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Foxconn has lots of factories in lots of different places. Does it matter to specify which factory / place has the problem?
by temp8964 5y ago
Foxconn has lots of factories in lots of different places. Does it matter to specify which factory / place has the problem?
- johannes1234321 5y agoNo, it doesn't matter, as cheap labor in on fab subsidizes the other fabs, even if those would have best working conditions thinkable.
- ben_w 5y agoPerhaps, but unlikely. I can’t find how many people worked at Foxconn at the time, but right now it’s employing more than the population of any of the smallest eight US states. Wikipedia’s list of suicide rates by state is from a different year than the population, but it looks like those states are about 5 times the population-adjusted rate that Foxconn had. Wikipedia also says that China’s national suicide rate is difficult to study due to political concerns, before saying the WHO says it was 9.7/100k in 2016. That would mean you should expect closer to 126 suicides per year (in Foxconn’s current workforce), rather than the 14 in 6 months that made the news.
- gjsman-1000 5y agoSteve Jobs was actually asked in an interview about Foxconn, and while he said suicides are horrible, they aren’t out of line with the general population statistically. Even though that was widely considered unfeeling.