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Originally Posted by obsessed2
These people should consider themselves lucky. They could be working for this company instead:
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According to Wikipedia, Foxconn has 1.23 million employees, and mainland China, where most work, has a suicide rate of 223.2 per million population per year. That's quite high, and almost twice that in Taiwan, where Foxconn has its headquarters. But even at the Taiwan (or US, or Canada, or UK) suicide rate, there would be several Foxconn workers a week committing suicide. So I am mystified what I am to make of the one tragic suicide highlighted. While I am in favor of Apple using its outsized profits (and Amazon its normal profits) to improve Chinese working conditions, your link seemed overheated and didn't convince me of anything.
I'm convinced that export industry generally improves working conditions for people is developing countries. There are indeed two Chinas, and the
China to cry about is not the one making our devices.
By contrast, I'm far from convinced that Amazon warehouses improve working condition in Europe or the US -- it looks like the opposite.