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Foxconn CEO: There’s Nothing Wrong With Sweatshops [Lost In Translation]

(8:32 am PDT, May 3rd 2012)

Foxconn CEO: There’s Nothing Wrong With Sweatshops [Lost In Translation]

We all work in a sweatshop and we love it!

Whether or not Foxconn’s running sweatshops is some matter of debate. The China Labor Watch says Foxconn’s iPhone assembly lines are sweatshops, while the Fair Labor Association says that factory worker conditions are much, much better than at actual sweatshops.

Now Foxconn CEO Terry Gou is trying to settle the debate. Yes, Gou says, Foxconn may well be running a sweatshop… but what’s wrong with sweatshops anyway?

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