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I remember reading some reports that actually looked at suicide rate based on the number of people working there and didn't find it that elevated compared to th

I remember reading some reports that actually looked at suicide rate based on the number of people working there and didn't find it that elevated compared to the average. Fact is, anytime you have a big concentration of people in a small place you will have some suicides just by virtue of statistics, so I'm not sure if there's really a much higher number of suicides or if the few that did happen were sensationalised because it sells. That's not to say that working in a company like Foxconn is the nicest possible job (it's not but it seems to be better than a lot of places) or that China is great and can do no wrong (I'm generally very critical of the CCP) but I do think that sometimes it's easy to just spin up a story to shock people because that sells.

snoot 4y ago
Yup - the suicide nets story is pure disinformation. Yes they had nets, but the suicide rate at the factory before the nets were installed was lower than of students at US colleges.
- xypage 4y ago
  Do you have a source for this?
jonas21 4y ago
In addition, while suicide nets might sound silly, they actually do reduce the suicide rate. They're being installed on bridges all over the US for exactly that reason. For example: https://www.goldengate.org/district/district-projects/suicide-deterrent-net/ https://www.goldengate.org/district/district-projects/suicid...
andai 4y ago
Suicides or no, I watched a documentary about how the women who work at chipmaking companies, due to the chemicals involved, all developed serious health problems with their hormones and reproductive system.