Dev has become an avid newspaper reader. Recently he came by asking what an effigy meant and then told me that he read the word in an article about the suicides at Foxconn, the Chinese plant of the company manufacturing parts for Apple products.
I thought I would test the conscience meter on this digital-native 10-yr old.
"If you had an i-Phone or an i-Pad and knew, that to produce it people had been put through an almost inhumane working environment - leading them to commit suicide even - how would you feel about using the instrument?"
"Well, I first need to find out if somebody really committed suicide trying to make the parts of my iPhone," he began. "If I do find somebody died making the iPhone for me, then I will use it even more. You know, in memory of that person."
It was said with such sincerity. Not quite with the sneer that would accompany this retort if a hip materialistic wannabe was putting down a pain-in-the-ass tree hugger.
Ah, the innocence of childhood.
