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WTF!? 13 Suicide Attempts, 10 Successful in China iPhone Factory! Will you continue to buy Apple, Inc. products if they are made by workers in dangerous working conditions? Please don't change the question. I only used the China Factories as an example, so let me rephrase. If Apple, Inc. products were made in sweat shops, by workers (significant child labor) putting in 12-hours/daily, 7-days/week, and compensated poorly ... Will you continue to buy Apple, Inc.? |
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No, nobody is forcing Foxconn workers to commit suicide, Foxconn is a factory in China, highly supervised and very strict to make sure products come out good. Foxconn and Apple are two different companies. Foxconn is a major supplier for most US companies. So if you're going to stop buying from Apple, I guess you're going to have to stop buying from HP, Dell, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, the Amazon Kindle, and Cisco as well. The companies I listed don't. 1
yes, HP uses ASUS, and I really don't know about DELL these days but they also used asus 1
The Foxconn factories are extremely strict and have terrible working condition for terrible pay. It doesn't surprise me that this happened. There is also a story about a man that was working for 36 hours straight and at the end of his shift he came back to his dorm (which are located on the Foxconn facilities) and died. He was a young man with no medical problems but when you stress a persons body enough, bad stuff happens. This happened in the middle of all of the suicides too. Foxconn can't stop them from saying "I quit!". StigJensen I think you need to do some more research, both of those companies that you mentioned use Foxconn.
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New Article > Foxconn Installs Anti-Suicide Nets at Its Facilities
*That's one way to address the problem. {Can you detect the sarcasm?}* If I worked there I would jump out just to try the nets. Although the people on the second floor look like they could still break their legs. With all that machinery in the factory there are plenty of other ways people could kill them selves more effectivly then jumping out a 3-4th story window. I vote for this was a publicity stunt to get people off there backs. |
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Why are so many people saying they don't care? That bothers me what if a factory in the U.S.A. was secretly working people like they do in China and workers committed scuicide because of that there would be an up roar. "But China they're from a different country so I don't care I just want my cheaply made crap." (sarcasm) |
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Not to diminish the lives lost, but this is kinda old news. Wikipedia has a page on the factory with a mention of the suicides and working conditions. It's not just Apple iProducts that are produced there, by the way -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#Employee_suicides_and_deaths For a study in statistics, however, this is the article you should read -- "Media gets its facts wrong - working at Foxconn significantly cuts suicide risk" (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/foremski/media-gets-its-facts-wrong-working-at-foxconn-significantly-cuts-suicide-risk/1356) which states:
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It's very sad that the world have come to this, and it's really sad to live in a world where a litte crappy "%" sign on a piece of paper have the power to kill people. |
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meh. I say it's not my problem and there's a lot more worry about in the us right now. Have you heard about the gulf lately? or are you going to find out about it in a month and ask people what they think about it on lockergnome? |
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Not to be mean but truthfully I really don't care. Sorry but thats what I feel. Yes I will continue to buy Apple products. |
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They must justt be sick of the iPhones. :) I know I would be. |
I stopped buying from Apple, Inc before I bought from them.
I think you just hate Apple period.
HATE is such a strong word. I like & own some Apple, Inc. products & stock ... but I refuse to blindly follow the propaganda & hype that's excreted from the bowels of Apple, Inc.
Worth it ! sorry if this sound racist and slavery but is their choice to work for apple and to suicide themselves
If there are uneducated they don't have a choice. The Chinese government is very oppressive so I doubt they even care that this happened.