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Re:The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker by TylerE on Monday November 12, 2018 @01:09PM (#18434345)
I hope people would actually do some research before biting on the clickbait. Foxconn has a lower suicide rate than the national average, and compared to working conditions in most of China is virtually first world.

If you want to see REAL human suffering, look to something like the shipbreaking yards in India and Bangladesh.

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Re:The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker by ansible on Monday November 12, 2018 @04:44PM (#18436164)
> If you want to see REAL human suffering, look to something like the shipbreaking yards in India and Bangladesh.

Or the e-waste recycling done in Ghana:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/burning-truth-...

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Re:The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker by JohnJamesRambo on Monday November 12, 2018 @01:50PM (#18434672)
Has the rest of the world had to install nets to catch suicide jumpers?
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Re:The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker by jononor on Monday November 12, 2018 @02:09PM (#18434800)
You know that they have been working many years on a suicide net for the Golden Gate bridge, right? I believe installation began some months ago.
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Re:The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker by ellius on Monday November 12, 2018 @07:01PM (#18437132)
The Golden Gate Bridge is a landmark, not a workplace.
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Re:The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker by Paperweight on Monday November 12, 2018 @02:17PM (#18434861)
We're talking about places where they don't even bother to put up nets because it's cheaper to scrape them off the ground.
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Re:The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker by dtornabene on Monday November 12, 2018 @09:11PM (#18437866)
yeah, not sure you're that familiar with the site this is posted on. Its an anarchist blog/forum that makes exactly zero dollars from advertising. Not sure there's anything I can say that would change or effect the idea that somehow these peoples suffering is something to be sneered at or simply dismissed.
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Re:The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker by pyrale on Monday November 12, 2018 @01:19PM (#18434435)
One could hope this kind of thread was not a place for whataboutism and pain metering.
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