. Costs of living are different in different regions, so a US worker is not going to be able to live on what a Chinese worker earns. Liberalising the global economy has the potential to level everyone down.
@Bob Watters as I said many unions in the US are captured by capital and they must be changed so I’m not sure we disagree. However, from the the early 1900’s to the 70’s they served an important role in challenging power that no other institutions can replace and we need to bring that back.
People in first world countries: "If we demand higher wages, they'll ship our job overseas!" People in third world countries: "If we demand higher wages, they'll ship our job overseas!" People in India: "BURN THE FACTORY DOWN!" Go India.
When I heard how much it costs a month, and did such a poor job at journalism, I was pretty shocked, I knew they were bad, but I didn't realise they were this insanely bad.
You should read Edward Herman Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent to understand how the corporate media works. It's in their interest to be partial snd not give the full account.
@@excitedaboutlearning1639 Oh I'm well aware that they are biased and want to push a certain view, but after paying that much, surely they'd provide somewhat more information.
As an accountant, this is why I encourage others to share pay rates among coworkers. The only person who doesn't want it is the one signing the checks. Power to the people.
Meticulously chosen to protect their “investors” and drive a narrative. There’s hardly a genre of news story that I take at face value anymore, you’re right
Exactly, 7/month is so extreme, why does the government of India permitted that kind of salary. 200 dollars is very low but it's the basic salary for entry level labor jobs but 7??!! really apple 7?! that's just straight up slavery.
Hope you are well. I hate to hear about this slave labor type of stuff. But the Bible talks about this stuff. The empires will only get worse as time goes on.
GDP of india : 2.5 Trillion USD Apple's Value ~ 2 Trillion USD India's debt to GDP : 0.8 Apple is so big , it can support my country financially for a whole year with everything going on as normal and yet they are paying 160 $ a month to an engineer. For context , i am renting a home with 2 rooms in a fairly low income town and it costs me around 150$ a month (Rent+Electricity). I hope things will get better.
That's crazy. Engineers are among the top-paid jobs in my country. I bought like three Apple products (my artist frienss said iPad Pro is good to draw on the go) but never really like them, now I have more reasons to stop buying from them...
@@hannie.haneul as an digital artist, somewhat of, i understand why they say so but i would recommend actual art device or better, a drawing tablets. I suggest wacom, but there's also other alternative, which i forgot name but maybe be cheaper and better than wacom tablets. Still drawing tablets is better and more professional than other regular tablets.
@@kharkovluzhin8333 hi, i'm a webcomic artist myself so yes I can say from experience iPad isn't worth it 😅 It's good for drawing on the go, but for an actual drawing setup, I agree with you, invest on actual graphic tablet instead. Wacom is kinda overpriced imho, I use Huion Pro 15, much cheaper with better customer service too. I'm still looking fo a fully-independent wireless LCD graphic tablet with built-in OS. I bought Wacom Companion for like $4,000 some years ago and it crashed from overheating in the span of only 3 months, and the service center asked $1600 for repair. Biggest waste of money. So I just left it and bought a $550 Huion Pro tablet instead, never regret it since. 😂👌
Steve Jobs fought against management regarding fair pricing where everyone wins, he lost most of the time as the board of directors wanted to stay super wealthy at the expense of the consumer and they are the same today as they have always been.
@@77.88. he should've thought about that before selling the majority of the stock then. Either Jobs was a hypocrite, or a naive fool, both are similarly bad.
"I'm a little annoyed at Bloomburg for the journalism they did here, because I like to hear both side of the story." Getting unbiased media in 2020 is like trying to find a decent product on Wish. Sure it _may_ exist somewhere, but holy crap is it an extremely rare sight to find.
the problem with that 500Rs salary is that even if you worked for 500Rs a day, youll be barely able to buy cheap food, besides the costs of living and paying rent, bills, etc [source: i live in india]
I’m certain that American companies are able to set up shop and get away with giving slave wages because most people don’t have the time or interest to take a look at the intricacies of finance abroad.
@@ayushkumar-bg1xf Yep. It's the same here in the south. I'm from Kerala and we pay laborers Rs. 500 per job. They get around Rs. 1k to 2k per day. Rs. 500 per month is a crime. Remember that we're talking about Engineers here.
I work myself in electronics. The device we sell cost similar as much as an iPhone 12 max pro and is 100% made in Germany. Our device costs 260 € in production. That includes everything even the high wages from the union contract, high energy costs, maintainance, marketing, delivery. A simple working woman get 2000 €/ month after tax, health insurances, unemployment insurance, retirement insurance, nursing insurance fees. The employer pays around 3700€ for that working force. A maintainance person earn twice as much. And so it goes on. You know what? We sell it for 1400€ our profit is very high. Apple can produce in the USA easily without any doubt and make a good profit. The problem is that they are greedy as hell.
@spicy spice no not yet but if I was him I’d be disappearing myself just as fast as I could. He’s got a target on his back now. And he’s totally responsible for ALL of his behaviour and treatment of others.
I cant believe Ricky didnt accidentally shoot himself in the back of the head with a gun hes was cleaning that doesnt own.Calling out apple,big tech,pedifiles.
@@spartaxjp5073 How about this? Apple intends to "think different" by liquidating the more volatile human resource asset's and replace them with those more co-operative towards the company's long-term corporate strategy and vision.
I am from India, Louis has explained the situation in great detail and accuracy. Really happy that you have talked about this, it was shocking that most if not all big news agencies in the West had not talked about it.
@@martinsozola8526 lol... World leaders can fix Big Tech owners little red wagons by doing just like Uganda... Just Block all their platforms from the country at once.. Money flow... Denied..lol And to add insult to injury.. create a department to monitor big tech.. "DMPD". Digital media policing department..🤣 And the next time they try to log in They will get a users agreement pop up that they have to agree to before getting access to their platform like they did to their conservative users...lol... 1. You can no longer block nor cancel accounts without permission from the "DMPD". This Violation can end in permanent country ban of all platforms owned. 2.Any Unjustified or unexplained downtime of monetized accounts without permission from the "DMPD" This violation that can end in permanent country ban of all platforms owned. 3.You can no longer shadow ban accounts Period. All accounts must be given equal access. This Violation can end in permanent country ban of all platforms owned. 4. Any Targeted discrimination towards accounts hindering traffic flow or visibility in search ranking. This Violation can end in permanent country ban of all platforms owned. All of the big tech owners would simultaneously shit themselves.. Big Tech:😲💩Nooo.. The World: FREEDOM ♫🕺♫ FREEDOM
Think that a little kid selling lemonade that are just lemon powder and water with a paper cup is making as much as a Apple subcontractor employee makes a month in a afternoon
@@renaigh this is not an answer. We do not need another October revolution. It took russia almost 100 years to go back to the grain production numbers of pre revolution times. What we need is justice, not revange. Courts should look into it, with people picketing outside, they might just convict those boses.
@@truedarklander Blue collar get screwed the worst and they're the ones that need it the most. White collar jobs don't typically deal with wage theft issues because the company knows they can and will sue because they have the money to do it. So they don't try to screw them on wages, and instead screw them in less direct, more insidious ways.
@John Talak Arguably if you're still showing up at work after years without a salary, assuming you were entitled to a salary, then aren't you just hurting yourself? When do you mitigate your damages?
Slavery never went away. The slave holders simply moved slavery over to different areas. Whether that's outsourced to other countries, or to the prison system, or simply to slowly stripping pay and benefits from domestic workers.
Yeah, I've noticed Americans are seemingly oblivious to the fact that slavery is still legal in the US as long as it's considered to be compulsory uncompensated labor.
@Aluzky all those people who went to jail for 10+ years for having weed on them? not even selling weed you could get decades if you were caught 3 times back in the day, this country's legal system is way too fucked to have a right to do that, maybe if I was more competent that most of the people in jail weren't there for non-violent drug charges, which again should be people who need severe help, in my state there are entire towns addicted to opioids and heroin, it has become an epidemic and I have had friends who have died and gone to jail who were just regular kids who needed severe help that was unavailable in my entire state to them, and if you have not delt with this tragedy in your life you are lucky and must come from a very nice area because in the real world these problems are everywhere and we tret these people like animals instead of humans who are literally desperate.
@@hugofontes5708 the amount of people that can afford a $5k iphone made in the US wouldn't offset the loss in sale of $1k iphones. I remember the backlash from the thousand dollar monitor stand....imagine the whining if people had to pay market price for non-slave labor goods. Everyone's against slave labor until they have to pay full prices.
Not only that just cheaper to employ people in those countries a lot less regulations just cheapest to literally hire not only pay ya know what cost 10k to hire a person would cost like 100$ so moving a company with say 200,000 employees can save me like 2 million dollars in just the hiring process alone not even including the wage difference it’s actually quite interesting
And then the business sponsors these overseas workers to come to North America, dangles citizenship in front of them and puts them to work for less than minimum wage while pushing out the local workforce.
@@stefanbatory8565 we do? Being against the exploitation of labor is the foundation of leftist thought? Also we don't use apple products, we're not libs.
@@DavidLopez-en6el I know plenty of would-be Che Guevaras who own iPhones and iPods, dunno about Macs tbh but i bet they also have those lol and the fact of the matter is no one among American leftist cycles truly gives a rats tail about people outside America, for example, while leftists scream at me about BLM and Covid, i'm drowned out trying to talk about the desperate famine situation in africa caused by worldwide lockdowns and you think any of them give a damn? It's all about showing that you're a good person, you don't actually need to be one, just pretend that you are for other people and that's why time and again they get accused by us of hypocrisy.
I’m ripping off another quote about Nestle but If we can’t have phones without slave labor, maybe we shouldn’t have phones. Also if they’re 10,000 dollars, they’re not going to sell to a lot of people.
I was looking at the cost of living in india. The monthly utilities for a 1000 square foot residence cost an average of 3000₹. That's about $40 american. If my utilities totalled $40 per month and I only got $7 per month to pay it, I'd be upset too.
@@jamesstevens2145 Every country has its own average cost of living. What the UN declares for absolute poverty has no bearing on the average cost of living in India. My example was just the utilities cost for the average home in india. No food, no rent, no mortgage, no transportation costs, etc. Their wage wasn't even covering one fifth of the utilities. I would call that as being forced into poverty.
@@daviestj for sure, but I think its really helpful to see how far BELOW the UN's level of "absolute poverty" these "wages" are. The UN takes into account the world minimum reasonable standard of living, but for sure the cost of living in some places will be considerably higher than others
@@daviestj basically India needs to read Upton Sinclair's the Jungle. Not that I think unions are a good thing in the US at present, there's a huge difference between the power of American unions to dominate state budgets in pension costs and ensuring you don't get paid slave wages.
people didn't fight for it when it was called 'pirating' to media shift. the same laws that prevent that prevent repair. if the 'right to repair' doesn't succeed then we will have to fight for the right to own stuff, and then the right for not having things we have bought taken from us unexpectedly. all of that has happened already to some degree under that law (the DMCA), but it hasn't really become common enough to be a reactionary movement.
@@jamoecw We already don't own things. Ownership is merely an illusion. You don't get to _own_ and Windows 10 PC. Microsoft does. You merely pay to have access to it, so long as it's on Microsoft's terms and conditions which are subject to change at their whim. Same with your phone. You pay a fee to get to use it every now and again, but it's not yours. It's the phone company's. We are well on our way to the Great Reset. We have to start pushing back.
@@thecryogenicdrummer1110 you are absolutely correct. the issue is that there are only a few things that are like that, if things don't get fixed that will be the norm rather than the growing list of exceptions.
e.g. from historic America - Until relatively recent times: Coal miners, before labor unions. Buy food and clothing at the company store, rent a shack from the company, etc. By the time you paid the company for everything, you had virtually nothing left to spend on anything else. otoh, you had a job and could feed and clothe your family. But, financially speaking you were stuck. You couldn't advance economically, and you couldn't get out of poverty.
Right. It always seems like the ones making the biggest stink about "equality" are always the ones thanking China for being able to film next to concentration camps, using slave labor to build cheap goods that are sold at exorbitant prices, etc. Side note, apparently there was a study regarding virtue signaling - and no surprise but the people who do it are usually narcissists or psychopaths.
@@mexreax4493 No, this in to capitalism problem, this is outsourcing problem. What China said? "This is what happens when you do not use China workforce" or whatever bullshit? China is communist country and therefore humans are worthless. And if they complain, they will get punished.
My experience is that once a company realizes they can get away with cutting a corner, they'll spend whatever it takes to engineer ways of cutting every corner they can. They'll spend millions to save pennies.
That is the exact argument that you rarely see being made in mainstream media (and no I'm not a "fake" newser). The salaries that are being paid in these countries are not commensurate to the work being done! Excellent analysis Louis!
You are incredibly well spoken. You bring awareness to things that most have no idea exist let alone happen. Keep them coming. Your perspective points out things most dont notice.
"Trump supporters couldnt stand indian ppl taking american jobs and flew to india to burn down a factory putting thousands of minorities out of a good paying job" - literally probably cnn in a week
More likely this is just poor people trying to start factories. Apple may pick the lowest bidder to build their products but they don't set wages, that's done by the factory. In cases like this most likely they didn't do their homework or were so desperate to land a contract with Apple they underbid, so now they can't afford to pay workers. Possibly there's corruption or mismanagement involved also. This kind of stuff happened in the US all the time too back in the day.
Foxconn and EUPA were awful. Built like prisons, tall walls and gates and guard towers, workers living in small shared barracks-style dorms, off-time activities all strictly scheduled with mandatory attendance, meals in company mess hall (or meals withheld if floor supervisors unhappy), all shopping exclusively from company stores, no freedom to leave the site, constant authority presence, monitored communications, 15-hour workdays, dehumanizing and depressing treatment, shit contracts nobody ever walked away from, etc. But they still paid more than these Winstron wages.
What people don't realize it's that whenever you purchase from a company that uses these factories you are paying these people to be treated this way. Our gotta have it now disposable consumer trends have gotten the best of us.
@Lyrical Gammster damn crazy maybe we should elect someone who will impose regulations on corporations forcing them not to offshore Oh wait we did that and yall fucking screamed and rioted
lol yeah that's how it works slave labor is bad now how cheap can I get away with paying them before they burn the factory down muhahahahahahahahahahahaha
@a bag of rocks no he does not he he pays them with a little cash and if the cat wants that kibble he has to wait for like 6 months for one months worth of high grade kibble lol
Not only am I on board for this, but I want it for pretty much every product. "This product costs (X) hours of labor for the lowest paid person involved in it's production and distribution at their current rate of pay" or worse for those who have slaves with 0 monetary compensation "A person involved in the production and distribution of this item will never be able to afford it at their current rate of pay"... Sure some people will probably still buy, but it's exactly the kind of bad PR we need for these corporations
I would love this. Seriously, a lifetime of reminding those near to me that basically everything is made by slaves. Even anything made in america is probably prison labor
It's ironic how Apple has such unnecessarily strict requirements and rules for "Apple certified" repair shops but will turn a blind eye to the literal factories making their products
@@vladimir0700 I think it has to do with companies defending labor abuses or even just refusing to acknowledge labor abuses...because their profits depend on it. But I could be wrong
@@alexanderdvanbalderen9803 maybe so, but U.S. history is pretty stacked with labor strikes throughout multiple industries, strikes and revolts that cost workers their lives. The weekend, the 40 hr work week, the concept of overtime all paid for by U.S. workers revolting
@@alexanderdvanbalderen9803 If you think those strides have been rolled back and maybe it's time for common people to stand up for ourselves again, I'd be inclined to agree with you very much so
Fun fact: 2 Trillion dollars can afford you flights to China (essentially around the world) everyday for the next 3.5 million years.... and I rounded down in the calculations 😳.
Same work, same value. It’s shouldn’t be that different just because it’s a different country. At the same time, these countries are also need to work on their problems and the People need to stand up. We weren’t given anything either, which, to my surprise, is a common believe from people out of these countries.
@@codecampbase1525 This is not how international economy works. On contrary they should be glad that it is less than in the countries that place the orders. Because without it - they would not have any work and nothing would be paid. On other note - it may be that the payment is not adequate to what was locally committed to. This would be a breach of contract.
@@codecampbase1525 That's because of Neo-Liberal trade organisations that prevent any even mildly Socialist or Embedded Liberal legislation to be in effect and prevent labour unions from forming. Organisations like the W.T.O. often receive high bonuses from big multinational companies that oppress people in poor countries.
@@tessjuel Underpaid from which perspective exactly? From the perspective of a NewYorker who will spend more than that in one bathroom break or for a man in Kalkutta who could feed a family of 10 for a week with that money? Again you people clearly don’t understand how countries manage their economies.
Louis is a hypocrite, he profits handsomely off of Apple, in addition to these false indignation videos. The world does not need more hypocrites that profit off of slave labor like Louis does.
@@hillbillysmith7220 Louis profits by fixing Apple's fucking garbage, cleaning up after their messes, and repairing Apple products so that Apple's customers don't have to buy new shitty products from Apple. Apple does everything they can to stop him from doing that. What part don't you understand?
$7/hour is still not a living wage for a full time job and therefore counts as slave labor. EDIT: i don't remember exactly, as this was a year ago, but i believe the video says American Dollars. So this is based entirely on that. I'm aware money is different in different countries, but i don't think it mentioned it being in another country? i may be incorrect tho.
@@OriginalCreatorSama that depends on where you are since money has different purchasing power in different places so it can be slave labor depending on the place
@@killertigergaming6762 yes and no. Take for example Western and Eastern Europe. The only localised costs is property value and rent - Eastern Europeans earn on average 5 to 10 times less (except IT because remote work for foreign companies) than their immediate neighbors (!!!) for the same job. Meanwhile cost of food is pretty much identical, so are luxury goods. The cost of living being cheaper is relative. Is rent cheaper in Poland than it is in Germany? You can buy a pack of salami for 2 EUR or 8 PLN which is literally actual currency exchange rate. What is cheaper, 2 of your 1000 or 8 of your 1000? Yes if you convert currency it does appear cheaper. In practicality you realise it's the same % of your wage... number is not important, it's the buying power behind it. Just because you can live in Vietnam in pretty high standard for 300gbp a month it doesn't make Vietnam cheap for Vietnamese people that have to make do with their pesos...
Disappointed with lots of news organisations that report certain fact but leave out others. Also included is their opinionated reporting with the way sentences are phrased and structured.
The "journalists" are just doing the bidding of their corporate overlords. There is no such thing as a free press anymore, they are bought and paid for.
Hell yeah to that. Work there myself yet I dont want to touch any of their constantly failing crap. Degoogled pixel as a phone and gaming linux laptop for games. Thats all I need
@@youhavetoguessit China produces so many of our products it’s a fair bet to assume you own something that was made using slave labor. The fact that your on the internet makes that even more likely.
Yeah, where's my freedom to decide if I think slavery is ok or not, how dare this journalist call it bad? Oh, wait, he's doing an opinion piece expressing his own opinion rather than doing journalism, how dare he use his 1st ammendment right to voice his opinion, I'm big mad now 😂
The title is misleading, "Some workers claim to have gotten monthly salaries of as little as Rs 500 ($6.80). Most make a "basic" wage for the area but claim they haven't been paid. Wistron is the culprit and apple is investigating the company to see if it hasn't violated Apple's supplier guidelines
Reminds me of jordan nike's back in the late 80's .... Asian workers got paid two to three pennies per tennis shoes that were build by hand. Then sold in america for $70, $80, 100's a pair.
Marcus A. Rivera Your spot on. This was a omen I saw as a child living in the Bronx when people would spend money on Jordan’s who didn’t have any disposable income. I never felt oppressed when these facts were brought to my attention. This information was not foreign even then.
@@Tempist-Strike. kind of fucked how nobody cares that the loudest "oppressed to poverty" group on earth has enough money to pay a 5000% mark up on some frivilous fashion item made by an actual impoverished and oppressed person.
7 dollars a month because we are not racist as we pay everyone doing your position the same 7 dollars a month regardless that's apples logic for anti racism
@@vasili1207 yep slave labor is definitely wrong it's why I don't want our stuff made in China well in China there's something types of jobs where you don't even get paid so it could be worse I guess lol
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Hey, but these slaves at least got a all nice sterilized corporate environment to mingle. and office plant pots. Don't forget the plants! Maybe they can even chew on the leaves to sustain themselves while working and saving money for food! And they can work overnight, so they won't need to pay for a roof over their heads.
Yeah in the digital age at one of the biggest corporations in history, worth 2 trillion dollars, BTW in the digital information and technology market. That's kinda scary.
Actually around half the population (and climbing) do not have souls because they are evil created by Satan. In fact these big corporations have sold themselves to satan for money and power and whatever else. Some people are able to see into the invisible world and have seen a lot of the population are demons. Just like in the movie "They Live". They (those at the top) show us the truth in movies. There is more truth in the movies than in the news. For example: there is no virus. They are making people sick with radiation. At some point they will jack up 5G and people will be falling like flies and they will tell you it it the virus. If people would just shut the damned tv off and the damed APPLE PHONE off - there would be no virus. They will not stop - they want total control over every individual as they have done in China.
Lowkey everybody in america is a wasteful disgusting piece of shit including myself, we really dont care about anything but buyung more shit we dont need. Its pretty fucked up what weve done to the planet but who cares
I’m also a piece of shit but I need a smartphone for work, nothing I can do about that, but i don’t upgrade phones every year, I still use an iPhone 7 that I bought used and will continue to use until it stops working.
@@alejandrocervantes4523 Its not low key at all, it just means that half of the so called protesters and activists who constantly lecture us about how we are all racists are mostly full of shit, and are actually supporting slavery. The self aware left in Western society are the worst people on planet earth. Would be better if they just learned to either A do something about it or B stay quiet. Louis is right about right to repair on every level. Rampant consumerism and Capitalism are not one and the same. At least the right wing dont make claims about fixing the world, they want to fix America.
Nike and Adidas for ex have tiny production costs then pay sports stars millions to promote their products and make vast profits, the sports stars and Nike, Adidas have no conscience or morals
@@rudyinthesky4967 exactly this. I usually go for army painter stuff (Denmark) for my miniatures or local made stuff. Big tech stuff is usually slave labour status
In ireland more than half of the people working in the production line got "laid off" (they never call them back, has happened before) also as a janitor myself I've been treated like scum during the pandemic even tho we are constantly doing more work than ussual and having to respect their bs of where janitors are allowed to eat, have a break, times to smoke, etc. Everyday there is a new regulation to make our life impossible.
I'm a janitor too and I know what you mean but I gotta say not all janitors everywhere are going to have the same experience. Where I work, there have been lots of new regulations and things but if you work for the right company/have the right boss then things won't get as bad as what it sounds like it has for you.
I have to say from the pay scale you quoted for your own staff Louis that you are one of the fairest minded bosses ever! Kudos to you for that. Many business owners have made the mistake all too often of treating their staff as just a cog in their business machine to their detriment. The workers are the bread and butter of any business. Unhappy workers spread their aura of unhappiness . Customers pick up on it and before long revenue drops as customers begin to look elsewhere for a more pleasant experience in their business dealings.
The sad part here is that when you say "Why don't they pay them better?", they will say "But we would have to increase the price of our products!". Really, Apple? You have more money available in cash than the budget of a small country, yet you would HAVE TO increase the price :D An even so. So what? So what if the flagship iPhone would have to cost twice the cost? All the iSheep would still buy it. At least they could feel good about ALL the people employed by the production chain.
@@molagsballs the problem is that Wistron is treating their employees like slaves. Apple is using a company which happened to be like this. No one knows if Apple willingly did it.
@@firmman4505 as he says in the video a trillion dollar company should evaluate the working standards of the companies they contact to avoid using slave labour
Ask for a raise bosses start u low if you do the job well ask for one. Then open a coinbase app acct and start putting your spare change into bitcoin. It was $3500 in 2016 its now $34000.
@Bunnyshooter 223 You know the banks can close and confiscate all your money go into your safety deposit box empty it out the property becomes Theres that’s the law. That day is coming. Bitcoin is block chain encrypted just like 3speak video platform can’t be deleted. while you’re running off of this information you could be doubling your money every month. No investment in human history is ever outperformed bitcoin what is it now 79,000%? It’s now part of 401 platforms and retirement securities. Started off at $.33 it’s now over $40,000. Say thank you moth man 🥳☝️ making everyone wealthy one at a time.
@Bunnyshooter 223 you have a lot invested in a book that has had 1600 changes compared to the oldest complete orig copy It’s sitting in a British museum. 20% of it is intact amazingly But you have to study other belief systems to decipher what’s real what’s fabricated. There is no devil Man is the only evil . There’s nothing more dangerous then the human soul and the free will. It’s why your here Learning lessons life after life after life Prison planet Earth ( not a prison ) as many believe Your free to go but the prison part of it all is Once you agree to come here your tied to it all. Just like when you move to a town and your kids grow up and live there you want to leave live on new shores But your leaving all you now know. You know what the orig Hebrew Bible defines as a demon ? A human soul .. one that has moved away from Source ... due to great tragedy. You won’t escape demons We are all responsible source creator is not vengeful not the way the Bible tells you He only cares about how much love you give and how much you get. You come in with nothing ( including your past memories ) you go out leaving amnesia behind ... you will be asked well what did you take away from all that ? Where did you grow All those hardships ? They were out of love .. to force Growth.
Very high quality content from Louis Rossmann in both his experience and knowledge as well as opinions and ethics who values his customers and cares for his employees by focusing on their strengths by allotting very fair wages for what they do. You're great dude!
One thing to remember is there is cost of living. Although the salary is very low, if the cost of living is equally low, then it is possible. In the United States, it would be impossible. The Werefrog remember hearing that 25 cents would feed a family of 4 or a week in Haiti. The Werefrog didn't understand how, until The Werefrog learned that there's currency conversion and different cost of living. However, The Werefrog won't defend $7 per month, especially when that worker provides value of a few hundred dollars per day to the company.
@@werefrogofassyria6609 A typical engineering job like this in India is around US$200/mth which still is not enough to support a family of three. $110 is the govt minimum wage for a young worker. $7 is an insult. How they get around the govt min wages is unknown. Probably bribes.
For anyone who says "well the cost of living is lower over there" I would tell them to check the price of an Apple computer "over there". Or Internet service or a car. They will find that the cost of many products is actually higher than in the US. It would seem logical that a person working to produce a product should be able to save up a bit of money to afford eventually to buy one of their products without sacrificing meals or their children's education. Any amount less is ridiculous.
@metro2002 dude no you can get a good second hand car in india for less than what the iPhone 12 pro costs. Not to say they aren't ripping people off. To survive on those wages for an engineer in Bangalore is not possible. You have to understand that the prices vary a lot based on the commodity. Rent will be super high in cities like that. In my city there are families who live in houses that are smaller than an American suburban bathroom and the rent still costs more than their entire wage
@@silentstorm718 Why not? Since we're going all extrapolation ad absurdium, the expertise required to produce a 737 is worth enough so the workers, as a group, should indeed earn enough over their careers to be able to consider doing so.
It's pretty mind blowing to know someone doing the exact same job as someone else in different countries has their pay throttled just because of location.
Misread the title and I was thinking it says 7$ per day which seemed low even considering low living costs of India. Then I looked closer and I'm speechless
The most unbelievable part of this story is that you pay $40 a month for a bloomberg subscription. It was only a matter of time before the people got fed up.
Until I stumbled onto this channel and listened to what you had to say I had absolutely no idea how important and how much stand behind and support what you are talking about. From here on end I will gladly find a computer repair shop and without hesitation, buy a refurbished phone. I love your position on ethical treatment of employees, fair wages and I adore that you are a fighter. Thank so you much Louis. I get why you have such a massive following. Listening to you is fuel for the soul.
iSheep: "OMG Apple cares for racial/class justice!" Apple: Operates literal slave factories in 3rd world countries Apple: Releases another overpriced shiny crap iSheep: "OMG I NEED this product so much I will camp outside the store!"
India isn't a 3rd world country, they are just behind the times www.ibef.org/industry/science-and-technology.aspx economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/information-tech/indias-cash-rich-it-firms-look-to-acquire-deals-for-steady-revenue-flow/articleshow/79428998.cms www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/20-years-on-india-s-cyber-cafes-disappearing-as-pocket-internet-takes-over/story-vszaWMYND6Mm2lqOxkx5SK.html
@@TheZombiesAreComing The point is that India is not a First World country. Not yet, anyways. Not as long as they continue producing First World goods and services while paying Third World wages. We pay our homeless welfare cases more than India was paying these engineers.
It's so frustrating because when all is said and done apple makes a good product. Overpriced sure, but it works. They could actually be a responsible company and still make trillions, but they prioritize more profits
@@Aguyinachair That is naive thinking, Apple is corrupt, as are all the other tech giants. They couldn't care less about going what is "right". Companies of the past actually gave a damn while companies of the present only care about maximizing their wealth and influence.
@@GeorgeMonet Are you talking about Cow and Horse and Goat and Chicken slavery ? In which case I don't think people pulled plows or carts too often unless in extreme situations. And no people laid eggs or milked themselves.
And companies will defend this by saying "the customers demand these devices, we NEED to use cheap labor to keep them profitable". And this might be a hot take but I don't see how they're "barely making ends meet" when they are selling $1000+ phones! I work in a factory myself, and 1 (yes, ONE, a SINGLE) product is worth more than my entire month's salary. And a group of about 20 people making 8000-10000 per 8 hour shift. So our salary is basically not even making a difference in the company expenses, it's so insignificant. Where does there rest of the money go I wonder?
I worked in a factory years ago, that didn't pay the worst...but we would put out around $1,000,000 or product per 12 hour shift...and we only had 8 total employees working each shift, all making around minimum wage plus minimum raises. Companies can 100% afford to give their employees a better wage...but they choose profit every single time. This company was known to be one of the better ones to work for in my city, and I'll agree, it wasn't the worst place I've worked. But it just shows that anyone with half a brain can realize even the well respected company they work for is likely screwing them out of wages they could easily afford to pay. I've worked for small business and they seemed to be able to pay a decent wage...wonder why smaller companies can pull it off but bigger companies can't? Greed. Greed is always the answer.
I also work for a company that makes product for enterprise customers. The customer price of the stuff we produce ranges from 20K to 1M per line item, and the cost of parts is a few thousand. Where does the money go? Part of it is to recoup the development cost of the product, part of it goes to pay customer support, part of it software development, part of it to R&D, part of it goes to "transformation cost" (paying the CM to make it and paying their mark-up for materials), part of it goes to profit. Generally speaking a piece of consumer hardware is marked up 5-10 times the cost of the hardware + transformation cost. A $1000 phone "costs" Apple about $200, they have to recover their expenses (R&D + development + operating costs) from the remaining $800.
@@spuriustadius5034 Therefore Apple is justified in using labor that pays 6 dollars a month? I bet it's safe to assume the top 5 employees of Apple make more than the rest combined so that 800 left over is not going where you think it is lol
@@AaronHendu The Megas ALWAYS Lobby on the front end and apportion a kickback for the tax man, Legislators who write the Laws and to Lawmakers who enforce them.
Many things like shoes or clothes in India actually cost more than in the US. And wages of most people are pathetic. Strangely, govt employees have high salaries. The average worker in a private company is a slave, because he would starve if he left.
I wish people like you would only speak on things they know, my girlfriend is from India their clothes, bags, and many other crafted goods are dirt cheap with pretty decent quality is most cases.
Louis. I live in India, Rs.8000 and Rs.12000 is totally useless to support a family of three. Rs.16000 is hand to mouth level with zero savings. This is especially true when you consider how the cost of living has risen dramatically in 2020. These incidents make me have utter hatred for companies like Apple who give zero f**ks about people, including their own customers.
Yup; I really really enjoyed my 2nd grader style of LECTURE from the “genius bar” employee whom scoffed at the concept of having a removable battery as being too dangerous. He flipped his ponytail when I mentioned that one can change a car battery just fine without any issues but all of a sudden doing the same with an iphone 6 would be the equivalent of the risk tier similar to a nuclear meltdown chrenoble style. This will be my last Apple product because I simply don’t want to support the sociopaths in charge
@@07wrxtr1 wellll, according to Scotty Kilmer, even changing a car battery is not for the non mechanics, since you need to keep the computer powered... but no apple for me neither
Dominic, your situation is one of many reasons why I refuse to buy Apple. I own no Apple products and refuse to buy them, even if they sold them at half price.
NEVERMIND I WAS SO WRONG
Dominic C Don’t hate those companies. Hate your government that didn’t help and protect their people.
Funny how this didn't make the news anywhere
i know right
Orange Man Bad training and addiction fake news marketing at its finest...
American hate is focused on the obedience narrative to lame stream media and corporate guidance for globalism.
There is no space left to hate what’s actually flagrant living evil rather than a soap opera villain.
@@karamlevi
Not even in Europe this was news
India just formed the largest general strike in known history.
U.S. News:
yet our country did better than it has in a very long time . unemployment broke records it was so low . not to mention my 401k
was fat too.. and he did all that while
defending himself.
and what have you
done ????
if you have a better
way .... then get on with it, and get it going
I live in Bangalore. This factory is near the outskirts of the city. Bangalore is one of the more expensive places to stay in India. The government mandated minimum pay for any contracted job is roughly 300 rupees a day or 7500 per month. This in itself is extremely low and hard to survive on. To give you an example, income tax starts at 50000 rupees a month. Anything below is considered low income by today's standards. If this company was actually paying 500 rupees a month to its employees, it is not just cruel but downright illegal. Their management should be in jail for labor law violations.
True, it's nearly impossible to survive in Bangalore city limits with 7500/mo. But income tax starts from around 20000/mo. 50000/mo is still a decent salary in India which most folks don't make. Nothing will happen to Wistron though, there will be some 'meetings' and mutual ass kissing between them and the govt and this will be soon forgotten. Maybe they'll raise the salaries by 5% and carry on. Apple, their new products and treatment of workers truly sickens me to the core. All the more reason not to buy their overpriced junk.
Meanwhile the government pretends not to notice, see or care with their pockets full. An unfortunate reality in many countries not just India.
@@atropabelladonna3120 Govt doesn't have closed eyes. It is listening to labourers too. It's just that the corporate machinery is so strong it's hard to please both sides.
Xi JingPing pet 🐶 (communists) did it clearly.
7500 rupees equals $101.89 US
"Protecting the employees' right to work" is an old euphemism for strike breaking.
There are two sides to every strike. Strike breaking in the US for example (I work in areosoace) is frequently the right thing to do, the machine is Union is so political it's chased all our jobs away.
@@M167A1 of course there are at least two sides to every strike. Being a blackfoot scab never helps the workers though.
@@M167A1 Unions are still an unambiguously good social and political force. In the US many have either been co-opted by the power of captial or simply aren't actually unions.
@@M167A1 I accept there is some truth in this, but it's like a blind auction. No one really knows what their job is worth till management is pushed. Secondly if bigger profits can be made by exporting jobs overseas that is going to happen anyway, whatever the union does. Under globalisation there has ben a mass exportation of manufacturing jobs to east Asia and elsewhere. Costs of living are different in different regions, so a US worker is not going to be able to live on what a Chinese worker earns. Liberalising the global economy has the potential to level everyone down.
@Bob Watters as I said many unions in the US are captured by capital and they must be changed so I’m not sure we disagree. However, from the the early 1900’s to the 70’s they served an important role in challenging power that no other institutions can replace and we need to bring that back.
People in first world countries: "If we demand higher wages, they'll ship our job overseas!"
People in third world countries: "If we demand higher wages, they'll ship our job overseas!"
People in India: "BURN THE FACTORY DOWN!"
Go India.
😁 As an Indian, I can confirm.
@mug wump that's cause people keep paying them $7/month
@mug wump 🥺🥺
THE ENTIRE WORLD IS CHANGEING
All jokes aside, this is the correct response to companies trying this shit.
"journalism"? "Bloomberg"? Well there's your mistake, right there. You've got words that don't go together in close juxtaposition.
Oxymoron comes to mind.
@@fisiorking Exactly! The association of Bloomberg and journalism constitutes “an oxymoron.” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Imagine paying a subscription for a news outlet that withholds information.
When I heard how much it costs a month, and did such a poor job at journalism, I was pretty shocked, I knew they were bad, but I didn't realise they were this insanely bad.
You should read Edward Herman Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent to understand how the corporate media works. It's in their interest to be partial snd not give the full account.
@@excitedaboutlearning1639 Oh I'm well aware that they are biased and want to push a certain view, but after paying that much, surely they'd provide somewhat more information.
Imagine paying a news company for anything...
Why give Bloomberg a dime?!?
As an accountant, this is why I encourage others to share pay rates among coworkers. The only person who doesn't want it is the one signing the checks. Power to the people.
“Half the information” is basically the tag line for the US media.
Meticulously chosen to protect their “investors” and drive a narrative. There’s hardly a genre of news story that I take at face value anymore, you’re right
"All the information that fits our agenda" NYT
Correct, that's their modus operandi.
more like 180 degrees from truth , evil corrupt swamp ,people are waking up ,cnn is reportedly 150 billion in debt .
Not even half. The bare minimum they can get away with while still "Manufacturing Consent".
“Unskilled Labor” has been taken advantage by Companies for decades. It’s ridiculous and happens everywhere.
And how about that ''TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT''....TEMP WORKER SCANDAL THING ????!
Yea just because you don't have a college degree in your field means that all your labor is pussy shit and deserves no mercy
@@rakebluewallgaming6185 We will see how you like it when your viscera
is applied to YOU !
@@douglasrowland3722 He's being sarcastic, the whole point is that saying something like that is stupid.
@@paulvideo05 It's gonna result in a GIGA-BITE !!!!!! (OUCH !)
Being an Indian I can confirm 7 dollars a month is a joke even by our standards. I am a masters student and I get 200 dollars per month as stipend.
Go get em boy. Congrats on your success! Wish you the best!!
Exactly, 7/month is so extreme, why does the government of India permitted that kind of salary. 200 dollars is very low but it's the basic salary for entry level labor jobs but 7??!! really apple 7?! that's just straight up slavery.
Hope you are well. I hate to hear about this slave labor type of stuff. But the Bible talks about this stuff. The empires will only get worse as time goes on.
@@Titantitan001 The Bible doesn't have a problem with people owning slaves.
@Akkszz He is talking about stipend, not his pay after finishing masters.
GDP of india : 2.5 Trillion USD
Apple's Value ~ 2 Trillion USD
India's debt to GDP : 0.8
Apple is so big , it can support my country financially for a whole year with everything going on as normal and yet they are paying 160 $ a month to an engineer.
For context , i am renting a home with 2 rooms in a fairly low income town and it costs me around 150$ a month (Rent+Electricity). I hope things will get better.
120$ a month to an enginner? are you serious? Isn't that a crime in India too?
That's crazy. Engineers are among the top-paid jobs in my country. I bought like three Apple products (my artist frienss said iPad Pro is good to draw on the go) but never really like them, now I have more reasons to stop buying from them...
thanks for sharing the numbers
@@hannie.haneul as an digital artist, somewhat of, i understand why they say so but i would recommend actual art device or better, a drawing tablets. I suggest wacom, but there's also other alternative, which i forgot name but maybe be cheaper and better than wacom tablets. Still drawing tablets is better and more professional than other regular tablets.
@@kharkovluzhin8333 hi, i'm a webcomic artist myself so yes I can say from experience iPad isn't worth it 😅 It's good for drawing on the go, but for an actual drawing setup, I agree with you, invest on actual graphic tablet instead. Wacom is kinda overpriced imho, I use Huion Pro 15, much cheaper with better customer service too.
I'm still looking fo a fully-independent wireless LCD graphic tablet with built-in OS. I bought Wacom Companion for like $4,000 some years ago and it crashed from overheating in the span of only 3 months, and the service center asked $1600 for repair. Biggest waste of money. So I just left it and bought a $550 Huion Pro tablet instead, never regret it since. 😂👌
It's doesn't matter if the cost of living is lower there, these products are sold here for thousands of dollars.
It's exploitation at highest degree.
Steve Jobs fought against management regarding fair pricing where everyone wins, he lost most of the time as the board of directors wanted to stay super wealthy at the expense of the consumer and they are the same today as they have always been.
Who buys the products?
@@dtphenom Self righteous tools who think they are moral and compassionate.
At both ends
@@77.88. he should've thought about that before selling the majority of the stock then. Either Jobs was a hypocrite, or a naive fool, both are similarly bad.
I have never purchased an Apple product in my life, and I will DEFINITELY be continuing that trend.
Same here.
Hey. Why don't you conform?
Didn't you watch the Apple ad? OBEY.
Tough stuff
same
Same here.
"I'm a little annoyed at Bloomburg for the journalism they did here, because I like to hear both side of the story."
Getting unbiased media in 2020 is like trying to find a decent product on Wish. Sure it _may_ exist somewhere, but holy crap is it an extremely rare sight to find.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Weird everything ive got from wish thus far has been a decent product but then again i usually go for the free just pay shipping items
I get amused when I hear anybody surprised about any so called new media outlet not giving both sides.
And he PAYS for it, that's the truly humorous part. 40 bucks a month to basically have trash delivered to your doorstep. Yikes.
Journalism is dead. it's just paid advertising.
the problem with that 500Rs salary is that even if you worked for 500Rs a day, youll be barely able to buy cheap food, besides the costs of living and paying rent, bills, etc
[source: i live in india]
I’m certain that American companies are able to set up shop and get away with giving slave wages because most people don’t have the time or interest to take a look at the intricacies of finance abroad.
In Kolkata 500 rs is what most labourers get .
@@ayushkumar-bg1xf Yep. It's the same here in the south. I'm from Kerala and we pay laborers Rs. 500 per job. They get around Rs. 1k to 2k per day. Rs. 500 per month is a crime. Remember that we're talking about Engineers here.
Are there laws to prevent assholes paying it's workers 7 dollars? Is it common in India?
@@Wakka9000 there are laws, but the government is too curroupted for anybody to do anything about it.
I work myself in electronics. The device we sell cost similar as much as an iPhone 12 max pro and is 100% made in Germany.
Our device costs 260 € in production. That includes everything even the high wages from the union contract, high energy costs, maintainance, marketing, delivery. A simple working woman get 2000 €/ month after tax, health insurances, unemployment insurance, retirement insurance, nursing insurance fees. The employer pays around 3700€ for that working force. A maintainance person earn twice as much. And so it goes on.
You know what? We sell it for 1400€ our profit is very high. Apple can produce in the USA easily without any doubt and make a good profit. The problem is that they are greedy as hell.
threre is greed and then there is uber greed apple is uber greed
Nice name for a german.
What kind of device does your company sell?
Well you are rich in our terms. In India due to covid they reduced salary to 8000rs.
Is this a joke or legitimate with a meme name? Lol.
Germany is such a great nation of wonderfull kind hearted non-nazis these days its really convincing they are totally the good guys
Classic when Ricky Gervais called Tim Cook out over this at the Golden Globes.
He should have taken that as a warning to improve work conditions. You reap what you sow. Idiot should have seen this coming.
@spicy spice no not yet but if I was him I’d be disappearing myself just as fast as I could. He’s got a target on his back now. And he’s totally responsible for ALL of his behaviour and treatment of others.
Ricky DESTROYED the 2020 GGAs and it was GLORIOUS
I cant believe Ricky didnt accidentally shoot himself in the back of the head with a gun hes was cleaning that doesnt own.Calling out apple,big tech,pedifiles.
❤️ Gervais
Apple will liquidate these particular human resources with those more co-operative towards the company's long-term corporate strategy.
When you say liquidate you mean turn them into soylent green?
Is there any phrase more inhumane than "human rescources"?
*2077 theme plays*
we need more double speak to add to this.
@@spartaxjp5073 How about this?
Apple intends to "think different" by liquidating the more volatile human resource asset's and replace them with those more co-operative towards the company's long-term corporate strategy and vision.
I am from India, Louis has explained the situation in great detail and accuracy. Really happy that you have talked about this, it was shocking that most if not all big news agencies in the West had not talked about it.
Most of the western media are owned by millionaires and billionaires who profit from this so of course they won't cover it.
Of course not, because this incident showcases the power of a "worker" with nothing to lose and America has millions of people in similar situations.
May God strike the "too big to fail" companies down... that mom and pop may survive.
They are being smited one by one brother, karma hurts if debt is not paid
@@martinsozola8526 lol... World leaders can fix Big Tech owners little red wagons by doing just like Uganda...
Just Block all their platforms from the country at once..
Money flow... Denied..lol
And to add insult to injury..
create a department to monitor big tech..
"DMPD".
Digital media policing department..🤣
And the next time they try to log in
They will get a users agreement pop up
that they have to agree to before getting access to their platform like they did to their conservative users...lol...
1. You can no longer block nor cancel accounts without permission from the "DMPD".
This Violation can end in permanent country ban of all platforms owned.
2.Any Unjustified or unexplained downtime of monetized accounts without permission from the "DMPD"
This violation that can end in permanent country ban of all platforms owned.
3.You can no longer shadow ban accounts Period. All accounts must be given equal access.
This Violation can end in permanent country ban of all platforms owned.
4. Any Targeted discrimination towards accounts hindering traffic flow or visibility in search ranking.
This Violation can end in permanent country ban of all platforms owned.
All of the big tech owners would simultaneously shit themselves..
Big Tech:😲💩Nooo..
The World: FREEDOM ♫🕺♫ FREEDOM
AMEN!
@@mssburr WOW Uganda did this way to go Uganda... msn would never report on this.
Amen
China: "Our slaves don't fight back"
That was worth the thumbs up!
No, but we once saw a news video of a young Chinese college student lay down in front of a tank in protest. Bravest act I ever seen.
They don't fight back because they know they'll be shot.
They were jumping out of the windows to kill themselves, but we installed metal bars now. All sorted.
@@lq7777 or worse, put in concentration camps. Oh, I'm sorry, "re-education camps"
@@randalldraco3822 lol
“Slave labor is bad”
You gonna get kicked off youtube for coming after China like that.
Here someone wants to be banned for wrongthink
2 points have been deducted from your social credit score for this post.
I'm hoping they either ban me for life or "come take it"
Think that a little kid selling lemonade that are just lemon powder and water with a paper cup is making as much as a Apple subcontractor employee makes a month in a afternoon
As soon as there is a suitable platform that offers freedom of speech I am leaving TH-cam.
I'd like to see an Undercover Boss at one of these factories
Undercover Ross
th-cam.com/video/Lm9h5E59iig/w-d-xo.html
What for, Boss sits in his office and laughts his ass off.
@@omgtwlol I'd think it'd be funny to watch the privileged suffer.
@@renaigh this is not an answer. We do not need another October revolution. It took russia almost 100 years to go back to the grain production numbers of pre revolution times. What we need is justice, not revange. Courts should look into it, with people picketing outside, they might just convict those boses.
Apple builds factory in U.S. job listing: "must have BA in computer science entry level position with 10 years experience, $15.00/hr."
More like 200 years experience with a further 10 years in extensive quantum mechanics.
Exactly
@myvlogtubes cool story bro.
@@MyVlogTubes are you also lumping those poor undervalued university admins...? Think we're seeing something here...
Apple to the little man- "You have no Right to repair!"
Apple to their slaves- "We have the right to despair!"
Nice
This is Wistron.
Comment of the day 👍
@@matj3296 but that's Wistron not Apple
@@firmman4505 yes I am aware of that
I m from Bangalore where this incident happened. The riot happened because Wistron did not pay there employees salary from last 4-5 months.
That's even worse
Should have burned the place down after the first month
@John Talak wage theft accounts for larger economic damages than other types of theft in the US
@@truedarklander Blue collar get screwed the worst and they're the ones that need it the most. White collar jobs don't typically deal with wage theft issues because the company knows they can and will sue because they have the money to do it. So they don't try to screw them on wages, and instead screw them in less direct, more insidious ways.
@John Talak Arguably if you're still showing up at work after years without a salary, assuming you were entitled to a salary, then aren't you just hurting yourself? When do you mitigate your damages?
Slavery never went away. The slave holders simply moved slavery over to different areas. Whether that's outsourced to other countries, or to the prison system, or simply to slowly stripping pay and benefits from domestic workers.
Amen. Corporate slavery, the new feudalism known as globalism.
Yeah, I've noticed Americans are seemingly oblivious to the fact that slavery is still legal in the US as long as it's considered to be compulsory uncompensated labor.
@@billtomson5791
*capitalism
@Aluzky all those people who went to jail for 10+ years for having weed on them? not even selling weed you could get decades if you were caught 3 times back in the day, this country's legal system is way too fucked to have a right to do that, maybe if I was more competent that most of the people in jail weren't there for non-violent drug charges, which again should be people who need severe help, in my state there are entire towns addicted to opioids and heroin, it has become an epidemic and I have had friends who have died and gone to jail who were just regular kids who needed severe help that was unavailable in my entire state to them, and if you have not delt with this tragedy in your life you are lucky and must come from a very nice area because in the real world these problems are everywhere and we tret these people like animals instead of humans who are literally desperate.
@@ghaloeu2983 only violent criminals dude
"God forbid any of these millionaries take a 2% hit on their salaries to not employ slave labor" EXACTLY.
@myname ismyname "voodoo economics" George H. W. Bush.
BuT tHey dEsErVe tHaT fOr AlL tHe vAlUe tHey pRoViDe tO sOcIeTy!!!
If tHey dOnT liEk wOrKinG There They caN jUsT lEaVe!!!
thats just not how it works. additional costs are merely passed on, not absorbed.
@@UniqueBreakfastTaco yeah, maybe they should, you know, pass these costs too
@@hugofontes5708 the amount of people that can afford a $5k iphone made in the US wouldn't offset the loss in sale of $1k iphones. I remember the backlash from the thousand dollar monitor stand....imagine the whining if people had to pay market price for non-slave labor goods.
Everyone's against slave labor until they have to pay full prices.
This is why our politicians love sending jobs overseas-it really pleases their corporate masters.
Not only that just cheaper to employ people in those countries a lot less regulations just cheapest to literally hire not only pay ya know what cost 10k to hire a person would cost like
100$ so moving a company with say 200,000 employees can save me like 2 million dollars in just the hiring process alone not even including the wage difference it’s actually quite interesting
And then the business sponsors these overseas workers to come to North America, dangles citizenship in front of them and puts them to work for less than minimum wage while pushing out the local workforce.
Leftists who demand 17$/h minimum wage(supported by huge corporations) wont tweet about that on their apple laptops.....
@@stefanbatory8565 we do? Being against the exploitation of labor is the foundation of leftist thought?
Also we don't use apple products, we're not libs.
@@DavidLopez-en6el I know plenty of would-be Che Guevaras who own iPhones and iPods, dunno about Macs tbh but i bet they also have those lol and the fact of the matter is no one among American leftist cycles truly gives a rats tail about people outside America, for example, while leftists scream at me about BLM and Covid, i'm drowned out trying to talk about the desperate famine situation in africa caused by worldwide lockdowns and you think any of them give a damn?
It's all about showing that you're a good person, you don't actually need to be one, just pretend that you are for other people and that's why time and again they get accused by us of hypocrisy.
I recall articles that "If we made iPhones in the USA they would be $1000". Hmmm.
yeah as if they aren't already am I right
They are more than 1k now
Apple is disgusting....
They most likely mean the cost to manufacture would be $1,000 which would put the retail price around $5,000-10,000
I’m ripping off another quote about Nestle but
If we can’t have phones without slave labor, maybe we shouldn’t have phones.
Also if they’re 10,000 dollars, they’re not going to sell to a lot of people.
This is what happens when the workers realize that they have nothing to loose but their chains.
I was looking at the cost of living in india. The monthly utilities for a 1000 square foot residence cost an average of 3000₹. That's about $40 american. If my utilities totalled $40 per month and I only got $7 per month to pay it, I'd be upset too.
exactly
The UN definition of absolute poverty is less than $1.25 per day. Obviously, $6.79 per month is well below this
@@jamesstevens2145 Every country has its own average cost of living. What the UN declares for absolute poverty has no bearing on the average cost of living in India. My example was just the utilities cost for the average home in india. No food, no rent, no mortgage, no transportation costs, etc. Their wage wasn't even covering one fifth of the utilities. I would call that as being forced into poverty.
@@daviestj for sure, but I think its really helpful to see how far BELOW the UN's level of "absolute poverty" these "wages" are. The UN takes into account the world minimum reasonable standard of living, but for sure the cost of living in some places will be considerably higher than others
@@daviestj basically India needs to read Upton Sinclair's the Jungle. Not that I think unions are a good thing in the US at present, there's a huge difference between the power of American unions to dominate state budgets in pension costs and ensuring you don't get paid slave wages.
No your not out of touch your 100% correct apple is eviel
Your? Eviel?
Tyhe CEO is gay so it's OK. LOL
@@garyfrancis6193 Yep, play tone deaf if you want to... He spelled what he spelled!
@@susiebear3316 What?
Actually Apple has to manufacture on China due to trade agreements and big government big tech
I can't believe how quickly we've regressed to the point where repair is a _right_ we have to fight for
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people didn't fight for it when it was called 'pirating' to media shift. the same laws that prevent that prevent repair. if the 'right to repair' doesn't succeed then we will have to fight for the right to own stuff, and then the right for not having things we have bought taken from us unexpectedly. all of that has happened already to some degree under that law (the DMCA), but it hasn't really become common enough to be a reactionary movement.
People didn't do enough to stop it when it happened with things like Tractors using software that prevents 3rd party mechanics from working on them.
You will control nothing, and like it
@@jamoecw We already don't own things. Ownership is merely an illusion. You don't get to _own_ and Windows 10 PC. Microsoft does. You merely pay to have access to it, so long as it's on Microsoft's terms and conditions which are subject to change at their whim.
Same with your phone. You pay a fee to get to use it every now and again, but it's not yours. It's the phone company's.
We are well on our way to the Great Reset. We have to start pushing back.
@@thecryogenicdrummer1110 you are absolutely correct. the issue is that there are only a few things that are like that, if things don't get fixed that will be the norm rather than the growing list of exceptions.
e.g. from historic America - Until relatively recent times: Coal miners, before labor unions. Buy food and clothing at the company store, rent a shack from the company, etc. By the time you paid the company for everything, you had virtually nothing left to spend on anything else. otoh, you had a job and could feed and clothe your family. But, financially speaking you were stuck. You couldn't advance economically, and you couldn't get out of poverty.
Plus coal miners ended up dying from black lung.
That what is going on in all the word!!!!
That's why it's called virtue signaling: no virtue, all signaling.
Right. It always seems like the ones making the biggest stink about "equality" are always the ones thanking China for being able to film next to concentration camps, using slave labor to build cheap goods that are sold at exorbitant prices, etc. Side note, apparently there was a study regarding virtue signaling - and no surprise but the people who do it are usually narcissists or psychopaths.
the less virtue you have, the more you spread it
Employees: We would like a living wage.
Apple: Think Differently
That phrase is too grammatically correct for Apple.
Honestly that tagline starts to sound downright sinister as soon as you start looking into Apple's bullshit.
You mean capitalism
@@mexreax4493 No, this in to capitalism problem, this is outsourcing problem. What China said? "This is what happens when you do not use China workforce" or whatever bullshit? China is communist country and therefore humans are worthless. And if they complain, they will get punished.
@@simonspacek3670 its capitalism dude.
When you cut the corners so hard you end up with a circle
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My experience is that once a company realizes they can get away with cutting a corner, they'll spend whatever it takes to engineer ways of cutting every corner they can. They'll spend millions to save pennies.
That is the exact argument that you rarely see being made in mainstream media (and no I'm not a "fake" newser). The salaries that are being paid in these countries are not commensurate to the work being done!
Excellent analysis Louis!
be careeful, the technocracy doesn't like it when you talk about their slaves.
The same reason the masters on the plantation didn’t like it.
F@$! em I don't live my life to please people I don't know.
@@jameshendricks7564 that's anti-semitic
@@joriankell1983 ageist
@@Bearbones agoraphobe!
You are incredibly well spoken. You bring awareness to things that most have no idea exist let alone happen. Keep them coming. Your perspective points out things most dont notice.
Thank you for calling out Bloomberg‘s incredibly biased “journalism.“ freedom and liberty for all!
Repair jobs reduces slave labor, helps the environment, increases tax revenue, gives the consumers better and more options with their products.
but it doesn’t make more money and money is #1 priority
Bloomberg: We don't know, they just started destroying the factory out of nowhere. They must be one of those anarchy groups or something.
Antifa is a myth....most of been a racist white trump supporter.
Little Mike's propaganda machine.
@@anthonyvaught1030 You a lie in a grunt..
"Trump supporters couldnt stand indian ppl taking american jobs and flew to india to burn down a factory putting thousands of minorities out of a good paying job" - literally probably cnn in a week
@@nunyabizness199 🤣 😂 🤣💀
"Rampant exploitation" are the right words.
More likely this is just poor people trying to start factories. Apple may pick the lowest bidder to build their products but they don't set wages, that's done by the factory. In cases like this most likely they didn't do their homework or were so desperate to land a contract with Apple they underbid, so now they can't afford to pay workers. Possibly there's corruption or mismanagement involved also. This kind of stuff happened in the US all the time too back in the day.
Anyone remember when Foxcon installed suicide nets around their building?
Nuf Said
we butter,we pay u fer stain home
They really did? Lol thats horrible
Foxconn and EUPA were awful. Built like prisons, tall walls and gates and guard towers, workers living in small shared barracks-style dorms, off-time activities all strictly scheduled with mandatory attendance, meals in company mess hall (or meals withheld if floor supervisors unhappy), all shopping exclusively from company stores, no freedom to leave the site, constant authority presence, monitored communications, 15-hour workdays, dehumanizing and depressing treatment, shit contracts nobody ever walked away from, etc.
But they still paid more than these Winstron wages.
saw them with my own eyes. horrible feeling when i went there...
What people don't realize it's that whenever you purchase from a company that uses these factories you are paying these people to be treated this way. Our gotta have it now disposable consumer trends have gotten the best of us.
This corporate tactic is used waaay to much:
Virtue signaling as PR stunt while treating your actual employees like garbage
They would hire detectives to look at the recycling companies and check their security camaras. But theydont know anything about slave labor.
they tried their best
That’s ok the media can’t find anything wrong with Hunter Biden too.
This is what pisses me off most about jobs leaving the US. Not only do we lose jobs but the new worker get screwed too.
These jobs long sailed from the US, these actually left China for India
Hell, even China is too good to their workers now for these fucking companies.
That's life under Capitalism.
A system of world wide enslavement before the mass culling
@Lyrical Gammster damn crazy maybe we should elect someone who will impose regulations on corporations forcing them not to offshore
Oh wait we did that and yall fucking screamed and rioted
“Silicon Valley sociopaths “ - that’s a burn for sure
....a good burn!
They're secretly blushing with pride
@@Max0r847 unfortunately you are right.
I call them censorious totalitarian cunts.
"Slave labor is bad"
Ironic, seeing how you're working your poor cat to exhaustion
lol yeah that's how it works slave labor is bad now how cheap can I get away with paying them before they burn the factory down muhahahahahahahahahahahaha
@a bag of rocks no he does not he he pays them with a little cash and if the cat wants that kibble he has to wait for like 6 months for one months worth of high grade kibble lol
When someone spends 1000$ on an iPhone a pop up should appear "this phone cost as much as 12 years of work for the person who built it"
Not only am I on board for this, but I want it for pretty much every product. "This product costs (X) hours of labor for the lowest paid person involved in it's production and distribution at their current rate of pay" or worse for those who have slaves with 0 monetary compensation "A person involved in the production and distribution of this item will never be able to afford it at their current rate of pay"... Sure some people will probably still buy, but it's exactly the kind of bad PR we need for these corporations
I would love this. Seriously, a lifetime of reminding those near to me that basically everything is made by slaves. Even anything made in america is probably prison labor
Nice idea but it goes, to differing extents, for almost every product sold in the 1st World
If you are talking about American dollars, it is incorrect to put the dollar sign behind the amount. It is written correctly this way $--- > amount.
@@limitedtime5471 100%
It's ironic how Apple has such unnecessarily strict requirements and rules for "Apple certified" repair shops but will turn a blind eye to the literal factories making their products
@CK Lim I feel like you need to read the comment again.
@CK Lim Reading Comprehension 0
You can make more than that an hour sweeping change in a McDonald's parking lot... 😑
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” -Upton Sinclair
What does that have to do with the video?
@@vladimir0700 I think it has to do with companies defending labor abuses or even just refusing to acknowledge labor abuses...because their profits depend on it. But I could be wrong
They just abuse cheap labour, think what they gain has nothing to do with them.
@@alexanderdvanbalderen9803 maybe so, but U.S. history is pretty stacked with labor strikes throughout multiple industries, strikes and revolts that cost workers their lives. The weekend, the 40 hr work week, the concept of overtime all paid for by U.S. workers revolting
@@alexanderdvanbalderen9803 If you think those strides have been rolled back and maybe it's time for common people to stand up for ourselves again, I'd be inclined to agree with you very much so
Fun fact: 2 Trillion dollars can afford you flights to China (essentially around the world) everyday for the next 3.5 million years.... and I rounded down in the calculations 😳.
Americans and their weird units. ''It weighs about 50 stone and costs 3 flights to china''
@@NuclearTopSpot "costs about 0.00826 years of flying to china every day"
FTFY
Daaaaaaaamn.
If you want to have some math fun, figure out how many miles 1T dollars will extend when bills are laid end to end.
@@kenpumphrey8384 we talking dollar bills, dollar coins, or wompum?
A dollar a day is considered extreme poverty even in a low cost country. 7 dollars a month, that's less than 25 *cents* a day!!!
Same work, same value. It’s shouldn’t be that different just because it’s a different country. At the same time, these countries are also need to work on their problems and the People need to stand up. We weren’t given anything either, which, to my surprise, is a common believe from people out of these countries.
@@codecampbase1525 This is not how international economy works.
On contrary they should be glad that it is less than in the countries that place the orders. Because without it - they would not have any work and nothing would be paid.
On other note - it may be that the payment is not adequate to what was locally committed to. This would be a breach of contract.
@@codecampbase1525 That's because of Neo-Liberal trade organisations that prevent any even mildly Socialist or Embedded Liberal legislation to be in effect and prevent labour unions from forming. Organisations like the W.T.O. often receive high bonuses from big multinational companies that oppress people in poor countries.
@metro2002 Oh. Well, you can survive on that at least. But still grossly underpaid.
@@tessjuel Underpaid from which perspective exactly? From the perspective of a NewYorker who will spend more than that in one bathroom break or for a man in Kalkutta who could feed a family of 10 for a week with that money?
Again you people clearly don’t understand how countries manage their economies.
The world needs more Louis Rossman's.
Tracer, is that you? (But certainly agreed.)
Louis is a hypocrite, he profits handsomely off of Apple, in addition to these false indignation videos. The world does not need more hypocrites that profit off of slave labor like Louis does.
I approve this message 🍺😁
More Louie Rossman’s what?
@@hillbillysmith7220 Louis profits by fixing Apple's fucking garbage, cleaning up after their messes, and repairing Apple products so that Apple's customers don't have to buy new shitty products from Apple. Apple does everything they can to stop him from doing that. What part don't you understand?
the idea of $7/month is so foreign to me that i read it as $7/hour at first and was wondering why you called them slaves
$7/hour is still not a living wage for a full time job and therefore counts as slave labor.
EDIT: i don't remember exactly, as this was a year ago, but i believe the video says American Dollars. So this is based entirely on that. I'm aware money is different in different countries, but i don't think it mentioned it being in another country? i may be incorrect tho.
@@OriginalCreatorSama that depends on where you are since money has different purchasing power in different places so it can be slave labor depending on the place
@@OriginalCreatorSama $7/Hour in india is pretty damn good for them.
@@killertigergaming6762 yes and no. Take for example Western and Eastern Europe. The only localised costs is property value and rent - Eastern Europeans earn on average 5 to 10 times less (except IT because remote work for foreign companies) than their immediate neighbors (!!!) for the same job. Meanwhile cost of food is pretty much identical, so are luxury goods. The cost of living being cheaper is relative. Is rent cheaper in Poland than it is in Germany? You can buy a pack of salami for 2 EUR or 8 PLN which is literally actual currency exchange rate. What is cheaper, 2 of your 1000 or 8 of your 1000? Yes if you convert currency it does appear cheaper. In practicality you realise it's the same % of your wage... number is not important, it's the buying power behind it. Just because you can live in Vietnam in pretty high standard for 300gbp a month it doesn't make Vietnam cheap for Vietnamese people that have to make do with their pesos...
@@OriginalCreatorSama it depends on where you live in greece a 7euro/hour is a dream job for most, we usually get paid from 3-4 euros per hour
Disappointed with lots of news organisations that report certain fact but leave out others. Also included is their opinionated reporting with the way sentences are phrased and structured.
I'm so sick of opinion pieces being disguised as new reporting!
yeah journalism has become political an biased because journalists found out they can make more money lying than presenting the facts
The "journalists" are just doing the bidding of their corporate overlords. There is no such thing as a free press anymore, they are bought and paid for.
Oh so like pretty much every main stream outlet for the past god knows how many years...
@@mickmegson6241 Yes, all owned by the same 6 zionist corporations.
And this is why I refuse to even have a single apple product in my house.
I'm sure you have a ton of slave made products from China in your house most of the clothes and shoes and pretty much everything else come from China
@@mesanders1113 I'm sure you have no idea what I own. Don't assume things about people, makes you look incredibly immature.
Hell yeah to that. Work there myself yet I dont want to touch any of their constantly failing crap.
Degoogled pixel as a phone and gaming linux laptop for games. Thats all I need
Must admit that I like apple strudel, apple pies, blackberry and apple jam, and cider. Concur with you about electronics, though.
@@youhavetoguessit China produces so many of our products it’s a fair bet to assume you own something that was made using slave labor. The fact that your on the internet makes that even more likely.
The whole definition of ironic hypocrisy is "slavery is bad, but I can't afford the prices that a non-slave driven factory asks for"
tell that to Wistron management
@@firmman4505 that's my point, people vote with their feet, they will always choose the cheapest clothing
"They don't care" No, they definitely care, they care to make sure it continues
In the past Journalism was about forming your own opinion, today they tell you what to think.
Yeah, where's my freedom to decide if I think slavery is ok or not, how dare this journalist call it bad? Oh, wait, he's doing an opinion piece expressing his own opinion rather than doing journalism, how dare he use his 1st ammendment right to voice his opinion, I'm big mad now 😂
The bad part is, Apple products are already priced high enough to bolster the illusion that they were responsibly produced.
$7 a month! That's way too low, even for a developing country.
That's just not fair and is simple modern day slavery.
It is more than the prison slave labor market in America. They earn 12 cents a day. That's $3.60 a month 😱 but they do get room and board 🤣
@@ronniechew6566
3 hots and a cot as they say
The title is misleading, "Some workers claim to have gotten monthly salaries of as little as Rs 500 ($6.80). Most make a "basic" wage for the area but claim they haven't been paid. Wistron is the culprit and apple is investigating the company to see if it hasn't violated Apple's supplier guidelines
This guy is just so good in making videos. That slight bit of sarcasm, always on point, concise.
Subscribed right away
Reminds me of jordan nike's back in the late 80's .... Asian workers got paid two to three pennies per tennis shoes that were build by hand. Then sold in america for $70, $80, 100's a pair.
Well, this is capitalism. They could say "give us 2 dollars a shoe"...
@@Sponsi_PL no that's the national law of many asian countries who don't give anything about their citizens
Marcus A. Rivera Your spot on. This was a omen I saw as a child living in the Bronx when people would spend money on Jordan’s who didn’t have any disposable income. I never felt oppressed when these facts were brought to my attention. This information was not foreign even then.
@@Tempist-Strike. kind of fucked how nobody cares that the loudest "oppressed to poverty" group on earth has enough money to pay a 5000% mark up on some frivilous fashion item made by an actual impoverished and oppressed person.
@@BlastinRope Now son that is too much common sense for 2020
"We graciously provide you filthy peasants with $7 a month - and this is how you repay us for our generosity?!"
- Apple
Lmao
$7 is practically a death sentence.
$7 is still death.
7 dollars a month because we are not racist as we pay everyone doing your position the same 7 dollars a month regardless that's apples logic for anti racism
@@raven4k998 except they don't because different people were getting different salaries
At first i was like wtf they complaining about, i bet $7 an hour is plenty.
Then i saw, ITS PER MONTH wth
Yes I thought that 7$ was per hour too, how can anyone live anywhere with 7$/month?
It's disgusting especially for their profit margins for the same thing every year
That's the future Biden will prop up..... and then call us bigots
@@vasili1207 🤡
@@vasili1207 yep slave labor is definitely wrong it's why I don't want our stuff made in China well in China there's something types of jobs where you don't even get paid so it could be worse I guess lol
Its just like the steel worker factory revolt again, the clock of history repeats yet again
Apple: we care about the environment
Also Apple: Slavery in modern world is fine
Samsung, Dell, Microsoft, Intel, nVidia and other major Tech manufacturers make ALL their products from 100 percent sustainable, renewable, carbon-neutral materials in a manner that spreads love, happiness, rainbows, sunshine and worker-empowerment......All of them..... except APPLE !...... crAPPLE products are made from the distilled tears of hungry 5 year old Asian and East Asian children...... everybody knows that.....especially ALL the iSheeple.....it's the main reason they buy!!! ..............Bwaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha..... phew...BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH....................
@@goobfilmcast4239 Please get some help..
@@signumxmagnum probably getting paid $9 a month to spam this under every comment.
Hey, but these slaves at least got a all nice sterilized corporate environment to mingle. and office plant pots. Don't forget the plants! Maybe they can even chew on the leaves to sustain themselves while working and saving money for food! And they can work overnight, so they won't need to pay for a roof over their heads.
Don't forget also Apple: We care about BLM, because oppression is wrong
Apple's virtue signaling is just a part of their marketing strategy, nothing else.
Yeah in the digital age at one of the biggest corporations in history, worth 2 trillion dollars, BTW in the digital information and technology market. That's kinda scary.
All virtue signalling is marketing.
The cat in the back is just thankful that his human has a soul.
Cat lives matter 🐈.
It’s the perfect irony. The cat is exploiting its owner like Apple exploited the workers.
Actually around half the population (and climbing) do not have souls because they are evil created by Satan. In fact these big corporations have sold themselves to satan for money and power and whatever else.
Some people are able to see into the invisible world and have seen a lot of the population are demons.
Just like in the movie "They Live". They (those at the top) show us the truth in movies. There is more truth in the movies than in the news. For example: there is no virus. They are making people sick with radiation. At some point they will jack up 5G and people will be falling like flies and they will tell you it it the virus.
If people would just shut the damned tv off and the damed APPLE PHONE off - there would be no virus.
They will not stop - they want total control over every individual as they have done in China.
Amen. No home is complete without a cat.
@@ToofKilla That was mightly valiant of you, apeslave, now change my sand!
Your telling me a child built this phone, but its still too complicated to fix?
Watching this on an iPhone
“Man I’m a piece of shit”
Lowkey everybody in america is a wasteful disgusting piece of shit including myself, we really dont care about anything but buyung more shit we dont need. Its pretty fucked up what weve done to the planet but who cares
I’m also a piece of shit but I need a smartphone for work, nothing I can do about that, but i don’t upgrade phones every year, I still use an iPhone 7 that I bought used and will continue to use until it stops working.
Always a “how do you do fellow Americans” in every comment section.
Buy a librem 5. If you want only USA made down to the last chip and screw tho it costs a premium but they offer it.
@@alejandrocervantes4523 Its not low key at all, it just means that half of the so called protesters and activists who constantly lecture us about how we are all racists are mostly full of shit, and are actually supporting slavery. The self aware left in Western society are the worst people on planet earth. Would be better if they just learned to either A do something about it or B stay quiet. Louis is right about right to repair on every level. Rampant consumerism and Capitalism are not one and the same. At least the right wing dont make claims about fixing the world, they want to fix America.
This is the same reason I dont buy Nikes. Or Beats by Dre headphones cost to manufacture: $9.97, retail price: $299.99
Same I don't buy any of that BS I tried to buy the most American-made no name brand but well-made items
Nike and Adidas for ex have tiny production costs then pay sports stars millions to promote their products and make vast profits, the sports stars and Nike, Adidas have no conscience or morals
@@susiebear3316 How do you find American made products? They seem almost non-existent.
@@rudyinthesky4967 exactly this. I usually go for army painter stuff (Denmark) for my miniatures or local made stuff. Big tech stuff is usually slave labour status
But trickle down economics
In ireland more than half of the people working in the production line got "laid off" (they never call them back, has happened before) also as a janitor myself I've been treated like scum during the pandemic even tho we are constantly doing more work than ussual and having to respect their bs of where janitors are allowed to eat, have a break, times to smoke, etc. Everyday there is a new regulation to make our life impossible.
I'm a janitor too and I know what you mean but I gotta say not all janitors everywhere are going to have the same experience. Where I work, there have been lots of new regulations and things but if you work for the right company/have the right boss then things won't get as bad as what it sounds like it has for you.
"Even peasants liked slaves as it meant that they werent the lowest class"
I like this quote. I hate that its true.
THIS WAS PLANNED IN THE DANK, DARK CATACOMBS OF THE LUGUBRIOUS CASTLE OF CAPITALISM !!!!!!
@@Queue3612 bruh... that hit so deep... and can be applied to so many subjects today... imma have to steal that
Do it the Idain way. Burn the building down.
I have to say from the pay scale you quoted for your own staff Louis that you are one of the fairest minded bosses ever! Kudos to you for that. Many business owners have made the mistake all too often of treating their staff as just a cog in their business machine to their detriment. The workers are the bread and butter of any business. Unhappy workers spread their aura of unhappiness . Customers pick up on it and before long revenue drops as customers begin to look elsewhere for a more pleasant experience in their business dealings.
The sad part here is that when you say "Why don't they pay them better?", they will say "But we would have to increase the price of our products!". Really, Apple? You have more money available in cash than the budget of a small country, yet you would HAVE TO increase the price :D
An even so. So what? So what if the flagship iPhone would have to cost twice the cost? All the iSheep would still buy it. At least they could feel good about ALL the people employed by the production chain.
you mean Wistron.
They're Wistron employees. The issue is that Apple is using companies that treat their employees like slaves.
@@molagsballs the problem is that Wistron is treating their employees like slaves. Apple is using a company which happened to be like this. No one knows if Apple willingly did it.
@@firmman4505 as he says in the video a trillion dollar company should evaluate the working standards of the companies they contact to avoid using slave labour
@@Sinr0ne because no one will do it elsewhere.
so with all these "woke" people in westernized cuntries, how is apple still in business again?
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they cater when it suits them sadly.. They don't really care,they just put on a fake show so they look better
@SomeLaveenGuy tru dat!
@SomeLaveenGuy 🙏🏾
Lip service.
Dang, I thought my 9$ an hour salary wasn't much. My one single hour is more than their full month?!
Ask for a raise bosses start u low if you do the job well ask for one. Then open a coinbase app acct and start putting your spare change into bitcoin. It was $3500 in 2016 its now $34000.
@@AboxofMonsters You should put your spare change into ammo.
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@@opium3843 I have an armory already. About one out of three males in Florida do. Patriots in control 😀
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Very high quality content from Louis Rossmann in both his experience and knowledge as well as opinions and ethics who values his customers and cares for his employees by focusing on their strengths by allotting very fair wages for what they do. You're great dude!
Meanwhile at Apple headquarters: "now we know, the limit is $6.80"
Now let's price our headphones at $699 with 99% margin
you mean at Winstron.
@@shiverbay what headphones only cost $699?
@@shiverbay 10000% margin.
The average income of these workers was 7500 rupees a month ($101.89 a month)
Whoever can live off of $7 a month needs to teach me how to budget
They can't live off $7 a month so they can't show us how to do it either.
One thing to remember is there is cost of living. Although the salary is very low, if the cost of living is equally low, then it is possible.
In the United States, it would be impossible. The Werefrog remember hearing that 25 cents would feed a family of 4 or a week in Haiti. The Werefrog didn't understand how, until The Werefrog learned that there's currency conversion and different cost of living.
However, The Werefrog won't defend $7 per month, especially when that worker provides value of a few hundred dollars per day to the company.
@@werefrogofassyria6609 A typical engineering job like this in India is around US$200/mth which still is not enough to support a family of three. $110 is the govt minimum wage for a young worker. $7 is an insult. How they get around the govt min wages is unknown. Probably bribes.
They can buy a bowl of curry chicken lunch for 60 cents so its like min wage work.
@@AboxofMonsters fulltime work, even at minimum wage, should buy meals everyday, not one week of one bowl of $0.60 curry.
Get real,or GTFO
For anyone who says "well the cost of living is lower over there" I would tell them to check the price of an Apple computer "over there". Or Internet service or a car. They will find that the cost of many products is actually higher than in the US.
It would seem logical that a person working to produce a product should be able to save up a bit of money to afford eventually to buy one of their products without sacrificing meals or their children's education. Any amount less is ridiculous.
@@silentstorm718 isheep alert, you know what he meant, dont go overboard lmao
@metro2002 dude no you can get a good second hand car in india for less than what the iPhone 12 pro costs. Not to say they aren't ripping people off. To survive on those wages for an engineer in Bangalore is not possible. You have to understand that the prices vary a lot based on the commodity. Rent will be super high in cities like that. In my city there are families who live in houses that are smaller than an American suburban bathroom and the rent still costs more than their entire wage
@@silentstorm718 Why not? Since we're going all extrapolation ad absurdium, the expertise required to produce a 737 is worth enough so the workers, as a group, should indeed earn enough over their careers to be able to consider doing so.
@@parthmalani6286 he's saying 12 iphones not iphone 12
This was very well said, thank you.
It's pretty mind blowing to know someone doing the exact same job as someone else in different countries has their pay throttled just because of location.
Misread the title and I was thinking it says 7$ per day which seemed low even considering low living costs of India. Then I looked closer and I'm speechless
XD could been worse if employees were kept quiet
Yeah even I was confused 7$ per day is actually good here . 7$/month is just a big no no.
Many more people even worse of than this of course
@@Okurka. Even 20,000 rupees a month in India is considered below the poverty line by the right wing fascist government of BJP themselves!
@@Okurka. in the video it is shown they were paid only Rs.500
They use a "contractor" to provide a layer between the workers and the company. It allows them to say "Well, how would we know?"
The most unbelievable part of this story is that you pay $40 a month for a bloomberg subscription.
It was only a matter of time before the people got fed up.
Until I stumbled onto this channel and listened to what you had to say I had absolutely no idea how important and how much stand behind and support what you are talking about. From here on end I will gladly find a computer repair shop and without hesitation, buy a refurbished phone. I love your position on ethical treatment of employees, fair wages and I adore that you are a fighter. Thank so you much Louis. I get why you have such a massive following. Listening to you is fuel for the soul.
iSheep: "OMG Apple cares for racial/class justice!"
Apple: Operates literal slave factories in 3rd world countries
Apple: Releases another overpriced shiny crap
iSheep: "OMG I NEED this product so much I will camp outside the store!"
@qtsssim Indeed.
India isn't a 3rd world country, they are just behind the times
www.ibef.org/industry/science-and-technology.aspx
economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/information-tech/indias-cash-rich-it-firms-look-to-acquire-deals-for-steady-revenue-flow/articleshow/79428998.cms
www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/20-years-on-india-s-cyber-cafes-disappearing-as-pocket-internet-takes-over/story-vszaWMYND6Mm2lqOxkx5SK.html
@@TheZombiesAreComing The point is that India is not a First World country. Not yet, anyways. Not as long as they continue producing First World goods and services while paying Third World wages. We pay our homeless welfare cases more than India was paying these engineers.
It's so frustrating because when all is said and done apple makes a good product. Overpriced sure, but it works. They could actually be a responsible company and still make trillions, but they prioritize more profits
@@Aguyinachair
That is naive thinking, Apple is corrupt, as are all the other tech giants. They couldn't care less about going what is "right".
Companies of the past actually gave a damn while companies of the present only care about maximizing their wealth and influence.
When people wonder how people was tolerating slavery in the past, well just look into a present throughout your iPhone.
Slavery went hand in hand with agriculture until the invention of the tractor. There was slavery for thousands upon thousands of years
@@GeorgeMonet Are you talking about Cow and Horse and Goat and Chicken slavery ? In which case I don't think people pulled plows or carts too often unless in extreme situations. And no people laid eggs or milked themselves.
@@plusmanikantanr Ever heard of a term "Serfdom" ?
Keep being you Louis. I'm happy someone is giving companies like Apple their due.
It's depressing that after ten years of work, those poor wage slaves still cant afford the latest iPhone
Why do they need to have something they will never have the the time to use it?? Isn't like making bullets and haven't a gun??
Officially the Un considered them in poverty. The world poverty line in $2 a day.
Many more peopoe living on even less than that...
The $2 a day is old it is probably much higher now and even so $2 a day is $60 a month not $6.
@@Okurka. Okay I will not believe what you said :P JK
$2 a day? what abt $7 a month?
And companies will defend this by saying "the customers demand these devices, we NEED to use cheap labor to keep them profitable". And this might be a hot take but I don't see how they're "barely making ends meet" when they are selling $1000+ phones! I work in a factory myself, and 1 (yes, ONE, a SINGLE) product is worth more than my entire month's salary. And a group of about 20 people making 8000-10000 per 8 hour shift. So our salary is basically not even making a difference in the company expenses, it's so insignificant. Where does there rest of the money go I wonder?
I worked in a factory years ago, that didn't pay the worst...but we would put out around $1,000,000 or product per 12 hour shift...and we only had 8 total employees working each shift, all making around minimum wage plus minimum raises. Companies can 100% afford to give their employees a better wage...but they choose profit every single time. This company was known to be one of the better ones to work for in my city, and I'll agree, it wasn't the worst place I've worked. But it just shows that anyone with half a brain can realize even the well respected company they work for is likely screwing them out of wages they could easily afford to pay. I've worked for small business and they seemed to be able to pay a decent wage...wonder why smaller companies can pull it off but bigger companies can't? Greed. Greed is always the answer.
Lobbyist,
I also work for a company that makes product for enterprise customers. The customer price of the stuff we produce ranges from 20K to 1M per line item, and the cost of parts is a few thousand. Where does the money go? Part of it is to recoup the development cost of the product, part of it goes to pay customer support, part of it software development, part of it to R&D, part of it goes to "transformation cost" (paying the CM to make it and paying their mark-up for materials), part of it goes to profit. Generally speaking a piece of consumer hardware is marked up 5-10 times the cost of the hardware + transformation cost. A $1000 phone "costs" Apple about $200, they have to recover their expenses (R&D + development + operating costs) from the remaining $800.
@@spuriustadius5034 Therefore Apple is justified in using labor that pays 6 dollars a month? I bet it's safe to assume the top 5 employees of Apple make more than the rest combined so that 800 left over is not going where you think it is lol
@@AaronHendu The Megas ALWAYS Lobby on the front end and apportion a kickback for the tax man, Legislators who write the Laws and to Lawmakers who enforce them.
Many things like shoes or clothes in India actually cost more than in the US. And wages of most people are pathetic. Strangely, govt employees have high salaries. The average worker in a private company is a slave, because he would starve if he left.
Especially electronics. We get the mega discounts here.
there are also more slaves in india than there are people living in austria.
last I checked
I wish people like you would only speak on things they know, my girlfriend is from India their clothes, bags, and many other crafted goods are dirt cheap with pretty decent quality is most cases.