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Yes, but this game isn't just about random workplace suicides. It's about workplace suicides in the context of manufacturing phones. It's about the specific pla
by muraiki 15y ago
Yes, but this game isn't just about random workplace suicides. It's about workplace suicides in the context of manufacturing phones. It's about the specific plant that manufactures these phones. That context is important to understanding the game, and taken outside of that context, yes it would be absurd.
- robin_reala 15y agoDidn’t someone run the numbers and find that the number of suicides / head at Foxconn was significantly lower than the number of suicides / head for the general population in that region?
- cube13 15y agoIIRC, it was something like 20 suicides in the last year, with Foxconn employing 300,000-400,000 people at the facility. According to wikipedia(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_ra...), the average total number of suicides per 100,000 in China is around 6.6. So you get, depending on the actual number of workers, either the national average for China, or slightly below it.
- sambeau 15y agoIts also lower than a similar demographic from the US.
- burgerbrain 15y agoWe should really be comparing the Foxconn suicide rate with the suicide rate of employed people in the surrounding area. I suspect that the currently unemployed may up a decent part of the general population suicide rate.
- flamingbuffalo 15y agoyeah: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/foremski/media-gets-its-facts-wrong-working-at-foxconn-significantly-cuts-suicide-risk/1356 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/foremski/media-gets-its-facts-wron...