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Originally Posted by Russic
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).
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This is my main issue with the whole story. I've not seen a single article contrasting "life at Foxconn" against life in lower-class China in general.
A lot of people seem to only get half of what a Foxconn suicide says. Clearly, they'd rather die than continue working there, and that is a tragedy. But what seems to be forgotten in all this is that they'd also rather die than just quit their job and work in a mine or some other factory.
We're getting a look at how awful life is for some Chinese through this story, but I'm not convinced that Foxconn is responsible for it. They're guilty of taking advantage of China's existing social problems for cheap manufacturing, and so are hundreds of other companies.