Our class just read an article called "In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad". It was written by Charles Duhigg and David Barboza. The article is about the workers making apple products in harsh conditions. They work inside of plants and factories. Apple workers say they want better wroking conditions, but it would cost a lot of money. Two explosions happened, four people died and about 80 people were injured. The Chinese people told Apple they were working in bad conditions and nothing was done about it. One day last May a worker named Lai Xiadong got half of his face blown off because of the working conditions he was in. Steve Jobs made the company Apple, he died in 2011. Lai died because of his injuries. They sent his ashes to and 150,000 dollars to his house. It has been more injuries and deaths because of the factories and places these people work in.
I don't think people should work in conditions like these, whether it's China or any other Country. People who get injured might start to sue if there is no contract involved. Apple might start to lose money because of what's going on. More people might start to die also. If the conditions are getting worse or already too bad they need to shut down the factories. Maybe they just need to improve the factories or find out what's causing these incidents to happen. If the conditions are too bad, the workers should just leave their job. If bad things have happened and nothing was done about it, i'm pretty sure more things are likely to happen.
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