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It's not the technology and innovation. It's the lax environmental regulations and labor arbitrage.



"labor arbitrage"? You're saying it isn't fair because the middle income country selling phones to the low income country isn't paying money for high income workers instead? I can sort of understand why someone could think that it's good that phones sold in a country are made in that same country, but insisting that all phones sold everywhere be manufactured in the first world just exhibits a breathtaking sense of entitlement.


I'm saying that the real cost of the phone, in human and ecological factors, is much greater than $50.




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