Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad

Re:Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad by nextparadigms on Thursday January 26, 2012 @12:51AM (#3513071)

They're not committing suicide because of the low pay. Nobody is forcing them to take the job so I don't think being paid triple the money would do much to lower the suicide rates. It's the job itself that's making them kill themselves. They can't handle the working conditions or the work itself.

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Re:Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad by ghshephard on Thursday January 26, 2012 @12:55AM (#3513078)

From the wired article:http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/02/ff_joelinchina/all/1

"Out of a million people, 17 suicides isn’t much—indeed, American college students kill themselves at four times that rate."

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Re:Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad by jQueryIsAwesome on Thursday January 26, 2012 @02:30AM (#3513230)

They should wait until the suicide ratio gets more alarming to do something about their employees conditions?

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