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Again, we're talking about a factory that beats its workers[0], faces them down in riots[1], hasn't paid wages on multiple occasions[2], negotiates against mass-worker suicide pacts[3], forces employees into overtime to fatal extremes[4] and blackmails the families of their workers[5].

Maybe, just maybe, giving authoritarian autonomy to a factory complex full of human workers is not a good idea.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20101009065851/http://shanghaiis...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-09-26/foxconn-w...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/mar/29/apple-fox..., https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/24/business/foxconn-offer-protes...

[3] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/900698...

[4] https://archive.is/gT0dZ

[5] https://www.reuters.com/article/china-foxconn-trial/family-o...




Cool I didn't say anything about whether they are good or should have autonomy, I said the suicide rate wasn't high.


Ok. I'll defer your attention to the mass suicide threat and move on then.


Even if you go to the hypothetical extreme of pretending every single one those people committed suicide, it still doesn't give them a high suicide rate overall...




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