I thought that these issues were pretty much common knowledge since the whole Apple worker death issue made big headlines in the early 2010’s. There are no ethically manufactured electronics. None. Full stop. The closest thing would be a device like the FairPhone, but even the creators admit that they could not make it 100% ethically manufactured. Abuse of all kinds is rampant in Chinese manufacturing. Corporations don’t care because everybody still buys the products. Nintendo was almost definitely aware of these issues because they work with some of the biggest known abusers in the industry. This Is a very difficult problem to solve, because it is an international one, and also a corporate one (I.e. only profits matter to the corporations and manufacturers, human welfare is irrelevant unless it impacts profits). People need to start complaining to these corporations, and buy as few electronics as possible (because all brands are complicit in these practices), and only purchase as normal from companies that show a huge effort to solve these problems. So far as I’ve seen, even the best efforts so far have been underwhelming at best.
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Re: Nintendo Named And Shamed As Benefiting From The Use Of Chinese Forced Labour Camps
I thought that these issues were pretty much common knowledge since the whole Apple worker death issue made big headlines in the early 2010’s. There are no ethically manufactured electronics. None. Full stop. The closest thing would be a device like the FairPhone, but even the creators admit that they could not make it 100% ethically manufactured. Abuse of all kinds is rampant in Chinese manufacturing. Corporations don’t care because everybody still buys the products. Nintendo was almost definitely aware of these issues because they work with some of the biggest known abusers in the industry. This Is a very difficult problem to solve, because it is an international one, and also a corporate one (I.e. only profits matter to the corporations and manufacturers, human welfare is irrelevant unless it impacts profits). People need to start complaining to these corporations, and buy as few electronics as possible (because all brands are complicit in these practices), and only purchase as normal from companies that show a huge effort to solve these problems. So far as I’ve seen, even the best efforts so far have been underwhelming at best.