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Don't forget the suicide nets at Foxconn instead of improving working conditions
by collingreen 2y ago
Don't forget the suicide nets at Foxconn instead of improving working conditions
- sneak 2y ago1) foxconn isn’t apple 2) the suicide rate at the foxconn factory was, even before the nets, lower per capita than the province in which it is situated. using your logic, the foxconn factory simply existing prevents deaths that would have otherwise happened if it did not. i’m all for calling apple on their shit when warranted, but the suicide nets meme needs to die.
- ludicrousdispla 2y ago>> the foxconn factory simply existing prevents deaths that would have otherwise happened if it did not. That only holds if the foxconn employees were randomly selected from the general population.
- nickff 2y agoIf Foxconn workers had either average or worse-than-average mental health (in their country), this outcome appears to be positively impacted by their employer. This seems like a reasonable assumption, unless you have some countervailing information. Calling out unspoken assumptions can be useful, but it's not a refutation unless the assumptions are unreasonable or demonstrably wrong.
- ludicrousdispla 2y agoA reasonable assumption would be that Foxconn has some candidate screening that filters out applicants that may potentially be suicidal.
- yencabulator 2y agoThis argument can also be used in case a company uses child labor, but less of it than someone else. Or for people owning fewer than average slaves.
- stuaxo 2y agoNot saying they are good, but all tall buildings in Taiwan have suicide nets like the ones mentioned at Foxconn. The west should copy this, nets are known to prevent a lot of suicide, in general people don't immediately go and try again.