I can see completely how all these people are driven to commit suicide. Really I can! The worst part is not the low wages, nor the armed thugs dressed in security clothes that beat you up for no reason at all, but the verbal abuse! Yes, the verbal abuse, that is the worst! I think I detect a pattern here: I am a Chinese now living in Hong Kong. When I lived in Toronto, Canada many years ago, IBM was still making and selling PCs. The assembling of the PCs selling locally was contracted out to Acer, the big Taiwanese IT company in Mississauga, a suburb of Toronto. The hiring of factory workers are contracted out by Acer to a small local HR agency (therefore, owned and run by white men and not the problem in this story). On the factory floor, all the supervisors are all Taiwanese and they only hired (through the agency of course) desperate immigrants like me and others from China, India, Pakistan and elsewhere to work as workers. It was in Canada, so the security guards beating you up part does not apply in this story. Anyway, I started working there from July. When the back-to-school rush was coming to an end by mid-August, I noticed that is when the supervisors really crank up the verbal abuse, and they will yell at you for anything, or for no reason at all almost every time they walk by you. And this verbal abuse will die down by September after many people left. By around November they will hire many new comers for the Christmas rush. And by about early December when the Christmas rush is coming to an end, they will crank up the verbal abuse again…... In hindsight, I can see what they are doing in my case: I believe that they are strategically using verbal abuse as some kind of psychological weapon to make you leave the company on your own so that they can save on severance payments when they don’t need you, the redundant workers, after the high season is over. Sure you can complain to the HR agency but what can they do about it? Nothing. For those who do not leave on your own, the supervisors know who you are and know that you are desperate to make a living. It is not like you can form a union because Acer does not hire you, it is the small HR agency that did. I strongly believe the Taiwanese employ heavy verbal abuse as a tool to attempt to control the lower rank Chinese workers in today’s Taiwanese-run Foxconn, plus the low wages and the security guards beating you up part of the story, of course! Take my word for it, if you are subject to verbal abuse long enough like I did, you will feel and act like a slave. And at that point, suicide does not look too bad as an option. And by the way, enjoy using that iphone and ipad of yours, just don’t get too surprised when you find blood on your hand afterwards!