That is very much a secondary effect though. By buying a new Fairphone you are directly financing a Chinese ODM (T2Mobile) that develops the hardware and software, with proprietary Chinese TCL blobs.
And for the large price you get a phone with an SoC, cameras, and speakers of a 200-300 Euro phone.
Most of the extra cost does not go to wages, the extra wage cost is ~$1.90 according to their own marketing materials
Daniël
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