Hard decisions

[bleistift2@sopuli.xyz]

You shifted the topic to the internet.

[trickdacy@lemmy.world]

No, I used it as an easy example of why it doesn't really make sense to say that use of something doesn't equate to approval of everything behind it. And also as example of something one doesn't have much choice about.

[hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I want a Fairphone next soooooooo bad.

[faerbit@sh.itjust.works]

Yea, those nets are really working!

[dragontypewyvern@midwest.social]

Yeah the nets are cheap, what they'll spend on is union busting.

[redditrefugee69@lemmynsfw.com]

I upvoted this post from my name brand flagship phone.

[fizz@lemmy.nz]

Yeah the report I mentioned found long work hours, health and safety, abusive management to be an issue. Foxcon seems to have addressed a lot of the issues brought up in that report. Even if they didn't its still not slavery or not anything remotely similar.

[gissamittjobb@lemmy.ml]

Is the problem really one of salary when it comes to the suicide nets?

Are the workers driven to suicide for the low pay, or is this actually a matter of horrifyingly bad working conditions?

[smokinliver@sopuli.xyz]

Well I guess a lot can change with money...

The worse people are payed, the more they are prone to exploitation no?

[gissamittjobb@lemmy.ml]

I mean, lots of comparatively wealthy people are under some pretty horrible working conditions, so I don't know that I would call the two tightly linked.

Sure, Foxconn should probably pay at rates that are livable for their workers, but the more acute problem is probably to not drive their workers so hard that they attempt suicide.

[glassware@lemmy.world]

It's mostly a matter of statistics. Those factories don't have a higher risk of suicide than any other job, they just employ so many people that a few suicides a year is inevitable.

[internetexplorer@lemmy.world]

Interesting