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12 f2 made in china really tight to mount

Started Nov 15, 2012 | Questions thread
Hagane
Hagane Regular Member • Posts: 114
Re: 12 f2 made in china really tight to mount

micksh6 wrote:

There are many known cases of suicide at Chinese factories. Most notable at Foxconn that manufactures Apple products, but these can't be exceptions, such things happen everywhere.

I'm  not saying that the working conditions can't be improved or suggesting that everything is fine over there. But the number of suicides at Foxconn isn't something special.

Take into account how many people are working at Foxconn (counts go up as high as 450.000 people in China alone). Sure a headline like "16 suicides at foxconn last year" sounds horrible at first. But here in EU suicide rates are somewhat between 8-12 per 100.000 per year.

So the Foxconn suicide rate doesn't seem extraordinary. But is sure makes a good news item, especially because there's Apple involved (and nearly every electronics company on the planet, but it seems that isn't worth mentioning....)

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