From Where? Deconstructing the I-Phone & Electronics

Mother Jones Magazine provides a short answer to this one. Read the short article and check out their interactive graphic.

With globalization, variations on the enclosure movements, and deep poverty from fundamental Malthusian trends (population outstrips resources, at some point), the Dickensonian conditions of early industrialization have also been supersized and off-shored revealing the dark underbelly of shiny success. How successful would Apple be, or any of the other successful companies without the exploitation of super-cheap labor? Is this condition an anamoly or endemic of global production, often state supported? Is it a necessary step in the global capitalist upgrade of the world society's production capacity and quality of life, or is it an amoral sleight of hand for wealth concentration? Will markets eventually equalize somewhat the power differential that makes such extreme exploitation possible through the creation of a global middle class and expansion of capital, thereby blunting the sharp edge of exploitation upon which the system depends? Will the shift to an ecologically regenerative economy and society occur before the industrial bubble economy destroys the environment, that is, the fundamental economy upon which the human economy depends, rendering issues of exploitation (labor, environment, or otherwise) moot? Not if we make a choice to create a sustainable economy and society, undertake the mass mobilization and changes required, grow up and pierce the illusions of our industrial bubble economy and understand real-world economics of wealth production for all. The paradox of this moment is that this voluntary choice is mandatory. Will we make it? Those are the question underlying the exploitative conditions of current success.