Behind The Scenes: The Dehumanizing Secret of the Smartphone World

Smartphones is an item that everyone wants and needs. If you live in the 21^st century and are fortunate enough to live in a developed country, getting access to a smartphone shouldn’t be that difficult. As consumers, we pay hundreds upon hundreds of dollars for these phones. And seemingly, all this money seems worth it. We are buying a techy piece of materials that makes our lives easier. It lets us communicate with people all around the world and it provides us with applications that can track everything about us; from our credit cards to our poop cycles. All the money seems worth it. But, far away in a less developed country, tiny 12-year-old hands are building the parts for these phones. And they’re getting paid less than $2 a day.

These people working in sweatshops are baited into a life they never thought of. Often, workers in sweatshops are offered good money, a place to live and food. When you’re a person living on the side of the streets desperate for a job to provide for your family, this deal seems remarkable. However, this is just a scam. The rooms are filled with thousands of people squashed in a tiny place. Sanitation doesn’t exist; they take showers using buckets of water from a tiny stream of water. Money? What money. Some of the individuals barely get paid. The worst part is that so many of these sweatshop buildings have nets surrounding them. Why? To stop people from committing suicide. The conditions in a sweatshop are so severe and deteriorating that people consider taking their own lives.

You’re probably reading this blog from a laptop, computer, tablet or smartphone. Hopefully, you realise how fortunate you are to be on the receiving end on all of this technology. The world of sweatshops needs to be banished. It is unfair and dehumanizing to allow these individuals to work in such poor conditions.

- Maddie

Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweatshop-free
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=iPhone+sweatshop&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=979&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiS84C379XMAhWmJaYKHdgyC2wQ_AUIBSgA&dpr=1