Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought and Climate Change

Re:Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought a... by ceejayoz on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @09:37AM (#20564690)

> The difference is those suicides at Foxconn are for one reason only, working conditions.

That's a pretty wild assertion.

Is there a reason to believe that the folks working at Foxconn have otherwise 100% idyllic lives with no divorces, deaths of loved ones, clinical depression, etc.?

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Re:Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought a... by orwin on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @10:37AM (#20565175)

Well, this happened in France circa 2008 in a state company becoming private. The suicide rate was bit superior to the population average, but not that much.

So the CEO argument during trial was to compare the suicide rate to cop's suicide rate and say "that's not too bad". This is dumb. You should compare to the suicide rate in similar company, or if you cna't find similar company in your country, you take the suicide rate 5 years prior and adjust for intangibles. Turns out the suicide rate in telco was way inferior to the population average prior to the "new management" methods. The ex-CEO will probably avoid prison still. But the trial isn't over yet, so anything can happen.

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Re:Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought a... by nottorp on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @03:01PM (#20568033)

Not to mention that there's >1 million of them. There are cities smaller than that. Every kind of deviation from the norm, they probably have one, ten or a hundred of them.

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