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At Apple, the ratio of Foxconn employees at work on Apple products to U.S.-based Apple employees is 10-to-1: 250,000 Foxconn workers to 25,000 Apple workers. The same ratio exists at Dell.

Huh, bullsh*t. I don't know what the average Apple worker gets paid but I'm assuming that most of them are developers (or related), so it's in the $100K/year. What about their Chinese counter part? I don't have any data but based on my country which has better wages in average it should be in the $10K/year ballpark if not less.

And it's quite a lot different, the USA developer buys a nice car in his first year, while the poor Chinese worker may never figure out how to get an old one.




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