> "Six years ago the press lit up with stories about how smartphones are made. Like earlier revelations about Nike trainers and other apparel made in sweatshops it was an already too familiar story of brutalised, over-worked and under-paid child labour in factories around the world. In 2018 when the Guardian broke a story based on a book by Brian Merchant 1 of suicidal young women throwing themselves from the roof of Chinese prison-factories, the response of the public was tepid.
> People simply could not process the idea that their precious iPhones were not actually made by Apple, by well fed white Americans in the green campuses of Cupertino, but by thirteen year old's in dark, satanic Chinese factories. We simply went into denial.
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