I used to run a factory for a multinational in southern china and have seen significant improvements in living standards of our own staff and to a lesser extent in the general population. The opportunities and choices available to chinese people are greater now than in 1992 when Chairmen Deng. But, it is not all good. Local companies care less about working conditions than western ones and the general economic and social upheaval is creating losers as well as winners.
Western consumers are right to look for low prices but we should also pressure companies to ensure that certain standards are maintained whilst delivering them. If this happens, we get the benefit of goods and services at lower prices and the people who provide them get jobs that would not otherwise exist.
In this case, maybe Apple investigators got a fair view of Foxconn, maybe they did not. But, either way, the exposure contributes to the general improvement.
In the interests of rivet counting (a thing model railway types are prone to do): Hornby do not make HO (half "O", approximately 3.5mm to 1 foot) scale models, they actually use "OO" (a bastard combination of models at 4mm to 1ft on HO track). OO is mostly used for models of British trains.
I can confirm that digital control systems have been around for some time.
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Western consumers are right to look for low prices but we should also pressure companies to ensure that certain standards are maintained whilst delivering them. If this happens, we get the benefit of goods and services at lower prices and the people who provide them get jobs that would not otherwise exist.
In this case, maybe Apple investigators got a fair view of Foxconn, maybe they did not. But, either way, the exposure contributes to the general improvement.