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Why Are iPad Factory Workers Killing Themselves?

There have been four suicides on-site at the plant that manufactures the iPad in the last month alone. The factories our electronics come from sound like awful places.

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  • jheller   Why Are iPad Factory Workers Killing ... and thinks it’s WTF  about 2 years ago
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  • the article says 4 *attempted* suicides, that's a pretty significant difference

    Phil R.
    2 years ago
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  • Generic Apple fanboy pro-Apple comment. Blah blah Apple could never do anything wrong or be involved in anyway with anything bad blah blah.

    Rob C.
    2 years ago
  • Let's not forget… the US Postal Service is worse…

    Matt Davis
    2 years ago
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  • Why is everyone picking on the iPad? They named several companies that Foxconn manufactures products for. Also, 4 suicides out of 300,000 workers isn't particularly unusual.

    J.
    2 years ago
  • Well if there are 300,000 employees, the odds are that much higher that some of those employees will be depressed or suicidal - it's like a small city. When I visited Tokyo, I learned that suicides over there are different than in the West - a lot of people kill themselves in public places, because they feel so isolated (paradoxically) by the vast population. It's not a private event, it's a last-ditch effort to connect with other people. Suicides on subway tracks are a problem, for this reason, so perhaps China has a similar prevalence of suicides at work.  Having said all that, the pressure in places like that must be IMMENSE. I'm sure there's no tolerance for errors… it must be a horrible environment. :(  Very, very chilling.

    Davine S.
    2 years ago
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  • the factory sounds like a setting for some sci-fi thriller.

    lchen12345
    2 years ago

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