[Talisker]

Yep, everybody's heard that lie. So knock yourself out, but until you provide reliable sources that back it up (which you can't do because it's been proven false), I'll stick with the facts as presented by the reliable sources that have already been argued here ad infinitum.

Yeah, because Apple uses the part of Foxconn without the suicide nets.

[dayglored]

> Yeah, because Apple uses the part of Foxconn without the suicide nets.

Gotta admit, that's cute.

Say, have you stopped doing business yet with every American bank where a banker has committed suicide in the past few years? No nets there either... some of 'em landed on metal picket fences, the kind with the spikes sticking up, and it took hours to peel the body off the fence.

http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/01/bankers-suicide-conspiracy/

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=banker+suicides

[Swordmaker]

Yeah, because Apple uses the part of Foxconn without the suicide nets.

We've gone around and around about this before, Talisker, yet you apparently still prefer the false myth over the facts.

The suicide rate at Foxconn, even at its highest in 2010, was 1/4 that of same age groups in the general population of China. . . and 1/8 that of the entire population of China (older Chinese people, as in all populations, tend to kill them selves at a higher rate). It is 1/2 the suicide rate of students of the same ages at Ivy League Universities in the United States of America.

As a matter of fact, you would find it IMPOSSIBLE to find a city in the USA with a population of 650,000 (the number of FoxConn's work force that had only ONE SUICIDE PER MONTH (on a yearly basis), which works out to a suicide rate of 1.85 suicides per 100,000 employees (!), the rate you have your panties in a wad about!

Since that high level, FoxConn has increased its employment numbers to almost 800,000 and the number of suicides has dropped to fewer than TWO a year. in the four years since 2010. One of those years, there were ZERO suicides associated with any of FoxConn's twenty-two plants. That is an unheard of rate in a population so large. . . it's a suicide rate of 0.25 per 100,000 employees per year.

Terry Gou, the CEO of FoxConn installed the suicide nets in 2010 to prevent any more workers from jumping. He had made a mistake by giving the families of the first few jumpers the equivalent of a $50,000 condolence benefit. . . and a few workers decided that their families to whom they were sending support money would better off if they were dead, so they jumped. Gau cancelled the suicide reward money and installed the nets to prevent any more tragedies. It had NOTHING to do with working conditions. Again, if anyone wants to find the facts, they are discoverable, AFTER one wades through the swamp of obfuscation, propaganda and lies.

Facts and truth are powerful things.