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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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Foxconn suicide rates in 2011 were:
- One half of the UK's suicide rate.
- One quarter of the suicide rate at US Colleges.
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One tenth that of the rest of China.
Because I know someone will twist this - this doesn't make Foxconn working conditions "ok". Nobody should be killing themselves at all - never mind on the job. But the suicides themselves aren't the homerun metric by which we can vilify Foxconn, contrary to the belief of the average head-in-the-sand media consumer.