Samsung and Child Labor

[sgrizzle]

Samsung is resuming using child-labor since they are just contractors and not direct-hire:
http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/5/5970483/samsung-enforces-only-30-percent-of-its-zero-tolerance-child-labor-policy

[Townsend]

Samsung is resuming using child-labor since they are just contractors and not direct-hire:
http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/5/5970483/samsung-enforces-only-30-percent-of-its-zero-tolerance-child-labor-policy

Have they started sub-contracting the children from Governor Fallin and her new Fort Sill Immigrant program?

[Breadburner]

Kids need to be kept busy....Keeps them out of trouble.....

[guido911]

Kids need to be kept busy....Keeps them out of trouble.....

And whoever built my Samsung flatscreens did a heck of a job....

[guido911]

Have they started sub-contracting the children from Governor Fallin and her new Fort Sill Immigrant program?

I thought that was Michelle Bachmann's plan.

[Breadburner]

ADHD would be much less prevalent if we got them to work earlier in life.....Like the old days......Ahem.....!!

[TeeDub]

How else can you build cell phones?    Everyone knows adult fingers are too big.

[guido911]

I just get the feeling that some in the thread are just itching to jump on this:   

[sgrizzle]

How else can you build cell phones?    Everyone knows adult fingers are too big.

Anyone else see the movie "Crazy People"?

[Breadburner]

They put the Playskool tool sets to good use in other countries.....

[Townsend]

I just get the feeling that some in the thread are just itching to jump on this: 

I'm surprised you're okay with it.

[heironymouspasparagus]

I just get the feeling that some in the thread are just itching to jump on this:   

Love the picture!!


Whether Samsung uses kids or not, it will not impinge on our consciousness, nor our consciences.  Child labor was standard procedure in western European society for centuries.  As it was here until almost WWII. 

The first shot at making child labor illegal was 1924!  It failed.

1937 - second attempt - Failed!

Took until 1938 until child labor was made illegal in this country! 

So, we are still within the time-frame of people still alive, who may well have been forced to work as children!  So, we really can't take any kind of moral high ground on this just yet.  Especially when attitudes still exist as expressed by Breadburner a few lines back - one can only hope he is joking, but there are too many around who are not!   (There are none so pious as a repentant sinner...!)

[guido911]

I'm surprised you're okay with it.

I'm not. And I can only assume that those that posted in here are not in favor of sweatshop child labor either. Still trying to figure out what this is all about.

[heironymouspasparagus]

I'm not. And I can only assume that those that posted in here are not in favor of sweatshop child labor either. Still trying to figure out what this is all about.

Mildly satirical commentary on Samsung "parsing" how much child labor is satisfactory.  70% seems to be the magic number for the company.

Is it gonna get people to stop buying Samsung products?  Probably not.  Didn't stop the US from buying lots of Chinese stuff over the last 25 years.  Melamine in baby formula didn't stop us buying baby formula from China either.  We have high tolerance levels.....

[sauerkraut]

Samsung makes a lot of cell phones and electronic gear and I guess with the high demand they have to hire kids to keep  up with the demand. Is not LG and Samsung part of the same company?