gnasher729
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Clearly there is something very wrong with this factory. Suicides, strikes, riots, explosions, etc - what's next?. Some reports have suggested that the riot started because Foxconn guards beat an employee. It seems that no matter what Apple does to try and monitor the situation at this plant it just isn't working. I think it's about time Apple started to consider building their own factories in China.
Foxconn employs more than 1.2 million people in China. Guess what happens when you have 1.2 million employees: Anything that happens sometimes will happen. Now let's go through this:
Suicides: About 40,000 per year in the USA. I think 27 were reported at Foxconn. If the USA reduced their rate to the same as Foxconn, they would save more than 30,000 lives every year.
Strikes: Have there been strikes? Possibly. I don't know how old you are, but you live in a place that knows everything there is to know about strikes.
Riots: Look, this may be annoying to you, but did you have any riots recently in your country?
Explosions: There was an explosion in one of the many Foxconn plants. The same week there was a very similar explosion at Intel in the USA.
"Foxconn guards beat an employee": Any evidence? Especially any evidence that such a thing happened before the riot started? Just because you read it on the internet doesn't mean it's true.