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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
Hrm. Still doesn't address the bigger issue. The reason people were killing themselves wasn't because of the wages. It was the living conditions. From what I read, it was like a prison. People lived, slept, ate and worked at this factory. Mostly worked. One man died after being forced to work for 34 hours straight. Working 70 hours a week is common. The Bill Maher story on it was that because of all the suicides from people jumping off the factory roof, instead of improving the working conditions, Foxconn just built nets to catch the jumpers.
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So how bad would I get ripped if I said the suicide rates at Foxconn are actually lower than the rest of China? It's not to say that Foxconn suicides aren't a problem, just maybe that whenever you get 800,000 people together in a country with a high suicide rate it's going to happen (and it seems to happen less than you'd expect at Foxconn).