Moving production back to the U.S. would not solve the human rights issue. The UN has called out the homeless crisis that’s right in Apple’s backyard as being a human rights violation. Other commentators compare ICE detention centers to concentration camps or chastise the high number of prisoners the U.S. has even outside of ICE detention centers.
Clearly no country is perfect, but if Apple were to relocate production based on human rights, it seems like a Northern European country would be the most appropriate place.
>Moving production back to the U.S. would not solve the human rights issue...
You didn't read the fine print. They're not even talking about moving production to the US. Which only makes the idea of solving human rights abuses by moving even more puzzling?
I mean, Hon Hai capacity is in nations with human rights abuses for a reason.
> Other commentators compare ICE detention centers to concentration camps
I find it hard to draw a line between the human rights violations of the Muslims by China and detaining Central Americans for illegally crossing the US border.
Why not to the US, wouldn't that help solve the homeless problem? If ALL countries that were hiring outside right now started hiring here, wouldn't that help?
The different in production cost between the US and the current origin countries is vast, but not even the only factor. There were stories a few years ago highlighting how the iPhone could not have been built in the US on the schedule Apple demanded at any price.
But if scheduling is ignored, then the only issue becomes cost.
Maybe something got garbled somewhere... Comparing ICE detention centers to concentration camps is clearly absurd, but comparing them to US internment camps [0] doesn't seem so far-fetched to me. Note that the Wikipedia article calls these "concentration camps" in the opening paragraph, so I'm not even sure it's fair to automatically assume "concentration camp" implies "Nazi death camp".
ICE detention centers are closer to prisons than they are to nazi death camps. Calling ICE detention centers concentration camps is just pushing the "Trump is a nazi/Orange man bad" concept to its illogical conclusion.
Clearly no country is perfect, but if Apple were to relocate production based on human rights, it seems like a Northern European country would be the most appropriate place.