And that's sort of the point - when you hire 1 million low skilled employees you are bound to hire mentally unstable people - the kind that commits suicide over

And that's sort of the point - when you hire 1 million low skilled employees you are bound to hire mentally unstable people - the kind that commits suicide over a relationship breakup, an argument, etc. I think this is a little biased, if not "racist" (class-ist?). I also take offense at the "they likely weren't 'normal' individuals". Who said that highly skilled people are less "mentally unstable"? If anything, they can be much more fickle and prone to self-questioning over minor shit. In any way, the workers at those places weren't much lower of higher skilled than the majority of the Chinese population --which includes expansive masses of no degree holders, factory and retail workers and farmers. (Let me unleash the anecdotal: Howard Hughes, Godel, Turing, Nash, the list of highly skilled guys turning cuckoo is huge. Not to mention highly skilled Asperger sufferers and the like).