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There's a difference between making federal minimum wage and the indentured servitude these workers find themselves in. McDonalds workers are free to go home at
by vorpalhex 5y ago
There's a difference between making federal minimum wage and the indentured servitude these workers find themselves in. McDonalds workers are free to go home at the end of their shift and eat whatever they want. These workers sleep 8 to a room with no temperature control, no privacy, shared bathrooms and rations that we literally would not feed to prisoners.
We aren't talking about 100 or 200 people. We are talking about 1 million as of 2011. Foxconn's solution to suicide jumpers was.. netting. There's shitty working conditions and then there's.. this.
https://www.wired.com/2011/02/ff-joelinchina/ https://www.wired.com/2011/02/ff-joelinchina/
- quesera 5y agoFoxconn workers are free to go home also. Those living conditions are pretty awful, but not unique. Regionally, it's just on the bad side of ordinary. Obviously tainted food is always serious, and it sounds like the oversight there was abysmal. Remember that Apple shut the plant down until it's fixed. 1 million employees, not 1 million exploited suicidal wastrels. San Francisco's solution to jumpers from the Golden Gate bridge was ... counseling services, cameras, and nets. Just like Foxconn! What would you suggest instead?
- martin8412 5y agoThe US has forced labor where they are literally not allowed to leave? See some weeks back where workers were killed due to bad weather.
- xboxnolifes 5y agoThey weren't physically unable to leave. They were not given permission to leave the work day early. Nothing stopped them from terminating employment to leave.