The left sees slavery around every corner yet do not see the irony as they continue their addiction to Apple products made by slave labor working 18 grueling hours a day sitting in factories with suicide nets around it.
Would that meme/trope please die already?
Everyone working at the factories making iPhones chose to be there.
They wanted that job because it paid 3x anything else they could do.
Suicides there are substantially _less_ than the general population.
The nets are there because there’s enough people working in those buildings that it does happen, and something can be done about it (unlike the much higher rates in surrounding areas, spread out enough that suicides aren’t associated with anywhere in particular).
Sigh.
The workers at FoxConn's Apple Assembly lines are limited by Apple's contracts with FoxConn to just 12 hours per day and 60 hours per week, including overtime. They are not slave laborers. Every single one of them applied for the job they are doing and was selected from thousands of applicants.
Apple is only one of more than 550 Consumer Electronic brand names that have their products assembled at a FoxConn as contract manufacturer. In fact, shanover, not a single Apple assembly line worker was involved in that spate of 18 suicides in 18 months among Foxconn's 750,000 workers in 2010-2011 that gave rise to the MYTH of a suicide problem at FoxConn.
In actual fact those workers were from assembly lines making HP Computers, Sony Play Stations, Nokia phones, and Microsoft Xboxes. . . and the suicide rate worked out to less than 1 per 100,000 per year. Compare that to the 11 per 100,000 per year among people in the same age cohorts attending Ivy League Universities in the United States. . . or the 10 per 100,000 per year in the same age cohort among the Chinese population in general!
In other words, a Chinese young person was TEN TIMES LESS LIKELY to commit suicide if he or she were working at FoxConn than if not. It was a bogus crisis ginned up by Apple's competitors to spread FUD just as you are spreading now.
Outside organizations brought in by FoxConn found that the suicides that did occur were not at all related to working conditions but were all caused by the prosaic reasons people commit suicide. . . psychological reasons such as love triangles, homesickness, financial reasons, mental illness, being bullied, etc.