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Without the exploitation of cheap labor and China work practices, your iPhone would cost 10,000 dollars.

Apple would be more like a Cartier or Tiffany...A few small exclusive shops around Monaco and the Cote de Azur.

Without the exploitation of cheap labor and China work practices, we would have been motivated to automate the manufacturing process and your iPhone would cost 100 dollars.

It’s paradoxical how companies aren’t self motivated. Look at fossil fuel car companies.

But yeah, Apple would have automated things. Except the part where they pass the savings on to end customers.

Furthermore in Apple’s case, they want China to be rich, too, because that’s a big market.

I’d prefer that.

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