did you see the 12 death at foxconn

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what do you think about this

sorry 10 death.

12 persons who commits suicide
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTOE64P08H20100527?type=marketsNews
BEIJING, May 27 (Reuters) - An employee of iPhone-maker Foxconn (2038.HK) jumped to his death late on Wednesday, state media reported, the tenth suspected suicide this year at the high-tech firm's huge production base in southern China.
 
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Yeah, it was pretty good. Could have used some more ketchup, I think.


Actually I have no idea what you are talking about.
 
Well I guess if you want to be the world's biggest tech company you better start acting like it, huh?
 
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i don't know why they want to die.
12 persons a half of year.
 
He said the government was joining with the police and Foxconn to consider a range of ideas such as building up sports and cultural facilities to improve the living environment, Xinhua reported.
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Sheesh... they treat them like monkeys...
 
12 suicides out of 420,000 employees is now not something that is higher than the average rate of suicides in China.

According to this, China has even a pretty high rate of 13.9 suicides per 100,000 citizens.

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate"]List of countries by suicide rate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

So, in one year, if Foxconn has only average conditions and average citizens, 59 people should commit suicide - or 30 in half a year.
 
Surely you'd expect those 13.9 per 100,000 to be spread out a bit more over the population - seeing 12 in such a limited group does seem somewhat surprising.
 
Dambuster said:
Surely you'd expect those 13.9 per 100,000 to be spread out a bit more over the population - seeing 12 in such a limited group does seem somewhat surprising.
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Why? 420,000 employees can hardly be called "limited group".
 
Dambuster said:
Surely you'd expect those 13.9 per 100,000 to be spread out a bit more over the population - seeing 12 in such a limited group does seem somewhat surprising.
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Math fail.

If you've got 420,000 people, and you expect to see 13.9 deaths in 100,000 people, where exactly are you going to "spread out" too? You've got 4x more than 100,000 people, so you would expect to 4x more than 13.9 deaths.
 
There are some people calling for "boycotts" of foxconn but its not that simple

They make EVERY CPU socket in PCs and many other parts come from them. The real issue is the apple part of the planet where they are closed off from the rest of the plant and treated even worse. Apple itself was the first to name and shame them but has not put enough pressure on them to do better in my opinion.

They just have to improve working conditions.
 
It makes you think twice before throwing away your PC for a new one.
 
Thanks for sharing this.

In Poland the lowest possible salary is 400 USD gross, which is 300 net.
 
in china,some biggest citys, the lowest possible salary is 130 usd.and the house about 3000usd per square meter.
other city it is 80 usd or less.
 
shangding said:
in china,some biggest citys, the lowest possible salary is 130 usd.and the house about 3000usd per square meter.
other city it is 80 usd or less.
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For Russia:

Minimum salary 290 USD; Average low class salary in Moscow 670 USD.
Most cities currently: 1500 USD/m^2
Moscow: 4500 USD/m^2

You can have much less cost for an estate in a countryside, but who wants to live in a countryside? That automatically makes you earn 290 USD.
 
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