I mean, lots of comparatively wealthy people are under some pretty horrible working conditions, so I don’t know that I would call the two tightly linked.
Sure, Foxconn should probably pay at rates that are livable for their workers, but the more acute problem is probably to not drive their workers so hard that they attempt suicide.
It’s mostly a matter of statistics. Those factories don’t have a higher risk of suicide than any other job, they just employ so many people that a few suicides a year is inevitable.
Is the problem really one of salary when it comes to the suicide nets?
Are the workers driven to suicide for the low pay, or is this actually a matter of horrifyingly bad working conditions?
Well I guess a lot can change with money…
The worse people are payed, the more they are prone to exploitation no?
I mean, lots of comparatively wealthy people are under some pretty horrible working conditions, so I don’t know that I would call the two tightly linked.
Sure, Foxconn should probably pay at rates that are livable for their workers, but the more acute problem is probably to not drive their workers so hard that they attempt suicide.
It’s mostly a matter of statistics. Those factories don’t have a higher risk of suicide than any other job, they just employ so many people that a few suicides a year is inevitable.