Singlish | 
from the sweatshop
Whenever you toy with your beloved iPhone, has it ever crossed your mind that it came from a certain factory in Shenzhen, China?I am not a fan of the iPhone, but neither am I anti-Apple. In fact I believe I am in possession of things that could have come from a sweatshop in other parts of the world. Electronic goods, apparels, furnitures. Things that the workers on the assembly line can't afford themselves. How many foreign workers can afford the HDB flats / condominiums that they helped build?
Is it our consumerism / materialism that is fueling other people's misery? One may argue that without us buying these products, the workers will be jobless. But that is no excuse for ill-treating workers. Like I said before, bosses will always want the most output from the workers with the least input, while the reverse is true for workers.
Either way, I still won't buy an iPhone.
this again brings up the question of how contracting companies are functioning. just like those cleaning companies who won contracts from major statboards by bidding the lowest, how much are they paying their cleaners (or whether on time in the 1st place)?
so maybe foxconn clinched the deal fr MNCs like apple, and promised to deliver more than they could within a super short period? then in the end, the ones that suffer are the workers again.