By the time a gadget reaches Apples flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York City or any other U.S. retailer, it may have passed through the hands of a heavily indebted Filipina migrant worker on the graveyard shift in Taiwan, a Taiwanese “quality control” worker wholl soon be fired without warning, and a young Chinese worker clocking 80-hour weeks on a final assembly line, at less than a dollar an hour.

via Apple News | Supply Chain Management.

I’m glad that someone has taken the time to write this sort of article. This all relates back to the Story of Stuff in which we are all somewhat guilty of supporting such a system. I’m typing this post on a Lenovo laptop and I am not sure where it was assembled &c.