Not to sound overly cynical, but this looks like another "naive reporter discovers how the sausage is made" story. It's always good to get some perspective on these things, but to this forum it doesn't seem like it will be a revelation. Tech manufacturing is an enormous and enormously dirty industry. We're all complicit, of course.
Separately, I'm not sure I like his usage of "dystopian."
Separately, I'm not sure I like his usage of "dystopian."