Foxconn suicede numbers.

[WhipperSnapper]

$32/week, no breaks, living in a company city--coming to a United States soon near you, sponsored by global labor arbitrage. Is that what we want to merge our nation's economy and standard of living with?

 

[CrazyHelloDeli]

Thx 1138

 

[Zebo]

More liberal sensationalism. Fact is that the workers CHOOSE to do these jobs. To them, landing a job like this is like finding a gold mine. Before, they were barely able to survive by farming. Now, they get free food and living areas AND they make a wage and can save their money.

Why do you say people have a choice? If you mean work or you and children starve to death that's not much of a choice is it?

IMO most workers in the world are coerced into work. It's not like the old days where you could sake a plot of land and sustain from it.

So at this point in time with X having control of capital and Y needing to eat to me it only becomes a question of how much control X has. It's somewhere between half the profits and slavery I don't know but those conditions sound like shit.

 

[Zorkorist]

Of course they have a choice.

They can subsistance farm, or join the industrial revolution.

AFAIK, the suicides were a cluster of suicides, which is obviously, sick.

-John

 

[WhipperSnapper]

They died for our motherboards.

 

[Zorkorist]

tHERE'S bLOOD ON YOUR MOTHERBOQRD!

-JOHN

 

[0roo0roo]

I don't see what the big story is.... who cares?

this.


big chinese factories are massive factory towns. most american's don't understand the scale.


anyways poor chinese folks working at this places have potential to save up for a house back in their home town or such, moving up in living standards.
you can't say that about poor americans working at walmart

 

[Zorkorist]

It's a cluster of suicides.

I would hope we all care.

=John

 

[Fox5]

$32/week, no breaks, living in a company city--coming to a United States soon near you, sponsored by global labor arbitrage. Is that what we want to merge our nation's economy and standard of living with?

Err, the US (and most of Europe) already had this while they were industrializing. In fact, China's industrialization seems to be nicer than the equivalent periods in US and European history.

Now to be really insensitive, I hope it wasn't the RMA department that jumped, I've got a motherboard that needs fixin'...