[citation][nom]Tomtompiper[/nom]Statistically this makes Foxcon one of the safest places to work. The suicide rate in the US is around 20 people per 100,000 per year, Foxcon has 250,000 employees, do the math folks before jumping to conclusions.[/citation]
you should do your own math, 250,000/14=1 in every 17,857 people working at foxconn.
judging from the comments there's alot of chinese reading this site. my question to them is : is it really worth living in prison for the money? they don't get to choose what foods to buy/eat at the market, they don't get to leave the premises, they don't get to see family friends or loved ones, they don't get to talk to their co-workers even when they aren't working, they aren't even permited sexual relations unless they're raped by the gaurds. cripes prisoners in america even get to see their family and talk to each other more and eat better food and they get paid nothing! some american poor people even try to get thrown in jail during the winter and american prisoners try to kill each other over which gang they belong in!
point is the employees are treated like prisoners, they have no outside contact and next to nothing to enjoy, and you think it's no big deal to kill yourself in china?! well i suppose that's communism for you, i suppose all the objectors were run over by tanks already.
it's a pity your only world is a little cage in a communist country. europe and north and south america aren't like that unless the people involved actually are captured slaves.
oh well i understand you have to do the great leaders mao's bidding (yes i know he's dead and look at the power still being exuded) in this war to destroy america with economics instead of nuclear bombs. it is going to cost china as dearly as it cost the soviets to fight the nazi's.