I’m still going through Apple’s supplier responsibility guidelines. Chekkit:

Working hours

Apple’s Code sets a maximum of 60 work hours per week and requires at least one day of rest per seven days of work, while allowing exceptions in unusual or emergency circumstances.

It strikes me that companies which supply software to Apple, ones that I might have worked for, do not meet this standard.

Is buying software from companies that employ a constructive (in the sense of “created”), structural overtime development strategy a violation of business ethics? Of consumer ethics?

I wish I had the same rights as a Chinese factory worker.

If you’re being entertained by a software title ground out of the crushed dreams of pixel-stained wage-slaves does your guilt bone tweak as much as when you groove on a device from iPod City while jogging in your sweet sweatshop sneaks?

Or are we all just callously oppressing each other?