But where will Apple find American employees who will work themselves to death?
Literally....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides
Overblown. Suicide rate there is substantially less than the rest of the region. Only reason they’re noted is the concentration and famous name.
No, not literally. The suicide rate among FoxConn's employees is ridiculously LOW compared to almost any where else you could look. Even at the HIGHEST during the spate of suicides during 2010 to 2011, when a total of 18 employees committed suicide from a population of over 750,000 employees over an 18 month period, that suicide rate was less than 1 per 100,000 per year!
It was FAR LOWER than the 11 per 100,000 per year suicide rate among people of the same age cohorts (18 to 32) attending Ivy League Universities in the United States. It's lower than the 19 per 100,000 per year suicide rate among teenagers and young people in general in the US inner cities. Its far, far lower than the 16 per 100,000 per year suicide rate among the Chinese population in general in the same age cohorts.
In addition, the suicides at FoxConn were not at all associated with Apple products but occurred instead at plants assembling Microsoft Xboxes, Nokia cell phones, Sony Play Stations, and HP computers. The plants making Apple products were over 100 miles away. A third-party international investigative organization found that the suicides were not at all involved with working conditions but were, instead associated with things such as mental illness, love-triangles, and financial incentives associated with the large death benefit that Terry Gou, the CEO was awarding the families of employees who died while working at FoxConn, which could total as much as 25 times the yearly earnings of a worker!
Once Gou changed the death benefit policy, the suicides essentially STOPPPED. In 2013, the suicide rate among FoxConn's 1.5 MILLION workers was ZERO! In 2014, there was ONE suicide. . . TWO in all of 2015.
In other words, the claims that there was some kind of suicide effect caused by working for FoxConn on Apple products were entirely BOGUS, ginned up by an organization based in New York City, China Labor Watch, which has been caught multiple time faking videos, mis-translating into English interviews with workers to distort their comments, and essentially pushing their agenda with phony propaganda.
Ben are you still pimping that nonstory? Why don't you worry over our vets killing themselves off at the rate of three a day.
The only way Apple can move here is to robotacize the plants which FoxCon is already doing. Suicide rate among those robots is pretty low I think.