everyone bitching about Foxconn because of driving employees to suicide the suicide rate at Foxconn during 2010 remained lower...
everyone bitching about Foxconn because of driving employees to suicide
the suicide rate at Foxconn during 2010 remained lower than that of the general Chinese population at the time as well as all 50 states of the United States.
I mean it might be terrible for other reasons, but the suicide rate for its employees appears to be approximately 5% of the national rate??
if any other mental health intervention was that successful it would be mandatory
Is it me or is this statistic comparing people who suicided specifically at the Foxconn building to the stats on all suicides everywhere? Like, if they offed themselves at home they aren’t counted? Seems like the numbers aren’t directly comparable.
They live at work, but yes they aren’t directly comparable.
(because the people working at Foxconn are not a representative sample of the entire population, and farmers tend to kill themselves more than factory workers, so people (particularly women) leaving the countryside and going to work at Foxconn are actually less likely to commit suicide).
good old Foxconn discourse, guess when Apple finally pulls out of China we can pack that up for good as it won’t be morally relevant to us any more.
Honestly I think suicide by leaping from great height might just leave more of an impression on people.
Like at Cornell we had a reputation for suicide even though we had a lower than average rate for our age cohort and a big part of that was we had huge gorges crossed by bridges cutting through campus that some of our suicides made use of, I hear NYU had a similar thing with a multi-story library atrium.
Or think about how the 1929 Wall Street crash is popularly associated with stockbrokers confronted with their losses jumping out of office windows, which resembles one actual case, the suicide rate more broadly being in a trough.